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Originally Posted by Old smart
It looks to me like a lot of intent went into the cartoon. Why would the cartoonist choose to show the back cover of the news magazine when by reversing the frame the front cover could have been shown? And why is the shown side in such detail, even the form of the rounded lettering? It is the most detailed thing anywhere in the frame. And why a smart, when something else could easily have been used, front cover or back? Is it a metaphor for what is wrong and what may be right?
The character reading the news magazine is portraying “gloomy, recession, troubled, downturn and pessimistic.” I don’t think the back cover is so much an additional notation that the US auto industry is going to Hell in a hand basket or anything political, but more broadly that our national woes stem from not thinking and acting “smart.”
I guess it is up to we “smart people” to save the country from itself!
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Just for interest I emailed Greg Evans this morning and posited basically the above and asked if I "got" it or "missed" it. This what he returned:
"Dave,
Nothing that complex or intellectual. Just me, amusing myself. I
often put little "eye candy" things in my strips; images or words
that interest me. The smart definitely interests me - in fact, I'm on
the reservation list.
-greg"
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