CSotD: Beans and Nothingness
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Keith Knight's style is deceptively casual. At first glance, it looks like he simply scrawls his artwork, and, for all I know, he may, in fact, draw very quickly. But there's nothing slapdash about it, and both the action and the facial expressions he captures make even a silly joke like this one twice as funny as it ought to be.
The protagonists (Do cartoons have "protagonists"?) in his cartoons are nearly always either recoiling in horror, as here, or wide-eyed in dismay or burdened with angst, while the people horrifying, dismaying or burdening them are nearly always in a cheerful, mindless state of rapturous disregard. A more realistic drawing style would never capture the mood he creates of the thinking person trapped in a thoughtless world.
Which is a roundabout way of saying that I think Keith Knight is a lot funnier than Jean-Paul Sartre.
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