{"id":24777,"date":"2019-03-04T10:46:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T18:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24777"},"modified":"2019-03-04T10:46:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T18:46:03","slug":"cartoon-inheriting-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24777","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: Inheriting The Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This cartoon was drawn by Becky Hawkins<\/a>. who I’ve collaborated with several times before<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Help me make more cartoons: Support my patreon!<\/a> A $1 pledge really helps.<\/p>\n

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Becky and I started work on this comic in December of 2014. I wrote a strip, liked it. I suggested to Becky that she should draw it – very possibly because I hate drawing cars. Becky did a rough sketch of the cartoon, and I emailed it to my editors at Dollars & Sense Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And they had a bunch of suggestions… all of which came down to, the idea of the strip wasn’t coming across to them.<\/p>\n

We tried reworking it and resketching it, but the new version didn’t work either.<\/p>\n

So we put this strip aside and did this one <\/a>for Dollars & Sense<\/em> instead. And every now and then I’d look at the drafts again, because I really liked the idea of this strip, it just wasn’t fitting together right.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to February of 2019, when I looked at the two cartoons and realized that if we took the top two panels of version one, and the bottom two panels of version two, we’d have a strip that worked! How did I never notice that before?<\/p>\n

Becky drew it, and – a first for Becky – colored it on computer.<\/p>\n

I especially love that rabbit in panel 2 – but I have no idea which of us came up with that idea back in 2014. I do know for sure that having the car burst into flames in panel four was Becky’s idea (because she only thought of that last week!). And the amazing 1970s fashions in the first two panels are all Becky.<\/p>\n

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

There are four panels in this cartoon.<\/p>\n

PANEL 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two youngish adults, a man and a woman, are thrilled as they look at a yellow sports car with a big red bow wrapped around it. Their clothes and hairdos both suggest the 1970s.<\/p>\n

MAN: Wow! What a GREAT economy we’ve inherited.<\/p>\n

PANEL 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

The two of them are speeding along in the car, going so fast that the car is several feet above the ground. A rabbit flees in terror. He is grinning; she is throwing a fist into the air.<\/p>\n

MAN: Zoom! ZOOM!<\/p>\n

WOMAN: Whoopie!<\/p>\n

PANEL 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

The same man and woman, but now looking in their 60s (and with updated wardrobe and hair), are standing by the now completely wrecked and smoking car. They’ve put a red bow on the wreckage, and they look very cheerful, maybe even proud. There’s a young man and a young woman, looking like they’re in shock. The older man holds out car keys to the young man.<\/p>\n

MAN: Okay, kids, take the keys! It’s all yours now!<\/p>\n

PANEL 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

The older man and woman talk to each other. In the background, the yellow sports car wreckage has burst into flames; the young woman looks shocked, and the young man, unnoticed by the older couple, is giving them the finger.<\/p>\n

MAN: Why don’t they drive like we did?<\/p>\n

WOMAN: Millennials are so lazy.<\/p>\n

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