Wednesday, February 20, 2019

If you want to touch your audience with a story, then don’t hide behind a closed window






















It is easy to write (or tell) a story while detached - like being behind a closed window. But then you miss the sounds and smells, and lose an opportunity to connect better with your audience.

On December 9, 2018 Stephan Pastis had an eight-panel Sunday Pearls Before Swine cartoon about losing the family dog Edee to cancer that connected with a lot of people. At the Washington Post on February 8, 2019 Michael Cavna had an article titled A cartoonist drew a touching tribute to his dying dog. His readers gave him an outpouring of sympathy.
  
On February 17, 2019 Stephan had another touching Sunday cartoon about how Anthony Bourdain and his Parts Unknown TV program had inspired him to be curious and travel. My favorite of his cartoons is the one on May 25, 2003 about Memorial Day.
  
The image was adapted from this one at Openclipart.

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