heck out this selection of
one-panel cartoons. Most of them use bylines and are in
black and white. My cartoons have won the second prize in the 2008 Year of Mathematics
cartoon competition, and have been included in the Deutscher
Karikaturenpreis exhibition and annual (German Cartoon Award, Germany's largest
cartoon contest). Clients
include Prospect, dtv, The Writer, Rowohlt,
Campus, and Hoffmann und Campe.
“Now, let’s see... if I took the second derivative of
α,
this would yield the new natural constant
β0
which would in turn revolutionize the way we see the
universe today... oops, time for lunch!”
Ivory-Tower Math Genius at Work 2nd prize, "Year of
Mathematics" award
Corporate Napoleon·
Campus (Germany)
“Oh my, aren't those just the cutest cribs?”
Chicken Cribs·
dtv (Germany)
Hamburger Envy·
Arvato (Germany)
Ping Pong Table Tennis·
Campus (Germany)
“Recent polls seem to indicate that 17 people
out of 23 feel
this is the correct result.”
Problem Solving 2nd prize, "Year of
Mathematics" award /
Prospect (UK)
DNA Tie·
Rowohlt (Germany)
“OPEN SESAME doesn't seem to work. They must have changed the
password.”
Open Sesame·
dtv (Germany)
Expensive Restaurant·
Rowohlt (Germany)
Orderly Dreams·
Psychology Heute (Germany)
– “So you don’t think this is weird at all, Anatol?”
–
“Absolutely. There should be an
ε0
in the second integral as opposed to an
ε.”
Missing Variable·
2nd prize, "Year of
Mathematics" award
Coffee Drinkers vs. Smokers·
Campus (Germany)
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Children's
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