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Cartoons and Comics
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child at the desk looking somewhat at loose ends says, "I'm waiting for
inspiration." artbyshannon.com |
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| Another child in a sandbox says, "I'm waiting for inspiration." | ||
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John Morris A desk worker says he's waiting for a big idea. Cartoonstock.com |
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Fran A man waiting for inspiration to write a simple sentence on the Christmas cards. Cartoonstock.com |
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An island of
blocked writers. Cartoonbank.com |
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Charles Barsotti A woman tells her deflated husband the writer, "Well, I have to tell your publisher something." Cartoonbank.com
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Woman Talking to Her Uninspired Husband Corbis AAHG003841 (RM) CartoonBank.com An older artist and his wife. He looks at the blank canvas and his wife says, "If only you could have frozen ideas from your prolific youth" |
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| Hit by Inspiration | ||
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An animated inspiration comes and hits a person sitting at the computer. The inspiration gets transferred into the computer. | |
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A guy sitting on a bench has a big ideas that fills the
space around him. A guy sitting next to him is getting crowded out. He says,
"Hey? What's the big idea?" Bizarro by Piraro 3-13-03 |
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Ellis Nadler A lightbulb is screwed into someones head. Cartoonstock.com |
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Simon Bond An inspiration of inventors yell 'Eureka!' Cartoonstock.com |
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Ellis Nadler A hand and pen come from inside the head. Cartoonstock.com |
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A man is hit by an apple. The sudden idea. Looks painful.
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| The Muse | ||
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Muses Hovering Above Couple on a Couch The New Yorker Collection from CartoonBank.com Corbis AAHG003987 (RM) A man and woman sit on a couch and above them fly several muses. The woman says, "Be patient with me. The arts are an important part of my life." |
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Writer Working on Computer While His Muse is Trapped in Birdcage Corbis AAHG002956 (RM) The New Yorker Collection from CartoonBank.com/ (theme - work) |
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William Steig A muse or angle flies over the businessman. Cartoonbank.com |
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Stan Hunt The muse of money inspires the businessman. Cartoonbank.com |
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Lee Lorenz A writer works furiously at this computer. A muse tries to pullout the plug to get him to stop. Cartoonbank.com (take a break) |
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Mick Stevens Bowling Muse. Cartoonbank.com |
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Cupid
with the hammer of inspiration. Arttoday.com |
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Arnie Levin The writers muse tells him to save the writings to the hard disk. Cartoonbank.com |
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Source of inspiration
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Tony Hall Standing next to the piano, a man says to the musician, "Great melody! don't know how you do it!" Outside birds sit on the telephone wires and make up a music score. Random chance becomes his inspiration. Cartoonstock.com |
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Ronald Sel?? The composer flicks ink at a music sheet. The song is composed by random chance of ink hitting the music sheet. |
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Karsten Schley An inventor says his wife is the inspiration for him wanting to create a faster than light space ship. Trying to get away from his wife is his inspiration. Cartoonstock.com |
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Richard Jolley People at a gallery, one says, "He actually had sober periods." All the paintings are dark and chaotic except one of them. The inspiration of alcohol. Cartoonstock.com |
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Leo Cullum A man sitting in a park says he was inspired to be lawyer when he got beat up as a kid at this bench. The inspiration of getting revenge. Cartoonbank.com |
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A college
dropout inspires a student. Cartoonstock.com |
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by
John Morris Inspiration and work One of those sappy motivational signs at work says, "Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration". The woman replies, 'I wondered why there was such a bad smell in here.' Cartoonstock.com Inspiration and work |
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Carroll Zahn Man at a desk at the company of Ideas.com, The in and out trays are tilted Come and Gone.. Cartoonstock.com |
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Mick Stevens A woman asks for a job as a muse. Cartoonstock.com |
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Keith D, Daby
Stef in Inspiration. The character searches for ideas for a song but can not find any. |
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Charles Barsotti A man goes to the guru in the mountain cave. The guru says he will trade enlightenment if the seeker programs his VCR. Cartoonbank.com
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Rick
London A group gets together to brainstorm. The brains come raining down. |
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An idea light bulb pops up. Source Microsoft clip art. | |
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An exclamation mark over the head replaces the typical light bulb to represent an idea and inspiration.. | |
| Light bulbs rain down out of an umbrella. | ||
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Inspiration for the Unhappy Bob Finlay A humorous story about a bird and its inspiration that leads to disaster. |
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W.K. Haselden, |
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David Low |
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David Low |
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David Low |
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W.K. Haselden 1926 A woman with goes thought different moods. She finally gets inspired to go shopping. Carton Centre |
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W.K.Haselden, |
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W.K. Haselden |
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David Low |
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Dilbert April 3, 2002 The Boss introduces an inspiration speaker that was a famous athlete, drug addict and alcoholic. The speaker gets up to speak, but he's all strung out. A woman says to the boss. "It's not inspirational until he stops doing those things." |
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Dilbert date unknown The boss gives the workers an inspirational book about a fish market that he wants them to read. He says, "I want you to be like the characters in the book." The workers aren't impressed because, they say, the main characters, "get captured, tossed around and eaten." |
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Dilbert August 19, 2002 A worker at the meeting table gets a great idea. He jumps up all excited, "I've got a billion dollar idea!" The boss says, "The company owns all your ideas. Caught it up..." The worker then gets all depressed. |
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