Kvetching about the tilted Flintstones

I don’t usually pay attention to Google alerts with my name on it, because it’s mostly my own writings and cartoon that I have posted myself that I’m being alerted about.

But the other day I noticed that I was mentioned in Comics I Don’t Understand, a fun blog about cartooning and cartoonists.

I seem to be the talk of the town regarding my Flintstones cartoon. It was questioned as to the meaning. I think that is quite clear. Also, the talk is about it being slanted on the page.

Here’s the image they were talking about. It’s slanted because it’s an ad, but in many other places where it is published as just the cartoon, it is straight up.

I’ve sold many licensing rights to this very cartoon, so I am assuming that people paying the big bucks for the rights, get it and don’t need it explained.

While I usually try not to explain my cartoons because I like to leave the interpretation up to the reader, I’ll explain it here – Fred and Wilma are House Hunting – Wilma, like most people who are house hunting, decries the fact that the kitchen counters are not granite. Fred answers that everything in the house is granite, including the tv, so why cry over the kitchen counters?

I would have explained it on CIDU, but I don’t think they like the cartoonists/artists getting involved in the conversation, so I kept my mouth shut.

One guy asked what else would the counters be other than granite? Well, according to me, the writer of the cartoon, they are not granite. They could be plain old rock, or maybe Carrera marble! But they aren’t granite.

Another guy said the cartoon should be re-written, he said, “Maybe a better joke would have had Wilma saying she liked the granite countertops and Fred replying that everything is granite; the counters aren’t special.” I don’t find that funny. But “Those who know, do. Those who don’t kvetch,” or something like that.

This reminded me of why I don’t read what others write about me and why I delete those Google alerts without reading them. But I did appreciate them noticing me on CIDU. I like that site and enjoy seeing my work pop up there once in a while.

Till next time . . .

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