The Angriest Rice Cooker Director’s Cut 4 — On Socrates and the unexamined life
When I wrote the first comic, I kind of assumed that the comics would get more wordy as I went on and I’d eventually need to reduce the size of the font that I was using. I based this assumption on the examples of Daily Dinosaur; and Partially Clips, both comics which tend to compensate for a lack of action with a lot of words. I only really ever had to do that once, not counting the times that I changed the font to represent quotations (by the way, most of those times look terrible and I plan to fix that when I get to those comics in this director’s cut). I think it was right around here that I realized that the proper style for this comic was going to always be brief. After this my goal was to match the minimalism of the art with minimalistic writing. I certainly didn’t always succeed, and some of the comics are definitely minimal to the point of being more or less incomprehensible, but when it worked minimalism produced some of my favorite Angriest Rice Cookers. This is one of those.
On an almost completely unrelated note, I’ve already made myself look crazy in these posts (see number 2) , so I figure I should sell out a good buddy, too. One time, I was hanging out with a good friend of mine who was very much a part of the conversations that formed The Angriest Rice Cooker. At least one comic (much later) was an almost direct quote from him. Anyway, we were talking about something that involved Socrates, I don’t even remember what. But instead of saying Socrates, he said Mickey Mouse. We had not been talking about Mickey Mouse, and he had not been thinking about Mickey Mouse. It’s a case for Oliver Sacks, if I ever heard one.
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