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This is another page from my latest comic book, Slap Happy Comix (tentative title). I may yet change some of the colors. I'm still learning the whole coloring comics thing. I very much prefer to create comics in black and white, but I've committed to doing this next book in full color so I'm soldiering on with it.
The comic book is going to be a collection of silly, disconnected short stories with all different characters. It'll be kind of like the ensemble comics from the 60's and 70's or Mad Magazine or Nickelodeon Magazine. However, now that I look over all the finished pages I see there was a sort of theme to it all. Nearly all the stories in this book have to do with anthropomorphism, which is a fancy pants word for giving human characteristics to non-human story elements, an essential aspect to cartooning. It's a strange concept to explore because once you allow for a thing to have a human-ish face and consciousness a whole host of bizarre possibilities open up to any story teller if one were willing to push that to it's extreme conclusions.
Now that I've noticed this as a theme throughout my book I may put a wrapper story around the whole thing calling out to it. Maybe it'll seem like that was my goal all along and I'll appear much smarter than I really am! Hmmmm....
