They Walk Among Us
November 20th, 2024 Barry Posted in Becky Hawkins collaborations, LGBT cartoons | No Comments »
This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins.
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has four panels, all of the same scene: Two women are waiting at a bus stop, talking. One woman, who I’ll call, oh, I dunno, I’ll just randomly say CHAYA, is wearing a modest purple dress and has long brown hair. The other woman, who I’ll call HAIRCLIP, is wearing a yellow front-button shirt and blue tights. And she has a hair clip. 🙂
PANEL 1
Both women are seated on the bus stop bench. Chaya is holding her smartphone in front of Hairclip’s face; Hairclip is leaning away, taken by surprise.
CHAYA: Look at this! It’s a picture of a greeter at a children’s museum!
HAIRCLIP: Um… so?
PANEL 2
Chaya has stood and is pushing the smartphone at Hairclip, who has raised a hand to push the smartphone away. Chaya is yelling a bit.
CHAYA: Well, I think this person looks trans! Isn’t that awful? Doesn’t it make you feel panic and rage?
PANEL 3
Hairclip has stood and is chewing out Chaya, who sits back down.
HAIRCLIP: No, of course not! It’s just someone doing their job! What’s wrong with you?
PANEL 4
Hairclip stomps off angrily. Behind her, Chaya looks happy, even serene, as she looks at her smartphone screen.
HAIRCLIP (thought): Jerk! Good thing no one would listen to a clown like that.
A large arrow-shaped caption points at Chaya. The caption says “3.5 million followers.”
CHICKEN FAT WATCH
“Chicken fat” is an obsolete cartoonists’ term for amusing but unnecessary details the cartoonist puts into the cartoon.
In this cartoon, there’s an ad on the public bench they’re sitting on. No single panel shows the whole bench, but if you look at all of them you can determine that the ad says “#1 New York Times Bestseller I HAVE BEEN SILENCED!, with an image of the guy from this cartoon.
The bus stop sign has an image of a rocket ship instead of a bus.
In panel 4, a newspaper is lying on the ground. The newspaper is called “Background Post.” The headline says “TRAGIC!,” and the subhead says “Artist fails to leave enuf room for text, nation mourns.”
