Thursday, August 27, 2009

Cartoon Clichés

I got the idea for this one after reading some old cartoon collections from the 1940s. I narrowed it down to six from about 20 re-occurring themes I saw including someone being held up on a street corner, lemmings jumping off a cliff and an optometrist in front of an eye chart. It's odd how these situations became so iconoclastic but apparently you can't use them anymore unless you're being ironic. I wonder who makes those rules. I suspect in twenty years people will groan and grimace at the cutting edge humor of today.

2 comments:

Octav said...

hello

just wanted to let you know that i featured your webcomic on my comics blog...

very nice work!

cheers!


you can check it out on smokingcoolcat.blogspot.com

J. Lemon said...

Oooh! Very cool. Nice blog. Thanks for the plug Octav.