What People Like in Cartoons
2-12-10 I just checked my cartoons on my Flickr account. I used to think my most popular one was the one called “Inocculatte,” with the guy in the hospital getting an IV of coffee latte and the nurse saying, “he’d die without his coffee, but ever since I updated a new version of the cartoon a few months ago there apparently haven’t been many visits to it. Flickr erased the old high number of visits to it and started over again. I suspect Flickr’s record-keeping a bit, but…
Today I was surprised and not surprised. My cartoons that featured breasts got a lot of attention. Not a surprise. The anti-Bush cartoon called “The Decider,” quite an original, was very popular, even though he had left office I think when I first put it up. An angry “Asserter” type girl from my book, “The Enneagram of Parenting,” saying “you’ll stay in the corner until I want my dinner!” to her cowering parents, got a lot of attention but not as much as the Peace Seeker, called “Aldercation,” about the woman taking a vacation in the woods under the “drees.” That’s what the word Aldercation means to this peaceful soul. So I guess people like extremes in peaceful and assertive personalities.
The winner of all was the cartoon in the front of “The Enneagram Made Easy” called “the Dinner Party,” with all nine types sitting around a table acting like their typical selves. Maybe Enneagram teachers upload it to show their classes or, like my doctor, to give to their dinner guests as something to build conversations around. Speaking of conversations, you might want to visit my PsychologyToday blog. I’ve found some interesting topics to talk about lately. <!— /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:”“; margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-noshow:yes; color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} —> http://bit.ly/psychtdy
