Hello y’all and Happy Monday!
I hope you enjoy watching a time lapse of my drawing indecisions, ha.
This cartoon was my first “desert island” idea. When I first drew it I was excited to be making my first traditional genre cartoon. Out of curiosity I ended up reading about the history of the “desert island cartoon”, specifically from this article below:
A Guy, a Palm Tree, and a Desert Island: The Cartoon Genre That Just Won’t Die
The author interviews The New Yorker’s previous cartoon editor Bob Mankoff. I loved to read that the desert island cartoon was banned for a period in time because people had become so sick of them. Not sure why I find that funny, but I do. I like to imagine a 1960’s husband opening his newest New Yorker to another desert island cartoon and he throws the magazine against the wall in a rage. Enough is ENOUGH. He can no longer even LOOK at islands!
I also made this when NFTs seemed to be peaking. As an artist on social media it was inescapable being asked about these things. I personally think they’re a bad joke with an astonishing carbon footprint. At best, modern day beanie babies— fight me. I couldn’t escape the discourse, hence desert island cartoon.
Time Lapse of a Desert Island Cartoon