They're literally all the same

2025-03

They're literally all the same, 2025 — cartoon by Ray Patrick

Cartoons, B&W, ROTC

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Subject

A Travel Edition cartoon drawn off the show. A billboard urges passers-by to be original and think Californian. Beneath it a line of people in near-identical outfits and slogan shirts — one of a kind, special, distinct, unique, happy — stand in a row, and somebody points out that they are literally all the same.

Composition

The billboard runs across the top as a hard horizontal and the row of figures stands beneath it like a chorus line, each one at the same height and spacing. The repetition is the composition.

Palette

Black ink on white. No colour.

Handling

Open line throughout with the slogans hand-lettered on every garment, and hatching reserved for the car and the road. Nothing is filled solid, which keeps the uniformity obvious.

Medium and support

Ink on paper, drawn as a cartoon for the show.

Signature

Lettered ROTC TOONS: TRAVEL EDITION at the lower left with the artist's name and a date in MMDDYY at the right.

From the artist:

Be Original think Californian