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A Pie Chart Can’t Do This

I like charts, graphs, and diagrams because they make sense. Sure, your can skew them all sorts of ways, and sometimes they can get a bit out of hand, but they make sense. Arrow going up? Great! Series of bars getting shorter? Not so good. Easy. But I have to admit that Venn diagrams don’t…

 

 

Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire

It might be hard to read those little baskets on the desk, but they’re labeled “Frying Pan” and “Fire.” I’d love to take more credit for this, but it’s based on an old co-worker’s desk. She had the traditional “In” and “Out” paper bins, but she also had one labeled…

We’re In The Big Leagues Now

I’m not a sports guy. I’m sort of big and pretty tall, so coaches always assumed that I’d be a wonderful addition to whatever team they were assembling. I’d try to warm them, really I would, but they’d always chat me up, put me out there, and then shake their heads in bitter…

Declined . . Err, Reclined to Comment

I’m constantly on the prowl for words, phrases, any snippet of language that I think I can play with. I think I heard this on the radio one day. Someone somewhere wasn’t happy about something and “declined to comment.” Once something like that pops out at me, my head begins to run it…

Business As Usual

Well it’s a new year, and I can’t think of a better way to start off than with a fresh sales graph cartoon! I love coming up with different ways to play with a line or bar graph, and then sort of reverse engineering it to see what sort of a business or product it might fit. For example, with…

Restructuring Over the Downturn

Flowcharts are fun. You’ve got all your little boxes and arrows and symbols and colors…fun! This cartoon started out as a take on an overly complex flowchart that had symbols and lines here, there and everywhere, and it was okay, but it was when I put in one simple little box at the…

It’s A Stick-Up: Gimme Your Bandwidth!

So I’m at the airport and for whatever reason my super-duper smartphone, which is apparently from the not-too-distant future, just will not find a signal. Okay, no big deal, except that apparently everyone around me is busily typing away, being productive (or not), and enjoying some sort of…

The Consultants Have Arrived

I’ll admit I don’t know much about consulting. Only one of the companies I ever worked for ever hired one, and I’m sure they’re in general quite helpful, but not this one guy. Every suggestion he made, I swear, was the most basic, self-evident, common-sense idea I’d…

Is Your Voicemail Conspiring Against You?

There was a woman at one of my old jobs who was in a constant state of war with her voicemail. She was sure that phone was somehow plotting against her. Losing messages, ignoring calls, garbling audio… If there was a way to have trouble with voicemail, she had it. One day her voicemail…

It’s Only a Case of Viral Marketing

Viral marketing is apparently the holy grail of advertising now. Post a video of something funny, awkward or hopefully both, and hope that you’re the next big Internet sensation. Still, you’d think people in advertising would be able to craft a term a little more friendly than…

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