Original DA Upload Date: November 13, 2021
Another cartoon done as a college assignment.
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The Dunning-Kruger effect is a somewhat recent hypothesis in scientific history, in fact, it was first theorized and studied in 1999 by the namesakes of the hypothesis, David Dunning and Justin Kruger. It describes a cognitive bias, in which people with low ability think highly of their own. You might have this bias yourself about certain things. I might even. And you don’t even know it. The only people who know it are the ones who witness your ability.
That’s what I’m illustrating with this comic. Margo, the least intelligent of the Tetrad, overestimating her ability to speak publicly about her favorite food, submarine sandwiches, as she watches Gilda speak about citrus fruit. Which leads to her embarrassing herself and buckling under pressure, including singing “Yellow Submarine” to calm herself down.
Now to the piece! But first, since my college professor is strict about us showing professional behavior and not making stupid mistakes, and also because she expects us to submit this assignment as a link to its entry in our portfolio, I better put this paragraph in bold so she sees it.
No, professor Thomas, ‘Istallion’, ‘Amareican’, and ‘New Jerbosey’ are not typos, they are animal puns. ‘Istallion’ is a portmanteau of ‘Italian’ and ‘stallion’, ‘Amareican’ of ‘American’ and ‘mare’, and ‘New Jerbosey’ of ‘New Jersey’ and ‘jerboa’. If you follow my work, you’d know that many of the place names are animal puns. Again, they are not typos, they are puns. Please do not take off points for me spelling those words “wrong”, they are spelled that way intentionally.
Okay, now that that part’s out of the way, let’s get to the part for the general audiences.
For this comic, I sought to make the lighting play a role in the way the story is told. In regards to the most prominent example, Panels I and III are lit similarly to each other, to show that Gilda and Margo are confident in their public speaking abilities. Of course, the difference between each other is that panel III has a vignette around it, indicating that Margo only imagines herself as good at public speaking, while panel I does not, indicating Gilda actually is good at it. The setup of these panels makes a return in panel VI, which features much harsher lighting on Margo than in panel III to emphasize that she is uncomfortable with public speaking.
Gilda’s misspeaking in panel II, where she begins to mistakenly say ‘outside’ before correcting herself, was something I thought up on the fly. I initially, accidentally, typed ‘outside’ instead of ‘inside’, but decided to leave the typo there in spirit and have Gilda correct herself instead. Figured it’d be a cute way to characterize her, especially with her being on the spectrum and thus quirky with the way she communicates.
Panel VIII was actually the first panel completed. If you analyze the text closely, you’ll see that the black outlines around the dialogue are thicker than in all the other panels. I initially went back to change it for consistency, but after finding that the thicker outlines made it stick out from the background better, I decided to keep the text as it was.
Finally, all the facts about citrus fruit and sub sandwiches mentioned in this comic were fact-checked; I even looked up to see if the Holland I was an actual thing, as I’d never heard of it before. But after making this comic, I won’t forget it. Probably.
Anyhoo, that’ll be all for this one. Until next time, take care.
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“Yellow Submarine” was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney for the album Revolver, owned by… okay, I’ll be honest, you’d be surprised how hard it is to track who owns the Beatles’ music. The most I can find is that Paul McCartney is the current rights holder. But the label under which Revolver was recorded is Parlophone, which is now a subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
All eight panels of this artwork were made at a resolution of 5076×2160 (aspect ratio 2.35:1).
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