# I created a new cartoon **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 7, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-created-a-new-cartoon/432552 "2008-01-07T01:09:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-created-a-new-cartoon/432552/1 "2008-01-07T01:09:49Z")
I just drew this cartoon with Paint. It can be viewed [at my art page](https://oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/user/akentisa/Filemanager_Public_Files/ART) along with some other drawings of mine. What sayest thou? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-created-a-new-cartoon/432552/2 "2008-01-07T01:12:53Z")
Your link requires a password. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-created-a-new-cartoon/432552/3 "2008-01-07T01:15:55Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] What sayest thou? [/QUOTE] I say thee NAY! All the Hoary Hosts Of Hoggoth & the Shining Legions of Asgard & All-Father Odin cannot help me gain access to an Art page that doth requireth a password! Any who calleth me a liar is a base varlet! ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-created-a-new-cartoon/432552/4 "2008-01-07T01:18:20Z")
There - it no longer requires a password. What sayest thou? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-created-a-new-cartoon/432552/5 "2008-01-07T01:22:45Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] There - it no longer requires a password. What sayest thou? [/QUOTE] I say thee nay. Thy third image is false and base, and my noble computer shall not loadeth it. I suspect thee of being a spy from Járnvid! HAVE AT THEE! ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-created-a-new-cartoon/432552/6 "2008-01-07T01:31:46Z")
There. The image is now viewable. What sayest thou now then? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Real\_Thing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@The\_Real\_Thing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Real_Thing)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-created-a-new-cartoon/432552/7 "2008-01-07T01:33:11Z")
You did that in Paint? With a mouse? Very nice indeed. I like your other stuff too, particularly the second one down. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-created-a-new-cartoon/432552/8 "2008-01-07T01:34:23Z")
Yeah I did in in Paint and using only the straight-line tool. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-created-a-new-cartoon/432552/9 "2008-01-07T02:52:35Z")
I’m assuming there’s a video game, the knowledge of which would allow me to “get” the joke? The art’s wonderful for a mouse-driven Paint file. And that IS a compliment, even if it sounds snarky…not meant to be. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-created-a-new-cartoon/432552/10 "2008-01-07T02:57:32Z")
Thanks, I’ve been using that technique of just the straight-line tool and the paint bucket for years and years. But as you can see from the other drawings, I usually just use pen or pencil. There’s no specific video game, they’re just supposed to be generic video game “bad guys” like the ones in F.E.A.R. or some such shooter - the comic is poking fun at the fact that there are always a million “health packs” laying all over the place in every shooter, and I was just bemused by the fact that some goon must have had to go around leaving medkits all over the floor. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-created-a-new-cartoon/432552/11 "2008-01-07T23:12:35Z")
Baffling. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-created-a-new-cartoon/432552/12 "2008-01-07T23:27:30Z")
I thought it was pretty funny. I do find the veiny forearms of the characters in your other drawings terrifying, though. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-created-a-new-cartoon/432552/13 "2008-01-08T00:37:44Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] I thought it was pretty funny. I do find the veiny forearms of the characters in your other drawings terrifying, though. [/QUOTE] This is pretty much everyone’s reaction to them. What can I say - once I start adding veins, it’s hard for me to stop. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-created-a-new-cartoon/432552/14 "2008-01-08T02:10:04Z")
I liketh muchly the schnozz on thy last likeness. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-created-a-new-cartoon/432552/15 "2008-01-08T08:06:35Z")
Those are veins? I thought they were tendrils, or something. The last pic was my favorite, maybe because the long sleeves remove any opportunity to put climbing vines on the arms. I feel kinda bad about bagging on your pics, **Argent Towers** , so let me just say that any single drawing on that page far outstrips anything I could manage, even with tracing paper. So the veins aren’t my cup of tea - who cares? Anybody prepared to say whether they’re anatomically correct, or even plausible, though? ETA: I only kinda sorta got the joke in the cartoon, btw.