When you draw comic strips in the hope of newspaper syndication, they all have to be the size and shape of the ones in the newspaper. If the syndicates had, in fact, catered to the younger crowd they claimed they wanted as readers, everyone would have had to turn their papers ninety degrees to the left to read today’s cartoon. That would have been fun. Instead, I’ve done it for you here in the present day on the wonderful web. When I run out of these cartoons that were done for the syndicates, I think I’ll draw them in different sized boxes for a change. Would that be okay with everyone?
Why limit Hubris to boxes? Why not polygons or circles and ovals? “Think outside the box”!
Because of the negative spaces, of course! Seriously, now I gotta do some weird shapes just to prove the point.
Hey, you know all about “weird shapes”, I’m sure! You’ve seen my face!
I had the same experience with Winnie the Pooh at Disney World once…