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When Social Media Influencers Get Married

A lot of weddings I’ve been to have a designated hashtag to collect pictures or posts. Given I’ve been dipping my toes into social media to post these comics, I thought it would be pretty absurd to apply the same level of hashtags that a lot of social media posts have to a wedding context. Of course, I’m now a hypocrite because now I also post a large number of hashtags.
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Tyrannosaurus Rx

I got the inspiration for this comic from the New York Times crossword, where a clue (or solution) said “Tyrannosaurus Rx”. Eventually I hit on this idea. Here is a compressed time lapse of the creation of this comic:
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Dutch Tilting at Windmills

A “Dutch tilt” or “Dutch angle” is a film technique that involves rotating the camera so that the horizon line isn’t level. (Kudos to my brother Nathan for telling me about it). The following video uses a scene from Mission: Impossible to illustrate why and how it’s used: I am still learning the “Comic Draw” app, which I really like, but whose screen recording functionality is much flakier than Procreate.
image from Fun With Perspective

Fun With Perspective

Here is the original sketch I did in Procreate:
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Teenage Mutant Crocodilians

When I watched Tiger King, there was a section about dead crocodiles. One of the interview subjects described them as “Crocodilians”; I thought that was a funny turn of phrase. Later I had a dream in which I heard the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song with Crocodilians substituted for Ninja Turtles. By the way, it turns out crocodilians is a real word and not a neologism; see Crocodilia on Wikipedia.
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