The two snowmen are held up by this rabbit and the male stands to defend himself with a broom. The female snowman is somewhat set to the side in the situation as the male snowman and the rabbit engage in a stare-down. By our knowledge of rabbit, we can put together that he is most likely after the carrots which take place of the snowmen’s noses. But, to make it more clear we are given the words from the female snowman “It’s not worth it, Roy! Let’s just give him our noses and let him go!” By depicting these words, you can tell she is frightened and probably yelling or using a stern voice. The word ‘worth’ is also underlined which gives off its importance to her being serious with the situation. All of the text is also put into capital lettering and a more bold font. The font itself looks to be a handwriting type, which gives the piece some personalization. Typography comes into play at this point to help the audience understand the full meaning and expression through the text itself.
Although this comic is not an actual event, it does reach out to showing societies problems. If these were not snowmen and perhaps humans instead, this would be an extremely serious and unfunny situation. In today’s world this happens every day. It could be from the stress of not having enough money to pay the bills or just simply for a rush of excitement. No matter what the situation is, it happens. Depending on the audience alone, this comic could be taken seriously or just for laughs. In a more serious way on looking at society, the snowmen could very well represent the wealthy part of the population while the rabbit is taking the role of being poverty stricken. In times of need, people (or rabbits in this case) will do the craziest things. Obviously, this comic was made for humor purposes but the ideas came from real life situations, hence the comic being true and false at the same time.Lastly, if you look closely near the tree to the front and left of the comic, right above the signature, you will notice a small alien creature. Piraro started to include small, hidden icons in within his daily panel to hold a greater fascination than the cartoonist’s political agenda.
“At first I did it entirely to entertain myself,” he explains. “And instantly I started getting floods of e-mails saying, ‘Hey, what’s the deal? Am I the only one that noticed this? Is there a secret to it?’ People wanted it to be something important. So I indulged them. I said, ‘Yeah, it’s a whole big secret, and you’re the only one who knows.’ But little by little I added more and more, because people just enjoyed looking for them. So I put an entire section on my website about the secret symbols and made up nonsense philosophical reasons for what they stood for.” (Robinson)
For this specific symbol of the alien, Piraro states that it represents the immense and immeasurable universe and all its possibilities. Even though there are many different symbols which Piraro uses for his comics, I couldn’t agree more than to use the alien for the snowmen comics. This strip definitely represents all the types of possibilities that can happen.
I find that deductive reasoning functions best with the context in which I have provided about this comic. My reasons are for the most part, because of my disagreement with inductive reasoning and its relation to this piece. I do not agree that because this rabbit is evil and holding up the two snowmen, that all rabbits in the comic world are evil. The ethos of this comic should also help the audience to relate and understand the meaning behind what is going on. The visual effects represent what is occurring at the time being and the text provided also clears up what is happening. This comic is very descriptive and provides a good amount of truth.Works Cited
Robinson, B. (2006, April 19). Panel Tricks. Retrieved November 8, 2009, from Metro Active: http://www.metroactive.com/bohemian/04.19.06/piraro-0616.html
Heintjes, T. (n.d.). The Dan Piraro Interview. Retrieved October 28, 2009, from Daryl Cagle's Political Cartoonist Index: http://cagle.msnbc.com/hogan/interviews/piraro/piraro.asp
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