A quick Google search reveals 11 definitions for the word frame. But for a cartoonist, only one definition matters: "to produce false evidence against (an innocent person) so that they appear guilty." Cartooning is a cutthroat, winner-takes-all business, after all. And a business that, coincidently, involves drawing little doodles inside of boxes called frames.
This week's theme is frames. Frames we hang artwork in. Frames we cartoon in. And me framing one of this week's contributors for MURDER. Unrelatedly, I may or may not have misplaced a bloody knife. If you find it, please let me know.
- Navied
I was once told by a wise woman (my mom) that life’s all about perspective. One may see this toon as bidding goodbye to a security deposit, but I say it’s high art. Maybe it’s both? How you frame it (here, quite literally) is what makes it priceless.
This is a 2020 comic, from my series Proust & Panda. We were fresh into quarantine; remember? Oh, you’d rather not, because it was horrible? Sounds about right.
Every time I go to the art gallery I spend less time looking at the paintings, and more time creeping on the people looking at the paintings. If they read the little blurb under the painting and then nod knowingly, my eyes roll more than the ones in this cartoon.
My original version of this cartoon featured naked ladies/cyborgs in traditional (left wall) and digital (back wall) frames. (Remember when NFTs were first a thing and bros were just buying up tons of robot boobs? As if that was any different , like, all of art history.) Anyway, Navied told me he liked this laser cats version better, so here you go.
I love drawing frames in cartoon homes. But then the problem is, once I add 15 frames onto someone's wall, now I have to decide what the hell is going to go inside them! Luckily when it's a grandma's home, it's easy. Just think of everything that's at Marshall's.
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