seeing
Original: seeing on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Child (off-panel, curly orange-haired kid): What's your favorite thing about being a kid?
Woman with long dark hair and round glasses: Seeing clearly!
Panel 2:
Woman: As adults get older, their vision gets worse. They start seeing rough edges as smooth. They see distinct features as having gradients and see partial colorations as filling out whole regions.
Panel 3:
Woman: That's why adults think kids' drawings are inaccurate, when they're photorealistic.
Panel 4:
Child (looking up, annoyed): The fuck are you talking about.?
[The woman now appears drawn in a crude, scribbly, childlike style — stick-like arms, scratchy hair, angry eyebrows over her round glasses — i.e. how a child would actually "photorealistically" depict her.]
Votey:
Text (in a speech bubble, upside-down): So sad
[A face is drawn upside-down in the same crude childlike scribble style.]
Child (off-panel, curly orange-haired kid): What's your favorite thing about being a kid?
Woman with long dark hair and round glasses: Seeing clearly!
Panel 2:
Woman: As adults get older, their vision gets worse. They start seeing rough edges as smooth. They see distinct features as having gradients and see partial colorations as filling out whole regions.
Panel 3:
Woman: That's why adults think kids' drawings are inaccurate, when they're photorealistic.
Panel 4:
Child (looking up, annoyed): The fuck are you talking about.?
[The woman now appears drawn in a crude, scribbly, childlike style — stick-like arms, scratchy hair, angry eyebrows over her round glasses — i.e. how a child would actually "photorealistically" depict her.]
Votey:
Text (in a speech bubble, upside-down): So sad
[A face is drawn upside-down in the same crude childlike scribble style.]
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a woman with long dark hair and round glasses sits while an off-panel curly orange-haired child asks, "What's your favorite thing about being a kid?" The child answers itself in a separate bubble, "Seeing clearly!" Panel 2: the woman explains, "As adults get older, their vision gets worse. They start seeing rough edges as smooth. They see distinct features as having gradients and see partial colorations as filling out whole regions." Panel 3: "That's why adults think kids' drawings are inaccurate, when they're photorealistic." Panel 4: the child, now looking annoyed, says, "The fuck are you talking about.?" — and the woman is suddenly rendered in a crude, scribbly childlike drawing style (stick arms, scratchy hair, angry eyebrows over her round glasses), the visual punchline that a child's "inaccurate" drawing is supposedly the photorealistic truth. Votey (bonus panel): a face drawn in the same crude childlike scribble style, shown upside-down, with an upside-down speech bubble reading "So sad."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.