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Yesterday’s Zippy:

(#1)

This follows on the previous day’s posting on (among other things) manga eyes.

Note the verbing of the adjective surreal in the second panel: surreal it ‘make it surreal’.

There’s a considerable industry of instruction in how to draw manga/anime figures of all kinds; my grand-daughter is into this stuff, so I’ve seen some of the instruction books. From an instructional website, in “Draw manga man hair 4 different ways”, an illustration:

(#2)

The superheroes, with manga eyes and manga hair,  in the last panel of #1 are a nice touch.

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