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Cast away this idea - it's lame!

The desert island cartoon is a very classic cartoon category with a long history and a prosperous future (e.g. think of an iPad on such island). The very popular "Desert Island Cartoons" collection proves this fact with 377 examples, and though Carola and his team is doing a great job, I guess there are still some uncredited cartoons of this type on toonpool.com.
For me as a cartoon nerd, I am always searching for the next cartoon frenzy, any cartoon specialty, and this time it is a sub-category of the desert island cartoon, the self-referential desert island cartoon.
creative jones made an excellent cartoon in this genre, yet providing a quite simple idea. "island" was done in December 2008, though Jones got the idea much earlier. He got inspired by cartoon master Gary Larson, or moreover, by the fact that many other cartoonists copy Larson's works: "I was looking over some cartoons of a syndicated cartoonist and noticing how similar he was to Gary Larson. Of course, I have similarities too, yet I try to have my own style and only to have learned from the Far Side. His cartoons were a real knockoff. Gary Larson is the first person I had ever read with a desert island cartoon and seeing the other artist's version got me thinking of how lame it was compared to Far side."
We had several issues on toonpool.com where artists uploaded cartoons which equaled classic works by Larson, Addams etc. in some ways, and it was not easy to handle this. But that's another story. creative jones thought it would be funny for him to draw a lame desert island cartoon, too - though I don't think he succeeded in drawing a lame cartoon.
If you compare the guy on the island with the artist's avatar, you can see similarities. creative jones: "It got me thinking, if I were stuck on a tiny island like that, what would I be thinking?" Sometimes life is as horrible as a great cartoon.

(max/toonpool.com 04/10)

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Member		Really horrible!! :D ***** menekse cam, on March 28, 2011  [report post]  [quote]  [reply]
Member		Hey, Dave! Congrats on being the 'toon of the day'! ericHews, on March 28, 2011  [report post]  [quote]  [reply]
Member		Ha! That's great! Hugh Jarse, on May 13, 2010  [report post]  [quote]  [reply]
Member		A good choice for selected cartoon. Hezz, on April 16, 2010  [report post]  [quote]  [reply]
Member		damn right achecht, on January 27, 2009  [report post]  [quote]  [reply]

 

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