2011-10-28
Original: 2011-10-28 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
This is a wordless, abstract "experimental" comic. It contains no legible written text or dialogue. It is a tall vertical strip of small figures interacting, each accompanied by speech or thought bubbles that are filled with abstract scribbles, swirls, hatching, and patterns instead of words.
Reading top to bottom across the strip:
- A figure stands beside a large scribble-filled speech bubble; a smaller figure looks up at it.
- A big patterned/hatched bubble floats above, with a small figure and a thought bubble.
- A row of figures each emit speech bubbles filled with different swirl and stripe patterns.
- More figures with cloud-like and concentric-circle patterned bubbles.
- A central figure with a wide-eyed, surprised expression flanked by figures holding or gesturing toward swirling, spiral-filled bubbles; one bubble is densely scribbled/dark.
- A figure stands under a long horizontal cloud of dense scribbles.
- Several more figures alternate down the strip, each paired with large abstract patterned bubbles (swirls, clouds, lozenge shapes).
- At the bottom, a figure stands beneath a large oval scribble bubble while a small figure looks up.
There is no readable text anywhere in the main comic.
Votey: A close-up drawing of the cartoonist's face (a person with wavy, flame-like hair) looking sheepish and sweating, hands clasped nervously near their chin. Caption text above reads: "ME, WHENEVER I DO AN EXPERIMENTAL COMIC".
Reading top to bottom across the strip:
- A figure stands beside a large scribble-filled speech bubble; a smaller figure looks up at it.
- A big patterned/hatched bubble floats above, with a small figure and a thought bubble.
- A row of figures each emit speech bubbles filled with different swirl and stripe patterns.
- More figures with cloud-like and concentric-circle patterned bubbles.
- A central figure with a wide-eyed, surprised expression flanked by figures holding or gesturing toward swirling, spiral-filled bubbles; one bubble is densely scribbled/dark.
- A figure stands under a long horizontal cloud of dense scribbles.
- Several more figures alternate down the strip, each paired with large abstract patterned bubbles (swirls, clouds, lozenge shapes).
- At the bottom, a figure stands beneath a large oval scribble bubble while a small figure looks up.
There is no readable text anywhere in the main comic.
Votey: A close-up drawing of the cartoonist's face (a person with wavy, flame-like hair) looking sheepish and sweating, hands clasped nervously near their chin. Caption text above reads: "ME, WHENEVER I DO AN EXPERIMENTAL COMIC".
Alt text
A tall, wordless black-and-white comic strip. It is an abstract "experimental" comic: a vertical sequence of small simply-drawn human figures, each paired with speech or thought bubbles that are filled not with words but with abstract scribbles, swirls, spirals, stripes, hatching, and cloud-like patterns. Figures converse, gesture, and react to one another's patterned bubbles all the way down the strip; near the middle a wide-eyed figure looks startled between others holding densely scribbled, dark and spiraling bubbles, and at the bottom a small figure gazes up at a large oval scribble bubble. No legible text appears anywhere in the main comic. Votey: a close-up of the cartoonist's own face, drawn with wavy flame-like hair, looking sheepish and sweating with hands clasped nervously. The caption reads, "ME, WHENEVER I DO AN EXPERIMENTAL COMIC" — the joke being that he is anxious about whether the abstract, text-free comic above will land.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.