5-year-old drew this comic in the Comic Note Book we picked up at the new Kinokuniya here in Austin, and I was reminded of the great anthology, Abstract Comics.
There is no map
Another Peanuts remix. (More here.)
Teaching the ape
Just for fun, I drew James Tate’s “Teaching The Ape To Write Poems,” from his Selected Poems, as a comic.
Dad comics
Sometimes when the 5-year-old is being really annoying I’ll draw a comic of him to snap him out of it. Then sometimes he’ll ask to draw, too:
I often draw his one-liners as a little single panel comic in my diary:
Sometimes our conversations warrant multiple panels:
Some mornings he will hover over my diary and ask to read all of them. As Camus said, “One has to pass the time somehow…”
Cutting up the comics page
Cutting and pasting comic strips is one of my favorite ways to clear my brain. I especially like cutting up a whole page of the comics section and swapping dialogue from one strip to another. Here’s Blondie with dialogue from Garfield:
Then I love taking the scraps and making new one-panel cartoons:
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