{"id":25607,"date":"2020-04-01T15:59:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T22:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=25607"},"modified":"2020-04-08T00:34:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T07:34:23","slug":"cartoon-sometimes-it-feels-like-coronavirus-has-always-been-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=25607","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: Sometimes It Feels Like Coronavirus Has Always Been With Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I left the house this morning to put something in the mail. (Don’t worry, I didn’t touch the mailbox; I took a paper towel with me so I could use that to open the mailbox and then throw it away).<\/p>\n

I honestly don’t know what was in the envelope; I made it my project this morning to clear the pile of mail off my desk, and I found a sealed envelope, ready to mail. It was a postage paid envelope from a company I do business with, so presumably it’s a form they wanted me to fill out. And I have no memory of the form, or filling it out, whatsoever.<\/p>\n

I could have opened the envelope to see what it was, but then I’d just have find a new envelope and what about postage and it just seemed like too much work, so I decided to trust me from three months ago and mail it.<\/p>\n

My point is, this walk to the mailbox is the first time I’ve been further than my own yard in over a week. It feels so odd to be so housebound. And that’s a feeling, I’m sure, that lots of you reading this can now relate to. I actually can’t even say anymore when I started staying in the house. I mean, I know as a matter of logic around when I must have began, but I don’t remember it.<\/p>\n

So thinking about this feeling, led to this cartoon. I hope you like it!<\/p>\n

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The art for this was fun to draw (and it felt good to be able to successfully concentrate on drawing a cartoon!). I think that Mrs. Macbeth in panel 2 came out especially well. .<\/p>\n

My friend Frank Young writes a blog about the works of the cartoonist John Stanley, who is most famous for his Little Lulu comics from the 40s through the 60s. I was reading this blog post<\/a>, collecting some of Stanley’s dialogless cartoons, and I was struck by how much I liked the very simple colors Stanley used for some cartoons. I didn’t directly steal those colors, but they definitely inspired the color choices in this cartoon.<\/p>\n

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Stay well and stay safe, folks! I hope everyone is getting through this all right. See you next cartoon.<\/p>\n

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

This cartoon has four panels, each showing a different scene.<\/p>\n

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

Most of this panel is taken up by very large, rough lettering, the title of the cartoon. “SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE CORONAVIRUS HAS ALWAYS BEEN WITH US.”<\/p>\n

In the bottom of the comic, a woman is leaning on her elbows, looking wistfully out an upper floor window of a house.<\/p>\n

WOMAN (thought): I can’t remember the last time I put on pants.<\/p>\n

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

In the foreground, a woman in a Shakespearean-style gown is frantically washing her hands and yelling. Behind her, a man peeks through a doorway, holding up a forefinger in a “making a point” gesture and speaking very cheerfully. They are Lady Macbeth and Macbeth.<\/p>\n

LADY MACBETH: OUT, DAMNED SPOT! OUT I SAY!<\/p>\n

MACBETH: Remember to do that for at least twenty seconds, hon!<\/p>\n

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

The panel shows several people hanging on crosses in Rome sometime in the first century. In the foreground, a well-off looking Roman man, dressed in robes, is giving an order to a Roman soldier, who is wearing a helmet and carrying a large wooden mallet. In the background, one of the people hanging on a cross speaks cheerfully towards the two in the foreground.<\/p>\n

ROMAN DUDE: Make sure the crosses are six feet apart.<\/p>\n

MAN ON CROSS: Thank you for caring!<\/p>\n

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

Inside a cave, a cartoon caveman, wearing a shirt-thing made out of some animal with a spotted pattern on its fur, and carrying a big rough club, is speaking to a laptop computer which is open on top of a boulder. On the laptop’s screen, we can see another caveman. The first caveman, slapping a hand to his forehead, has a distressed expression.<\/p>\n

CAVEMAN: I haven’t left my cave in weeks!<\/p>\n

CAVEMEN ON LAPTOP: Me either!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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