My experience as a cartoonist!

One more pseudo-solution

Take a look at my cartoon here

Well, to tell you the truth, the idea of making a cartoon appeared to be challenging. I’ve always admired the job of cartoonists because I believe the many cartoons they write are mere products of great minds. The result of imaginative, critic and humorous personalities.

I’ve never ever imagined myself writing a cartoon simply because I think I do not have that character and that innate ability to amuse people. Besides, not only do I have little imagination but also I’m horribly bad at drawing. But there comes technology to assist us. Whenever we feel limited to do something, technology is there to make the task less daunting.

Therefore, the positive side of the page we explored is that it helps us overcome some of our natural limitations. In my case, this program saves me from the frustration of struggling-without success- to make some drawings. Will there ever be some program which provides us with ideas? Perhaps if that happens, then we’ll be able to make cartoons without difficulty. And then, that may have interesting teaching implications since we can include cartoons as support material of different teaching points, perhaps adding motivation to our classes.

Besides, the program is quite easy to operate. I didn’t have any problems to create the cartoon. Perhaps the only drawback is that the options we are given to select characters and accessories from are quite limited, restricting the ways of conveying different meanings. In my case, as I wanted to use the picture of a car which was not provided by the page, I added that picture later on in Paint. Its simplicity also enables people with little skill at managing computer programs to create cartoons quite easily. So, why not encouraging our students to create their comic strips?

All in all, I may admit that the task of creating my own cartoon was less of an ordeal than I’d expected. Although the result may not be a stroke of genius, I’m glad that I was able to make my first cartoon successfully.