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Banana Split Decision

This is based on a true story. I am trying to not just use ‘dead weight’ lines, but instead lines with varying width. Hard to do and clearly room for improvement.
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Bad With Directions

I had the inspiration for this while watching “Mare of Easttown”; there’s a scene in which someone gives really complicated directions to someone else, though the recipient is able to follow them with no problems. Every time I’m ever given verbal directions, I instantly forget them and get lost. Hopefully I’ll never be put in that position… References: The family decal is based on TownTix (Amazon)
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Them Bones
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Private Enterprise School

References: Worksheet modeled after https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dad-heartbroken-to-find-this-answer-on-autistic-sons-class-project/ Ice cream based on https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/magazine/who-made-that-ice-cream-cone.html by Jens Mortensens
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Famous Greek Column Types

First three columns are based off of illustrations from here: https://firstclassbp.com/column-types/, Dorling Kindersley/Getty Images
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Dream Job

Color palette adapted from Chad Ashley’s palettes on Twitter, which in turn are adapted from Dieter Rams. In case it’s not clear, this is making fun of side hustles + Squarespace, and in particular the “5 to 9” debacle.
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Internet Recipes

Little time lapse gif:
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Rumination Day

“Unfinished work” - “Am I living up to my potential” - “Existential angst” back to bad dreams. Caption: “I have 4 brain compartments to extract as much worry as possible”" The core of this idea came from learning that one meaning of “ruminate” is “chew the cud” for ruminants, e.g. cows and goats, and that “ruminant” comes from their multi-chambered stomachs, including a large “rumen”. From there I had the idea of contrasting my own “rumination” in the form of a brain diagram.
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The Tallest Man in the World

I meant for the ‘pain’ of the tall guy to be physical rather than metaphorical. But both work, I guess. I wanted to do something less detailed, realistic. This may be a bit too far in the cartoony direction. I don’t know. It’s been awhile since I’ve done something non-digital and it’s nice in some ways (tactile, less likely to overwork for hours for minimal improvements) but frustrating in others (much harder to fix mistakes).
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Terms of Service

Kudos to my brother for the punch line (and inspiration for the comic). References: “My Kingdom For A Horse” - Richard III, info from https://literarydevices.net/my-kingdom-for-a-horse/ Paraphrased quotation from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-donald-trump-family-melania-ivanka-lesley-stahl) Picture of Trump in chair from https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/donald-trump-and-family-to-appear-on-60-minutes/, by Chris Albert White House - https://www.whitehouse.gov/ White House - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House#/media/File:White_House_north_and_south_sides.jpg Time lapse:
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