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Cartoons

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  1. We can’t both do Tuesday

    Two characters stand beside a refrigerator calendar. A green character holding a pen says, “We can’t both do Tuesday.” A purple character holds a mug. The calendar has Groceries on Monday, Dentist on Wednesday, Laundry on Friday, and two entries marked Depression on Tuesday, one highlighted green and the other purple.

  2. Do you cycle?

    Two panels at a café. An orange character in yoga clothes holds a coffee. Asked “Do you do yoga?”, they reply “No.” A green character in a cycling helmet and kit sits with a coffee and a bicycle beside them. Asked “Do you cycle?”, they reply “Only so I can wear this.”

  3. On privilege

    Two panels show a green character running in opposite directions in the same wind. Running into the wind, they think “This wind is brutal.” Running with the wind, they think “I’m running really well today.” Leaves, grass and a windsock show the wind blowing in the same direction in both panels.

  4. When you grow up poor

    Three panels. A green character blows a pink bubble while holding a packet labeled GUM. They pull the used gum onto a wrapper above a bin. As they hesitate to throw it away, a smaller version of them appears in a thought bubble with folded arms: “Who do you think you are? There’s still flavour in that.”

  5. A gifted child

    Two panels. A green character holding a mug imagines their child winning a Nobel Prize, becoming a doctor, and becoming a writer. Then the phone rings: “Hello, this is the kindergarten. Your son is a biter.”

  6. Children’s Museum

    A gallery labeled “Children’s Museum” displays four people on plinths. An adult rolling up a sleeve is labeled “Child, Age 41”; a young child inspecting a shoe, “Child, Age 6”; a young adult leaning against a wall, “Child, Age 27”; and an older person reading a book, “Child, Age 82”.

  7. Just Checking the Weather

    Three panels. A green character steps through a smartphone-shaped doorway toward a weather display, saying “Just checking the weather.” Inside, distractions appear: SHOP, WATCH, and CHAT. Surrounded by shopping, videos, and conversation, the character asks, “What did I come in here for?” The weather display is still in the corner.

  8. Going to the Market

    Two vertically stacked panels. A green character holds an empty purse at a fruit stall. The caption says, “Going to the market knowing you can’t buy anything is rather boring.” Below, the green character has an empty speech bubble while a purple character speaks. The caption says, “It’s like having a conversation where you can’t say anything.”

  9. C’est la vie

    A four-panel comic: a person sitting on a toilet checks a marked sheet of toilet paper, celebrates a clean length, finds another mark, then tears the paper and drops a piece. The caption reads “C’est la vie.”

  10. Thought + Time ≠ Insight

    Thought + Time ≠ Insight. A diagram shows thought plus air becoming development: a brain grows a sprout in an open beaker. Thought minus air becomes brooding: the brain sits in a closed jar with condensation and mould. Fig. 1. Thought under two conditions.

  11. It is a truth universally acknowledged…

    A woman in Regency dress sits at a laptop, with her chin in her hand and an empty purse beside her.
    It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of no fortune, must be in want of a job.