Podstack!
Cartoons about podcasts, podcasting and everyone and their dog having a podcast.
Oh, hello there! It’s me,
, your editor for this week’s edition of Toonstack. Whether you're a podcast fan, radio listener, or one of those lunatics who walks around listening to your own thoughts while you fold laundry, I think you're going to passively enjoy the cartoons on offer this week on the theme of: Podcasting.I started a podcast back in 2006 (hold your applause) about my hometown in Perth, Western Australia. It failed, dismally. My biggest error wasn't being hilariously early to the podcast game; it was making the show about a city in which nothing happens. It lasted about 9 episodes before I ran out of things to report on. (I peaked at Episode #5: “Guy on my street stole a segway but returned it because he felt bad.")
Seventeen years on, you can now listen to my podcast about coming up with cartoons like the ones below, right here. You're welcome.
Jason Chatfield
The history on this one is fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure this is in one of the chapters on "On the Origin of Podcasts by Means of Natural Selection".
Hilary Campbell
I don't often listen to podcasts. But when I do, people die.
*this was rejected by the New Yorker for being "too dark."
Jason Adam Katzenstein
Cartoonists love podcasts. We draw all day, and it helps to have those sweet, sweet parasocial friends. Give these tennis balls a mic, and I'd listen to them have this conversation for three hours.
Amy Kurzweil
As someone who listens to a lot of podcasts about a lot of its, I have an internal rule limiting myself to one "I heard this on a podcast" comment per conversation. (Yes it's hard. But I am a beacon of self-control.) I am, however, allowed to talk your ear off without restraint about all the books I read about all the its.
Kendra Allenby
It’s scientifically proven that having a podcast automatically makes you more interesting, more dateable, and atones for any sins you may have committed, allowing you to buy your way into heaven with a bit of effort and a recording of your voice instead of the classic method of buying indulgences.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
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I am a grateful student of Amy’s Patreon class. One of the sessions inspired this podcast cartoon. https://open.substack.com/pub/chuckrussell/p/using-diminishing-returns?r=1tnnx&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post