Cartooning

When I was in high school, I attended a 1-day workshop on cartooning. I remember learning that all you need to do is pick something familiar and change something about it. The disjunction makes it funny, butf it's really smart it also makes a profound point about an incongruous world. There's a good example in the latest New Yorker, recalling an iconic image of a little fish about to be eaten by a bigger one, which, unawares, is about to be the prey of a larger, and so on. Today all fish are small fry in their own ocean, victims of our plastic predators. But this one brings back another memory too, an earlier New Yorker cartoon playing off the same iconic image, which I used in the introduction for my reader The Problem of Evil, all those years ago.