{"id":23795,"date":"2018-02-28T14:06:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T22:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=23795"},"modified":"2018-02-28T14:07:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T22:07:21","slug":"cartoon-too-much-foam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=23795","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: “Too Much Foam”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you enjoy these cartoons, and can spare it, please support my Patreon<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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This is one of a couple of cartoons I’ve \u00a0recently written on the subject of abled people putting the disabled up on a pedestal. (After getting some feedback from some disabled advance readers, I’m rethinking how to write the other one). In this case, I ended up focusing on privileged anxiety, always a gold mine for comedy.<\/p>\n

Lately, I’ve been doing life drawing from nude models (there’s a place near my house which has a monthly drawing session), and I’ve been using brown paper and drawing with both black and white ink. (You can see a couple of those drawings here.<\/a>) I’ve enjoyed having the white for highlights so much, I’m trying to bring that approach into my cartoons.<\/p>\n

The coloring approach in this cartoon is very similar to last week’s. I want to include color – it really helps make a cartoon pop, and many readers prefer color. But I also don’t want to cover up the black and white linework, which is my favorite part. And I don’t want to do “this object would be brown, so I’ll color it brown” literal coloring, because once I do that my cartoons look so similar to other people’s cartoons.<\/p>\n

So I’m always trying to find a way to eat my cake and have it too, when it comes to color. I hope you like how it looks (but let me know if you don’t).<\/p>\n

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TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON<\/strong><\/p>\n

Panel one<\/strong> shows a woman in a polka-dot dress sitting in a coffee shop, glaring down at her cappuccino.<\/p>\n

WOMAN (thought): Aw, darn it. They put too much foam on my cappuccino!<\/p>\n

Panel 2<\/strong> shows a bald man in the foreground, sitting at a different table, reading something on his smartphone. He is sitting on a power chair, and he has no right arm. There’s a cappuccino in front of him. In the background, we can see the woman from panel one, staring at the bald man with a shocked expression.<\/p>\n

WOMAN (thought): Oh wow – that guy has no legs and only one arm! How does he even get out of bed in the morning?<\/p>\n

Panel 3<\/strong> shows the woman, head in hands, looking aghast.<\/p>\n

WOMAN (thought): He has to psend every minute of his life figuring out how to manage with just one arm… and I’m thinking about foam! I SUCK!<\/p>\n

Panel 4<\/strong> shows the bald man again. He has picked up his cappuccino and is looking annoyed.<\/p>\n

MAN (thought): They put too much foam on my cappuccino!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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