knowing
Original: knowing on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A balding man drives a red car. He thinks:
Man (thought): I DON'T KNOW SHIT, AND PEOPLE LIKE ME ARE RUNNING THE WORLD.
Panel 2:
The same man, now older, sits on a couch eating from a bowl. He thinks the same thing:
Man (thought): I DON'T KNOW SHIT, AND PEOPLE LIKE ME ARE RUNNING THE WORLD.
Panel 3:
The man, older still, stands in a garden holding a shovel. He thinks the same thing again:
Man (thought): I DON'T KNOW SHIT, AND PEOPLE LIKE ME ARE RUNNING THE WORLD.
Panel 4:
The man, now very old, stands far off in a distant field. In the foreground, two people talk.
First person: WHY DO OLD MEN ALWAYS SEEM SO FAR AWAY?
Second person: SENILITY, I GUESS.
Votey:
A thought bubble rises from a roughly-sketched, barely-drawn figure (mostly just a few wobbly lines).
Thought: ALSO PEOPLE WHO CAN'T DRAW CARS HAVE DECADES-LONG CAREERS IN THIS ARTS...
A balding man drives a red car. He thinks:
Man (thought): I DON'T KNOW SHIT, AND PEOPLE LIKE ME ARE RUNNING THE WORLD.
Panel 2:
The same man, now older, sits on a couch eating from a bowl. He thinks the same thing:
Man (thought): I DON'T KNOW SHIT, AND PEOPLE LIKE ME ARE RUNNING THE WORLD.
Panel 3:
The man, older still, stands in a garden holding a shovel. He thinks the same thing again:
Man (thought): I DON'T KNOW SHIT, AND PEOPLE LIKE ME ARE RUNNING THE WORLD.
Panel 4:
The man, now very old, stands far off in a distant field. In the foreground, two people talk.
First person: WHY DO OLD MEN ALWAYS SEEM SO FAR AWAY?
Second person: SENILITY, I GUESS.
Votey:
A thought bubble rises from a roughly-sketched, barely-drawn figure (mostly just a few wobbly lines).
Thought: ALSO PEOPLE WHO CAN'T DRAW CARS HAVE DECADES-LONG CAREERS IN THIS ARTS...
Alt text
A four-panel comic following one man as he ages. In each of the first three panels he has the same thought: "I don't know shit, and people like me are running the world." Panel 1: a balding man drives a red car. Panel 2: he's older, sitting on a couch eating from a bowl. Panel 3: older still, standing in a garden holding a shovel. Panel 4: now very old, he stands far away in a distant field while two people in the foreground talk—one asks "Why do old men always seem so far away?" and the other answers "Senility, I guess." Votey aftercomic: a thought bubble floats above a deliberately crude, barely-sketched figure, reading "Also people who can't draw cars have decades-long careers in this arts..."—a self-deprecating jab from the cartoonist about his own car drawing.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.