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One day I was clicking through some comics on an internet site and came across a cartoon about Ronald McDonald and his hidden “gothic” identity. I immediately cracked up and had to find out more of the cartoonists work. I left a reply under the comic saying I loved the humor, and it wasn’t long after that I became friends with one of the creators. I would like to introduce to you a little of the humor I found that day. Sardonic Salad is a one panel comic written and drawn by Chad Isely and Kit Lowrance and everything is open game to their humor. I asked Chad and Kit if I could feature them on Don’t Pick the Flowers blog (and they said yes) so with great pleasure I present to you “Sardonic Salad”.
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Chad: I typically don’t have to… which is a great benefit of collaborating. If an idea comes to me, I draw it, but I don’t have to depend on myself to come up with content. I have the luxury of sitting back and seeing what comes out of Kit’s delightfully twisted mind. From my standpoint, it’s quite liberating. All the fun of drawing, with none of the stress of writers block!
Kit: It’s interesting to hear Chad describe his role that way, because I can’t draw anything beyond stick figures, but I’ve usually got an idea or two cooking, and am always really pleased with what Chad does with the 2 or 3 lines of text I send him, and how he represents it visually. As far as where the ideas come from, I draw a lot of inspiration from idioms, or what some things might look like if they were taken to their most extreme conclusions. The ability to assign human characteristics to inanimate objects allows us to be pretty unrestricted in terms of the subject matter we cover.
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Chad: Our focus used to primarily be getting established in print media. These days print media is drying up quickly, and so are many of the old oppurtunities for cartoonists. We have switched our focus to the internet, and are working hard to find, and fill our niche. Exactly where and what that is, isanyone’s guess, but I’m sure we’ll stumble into it sooner or later. In the meantime, if we make a few people laugh, and sell a t-shirt or two, we’re going to count it a success.
Kit: We’ve talked a lot about what we’d like to do with Sardonic Salad and where we’d like to see it go, but we also both really value the ideas of creative control and being able to produce new material at our own pace, so preserving those will likely continue to be quite important to us, whichever path we end up taking.
