Passed on by Jeff Wechter in e-mail, a link to Ted McCagg’s drawings on his site Questionable Skills, including a long series of Best Word Ever drawings, in which competitions in word attractiveness are presented as bracketed sports tournaments. Yesterday’s open competition:
And then a completed tournament, in a series that runs through the letters of the alphabet (of course, I’d choose Z):
McCagg draws more traditional cartoons as well as these diagrams, which lie off on the edges of the comics/cartoons world (along with Venn diagrams and some webcomics I’ve posted about).
August 28, 2012 at 4:51 pm |
In the first example, not only do I admire all those words, but the pairings are inexplicably delicious.