Overwhelmed
July 26th, 2021 Barry Posted in Becky Hawkins collaborations | No Comments »
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This cartoon is another collaboration with Becky Hawkins
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has four panels. Each of the panels shows the same character, a bearded man wearing glasses and a checked shirt open over a tee shirt.
PANEL 1
The man is walking, bent over like he has a heavy weight on his back. He’s surrounded by a twisting, circling ribbon that says things like: ABLEISM LONELINESS TRANSPHOBIA RACISM POLICE VIOLENCE DISEASE POVERTY GENTRIFICATION and so on. The man is talking to himself. The background is a dull greenish gray.
MAN: There’s too much wrong with the world! I’m overwhelmed!
PANEL 2
The background turns bright yellow as the man straightens up and talks towards the sky, with an expression and body language indicating determination. The twisty ribbon has disappeared.
MAN: Enough! From now on I’ll just think about the single most important issue! Which is global warming! No other issues matter if the Earth is destroyed!
PANEL 3
The background color dims back towards a green-gray as the man thinks it through, a hand on his chin in a “I’m thinking” gesture.
MAN: Of course, we can’t deal with climate change until we can hold corporations accountable…
MAN: …which can’t happen without a better government…
MAN: But we can’t have a better government while elections are so broken…
MAN: …which means we have to be looking at racism! And classism!
MAN: …and… and…
PANEL 4
The background has become a dull green gray, similar to the first panel but darker. A yellow spotlight-type light picks out the man, who has crouched onto the ground, face down, almost in a fetal position. The ribbon is back, but this time, instead of swooping around him in many directions, it’s a single big spiral seemingly pressing him down. The lettering on the ribbon says “CLIMATE CHANGEVOTING RIGHTSBROKEN DEMOCRATIC CAPITALISM RACISM POVERTY…” and so on.
This panel has no dialog.
