Literature Geekery
I’ve been reading more and more of The New Yorker lately, so I’ve been seeing a lot of their famous one panel comics that have been in their pages for years. These cartoons are selected quite carefully, as shown in a recent article about the cartoon editor of the New Yorker; from what I can tell, the cartoons are selected to be subtle, clever, and not laugh out-loud funny. They are therefore things you can glance at more than once and find entertainment.
So, I present to you my first makeshift cartoon in the style of the New Yorker. It was conceived while brushing my teeth not long ago (please refer to Ze Frank’s Where the %$@# Do Ideas Come From?), and as a first draft idea, has absolutely no quality control applied. You have been warned. I envision two first graders on a playground, in the midst of an altercation, with one saying “A pox, a chicken pox upon both your houses!”