Toonbots archive - episode published 20041011
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As it is a truism that obscurity reflects perspicacity and innovation, the
metacartoonist demonstrates that his new obscurity technique is unstoppable:
as the Taino petroglyph is a relatively fresh icon in the Internet's memetic
context, and yet simultaneously arrives with a thousand years of iconographic
association unknown to the median ursine (irregardless of hattedness), it bears
an unescapable parallelism to the metacartooning framework itself; the use,
then, of such an icon of unbridled obscurity can only serve to enlighten the
careful devotee of the Metacartooning Tao.
Note: this storyline is continued from 20011123. Note to self: design linking and indexing system for the archive, which is unwieldy.
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The script used to make this toon:
<cartoon height="900" width="700" rowformat="1"> <panel> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="blue">MEANWHILE, BACK AT (A) STORY LINE:</caption> <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="red">As I was saying, we drove back to the Kremlin, had a Defenestration Day breakfast that couldn't be beat, went to bed and didn't get up till the very next day, when...</caption> </panel> <panel> <character name="fidel"/> <character name="mao"/> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="red" size="10">Sacre bleu, Mao, it feels as though we slept for three years!</caption> <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="red" size="10">I'm just looking forward to seeing who'll be Officer -- </caption> </panel> <panel> <character name="birdguy"/> <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">... when we got a phone call (represented iconically by physical presence) from Officer Obie. He said:</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="green">Kid, we found your name on a Siberian hamster at the bottom of half a ton of Web cartoonists, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it.</caption> </panel> <panel> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red">Is ... is that a bird on your head?</caption> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="green">Well, duh.</caption> <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="blue">NEXT: MORE CONTINUITY!</caption> </panel> </cartoon> @@ |
