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Stan Bargmeyer, Retired Widower and Coma News Intern
Contrary to my expectations, I have found that if you practice hard enough, cartoons aren’t so scary. When I was little I saw illustrations of a ghost in a cartoon and it terrified me.
Santa was not hurt in the creation of this cartoon.
I told my friend Bob Smith-Smith about some of the scary cartoons while we ate some sausage and grits at Bobby’s Diner in Coma. Bob told me that there are cartoons about fat cats, ones that make fun politicians and that there’s nothing bad that happens when you read them because cartoons aren’t real.
It also feels scary when I see that boy in Calvin and Hobbs ride his sled off a cliff with his pet tiger. But thanks to Bob I now know no child was injured in the making of that cartoon. “Cartoons aren’t real. It’s just a pencil on paper. Bad people are real but cartoons and illustrations are not.”
Even though Dinosaurs are scary they were apparently not at the last supper and did not eat the actual disciples’ faces in this picture.
There was a cartoon I saw that had a cannon ball on a guys head. Now I know that doesn’t mean a man’s head somewhere really blew up.
Even though the people in the cartoons aren’t real, apparently sometimes the points they are making are real. Or funny. Bob says that a lot of cartoons are funny and saying something. I don’t know what that fat cat Garfield is saying he’s always eating lasagna with that not too smart dog.
But the great thing about cartoons is that with enough practice and the bravery to keep looking at them, you will find cartoons aren’t even scary.
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