Doodleronomy

This doodle resulted from procrastination while a friend worked on homework during high school. It depicts an advertisement for a product with much potential—for disaster. The following is an excerpt from “What’s What in Advertising, Volume MIXXIXXIPPI”:

Hundreds of years ago, the only dangers children faced were wolves, malnourishment, drowning, saber-tooth tigers, cholera, dinosaurs, falls, respiratory infections, hippopotami, ignorance, strangers, measles, dehydration, bears, lightning, malaria, and exposure. Now, with thousands of babies born every day, kids face an even bigger threat: not being unique.

“I’ll name my baby after my favorite produce!” you might say. Good luck with that plan when your pregnant neighbor delivers her own baby Potato—surely a coincidence, of course.

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The two versions of the face on this sheet of Spanish-class notes both hold value, I would argue. The top one looks cleaner, meaning it was likely drawn after the bottom version. But the bottom version holds a certain amount of geeky charm. It looks to me like the face of a creature who is dumbstruck by a strange new world, though it wouldn’t take much to confuse him in the first place.

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A milenium later, the clan finally ran out of groceries.

It was bound to happen, foretold both in the prophecies and in simple math. A crashed spaceship load of foodstuffs can only last so long.

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George the gardener was a determined fellow. He worked hard, pruning every boxwood as though it was on an estate of his own. He played hard, as evidenced by the distinct smell of gin that accompanied his sweat.

And when he was vacuumed up by aliens, he fought hard, too, not that there was much he could do.

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