Arthur 4/25/08

[scarfman]

Here are cartoons from Arthur, King of Time and Space since last Friday. No fanfiction cartoons this week (and next week is finals week).

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Thanks for reading.

Comments

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

There are some strange questions that come up when dealing with multiple levels of metafiction. One that's just occured to me is "Given that your Elaine is based on Helen Narbon, is *Arthur* doing this intentionally or, within the contemporary arc, is the similarity between Helen and the SOTTC character a coincidence?"

(I hope that makes sense, I practically needed to draw a diagram to write it 8-)...)

[scarfman]

No, I follow you.

The answer to your question is: I haven't decided. I'm leaning toward Arthur's doing it on purpose but leaving it as subtext. Otherwise it's not only a coincidence that Elaine has Helen's manner and haircut but that Brommel has Mel's manner and haircut. (Even if I haven't drawn any Shapes cartoons showing that Brommel has Mel's manner, it can't be assumed that Arthur hasn't. Especially when Arthur, like I, makes a point of never missing a day. That means he draws cartoons much more often than I draw him drawing them.)