{"id":24181,"date":"2018-08-01T17:42:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T00:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24181"},"modified":"2021-09-13T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T16:12:11","slug":"cartoon-i-have-been-silenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24181","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: I Have Been Silenced!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This cartoon has four panels, plus a small “kicker” panel beneath the bottom of the cartoon.<\/p>\n

PANEL 1
\nAn older man wearing glasses, sitting behind a desk, is talking to an intense man with a large black beard and wearing a suit jacket but no tie. We’ll call him “Blackbeard.”
\nGLASSES: We’re dropping your column. Many readers think you’re just too extreme.
\nBLACKBEARD: I have been silenced!<\/em><\/p>\n

PANEL 2
\nBlackbeard is standing on stage behind a lectern, holding a hand high in the air as he declames. There’s a huge audience listening to him.
\nBLACKBEARD: I have been silenced!<\/em><\/p>\n

PANEL 3
\nA newspaper lies on a table, near a coffee mug and a spoon. The newspaper is The Washington Post. A front page story shows a photo of Blackbeard talking, and a headline that says “I Have Been Silenced!”<\/p>\n

PANEL 4
\nWe are looking at a flatscreen TV. The TV shows Blackbeard appearing on Fox News. Blackbeard is yelling. An off-camera interviewer speaks.
\nINTERVIEWER: …here with his new book, “I have been silenced<\/em>.”
\nBLACKBEARD: I have been silenced!<\/em><\/p>\n

KICKER PANEL BELOW BOTTOM OF STRIP
\nBarry the cartoonist is talking to Blackbeard.
\nBARRY: It seems–
\nBLACKBEARD: STOP SILENCING ME!<\/p>\n

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