Student’s Name
Course/Number
Analyzing Cartoons
The adroitness of an effective cartoonist is not only the capacity to draw well, but also the aptness to distill a joke, an idea or a concept into images and short words that convey the message. It is this communicating short-cutting that make the cartoon present a short message very effectively. In this case, the cartoons with balloon message “Look what I found” is part of a series which commences the controversial perception of the two characters. The two characters are holding contrasting ideas on one another’s’ decision and choice to pick on different items associating their internal deliberations on one other’s physical look. This series of cartoons presents thoughts and not audio utterances.
These series of cartoons uses communication balloons, understatements and irony to present the contrasting perceptions. Communication balloons accompany the images in each pictorial frame and communicate the language of the cartoons. While some pictorial frames have independent balloon messages that communicate individual thought, coherent and coinciding thoughts are presented in the same balloon.
Each human representation cartoon underestimates the choice of each other. The male representation cartoon perceives the female representation cartoon’s choice as trash while the later, in equal measure, believe that the former’s shell choice is madness in connection to the environment. Indeed it is ironical that each cartoon apprehends the reason for their choice while internally they wonder and despises the choice of the other. These three cartoon techniques aid the readers to understand the meaning of the series of the cartoon as well as disclosing the controversy in the presented thoughts as opposed to the literal meaning of the phrases.
References
Collomosse, John P., David Rowntree, and Peter M. Hall. “Video Analysis for Cartoon-like Special Effects.” BMVC. 2003.