Mentioned before, there are cartoon generators on the web. I use cartoons in an experiential process, (with the apt program title Teaching Cartoons,) so I took to these web tools like a kitty to tuna. I’ve posted an old one, actually one of two on my little used stripgenerator blog.
One of my favorite cartoon tools is Build Your Own Meat. The droll cartoonist Max Cannon has reconfigured many of the set of characters he uses for his Red Meat and used them for the simple 3 panel exchange that is the format for BYOM. Unfortunately, automated spammers have taken over the archive. It used to be a laugh riot because it would showcase the last fifty DIY Red Meat.
Visit Max’s web site. He has a pointed message about the newspaper publishing trends and comics.
Cartoon versions of Mullah Nasruddin stories–collected by Idries Shah–are a favorite goal of my efforts.
Here’s one I banged out using appropriated text from an archival exchange (from this year) between two netdynam email list members.
Teaching cartoons @squareONE
not only are there words for foreigners which pull no punches (gaijin=’out-person’), even amongst themselves, there are strict boundaries between every thing and every group. it is how the place works. and the ‘mind’ also. see e.g. “straightjacket society” – that’s a pretty basic b/w intro though.
so what simon was saying seemed extremely old hat to me – having lived more than 10 years in japan as an obvious outsider, yet eventually being accepted in my roles there – when i recognised what they were.