Author: Mark Heath
I'm a freelance cartoonist. My work has appeared in Reader's Digest, Harvard Business Review, American Scientist, Woman's World, and others. I'm also the creator of Spot the Frog, a comic strip you can find at Gocomics.com.
The Case of the Missing Words to Complete the Cartoon
A work in progress with place-holder text, but the gist is there. This is meant for a t-shirt, so I’ll likely whittle down the words. Something like…
WATSON: Astounding, Holmes! How did you find it?
HOLMES: Higgs claimed he never left the laboratory. Yet I noticed traces of dried mud on his pant cuff. Also, CERN.
Two Personalities, Two Captions, With Bonus Literary Criticism
An alternate caption: Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Odd Couple.”
Not sure which one I prefer. When it comes to captions, my thinking is often of two minds, which seems fitting this time around.
Or is it? Did Hyde exist independently of Jeckyll? Or was Jeckyll there all along, in the guise of Mr. Hyde?
You’ll find the literary criticism at Tor.com. Steven Padnick explains that I’ve misread the story. I feel like I did at the end of The Sixth Sense, when the film revealed that everything I’d understood about the story was wrong.
Prove a Negative
The Randi Prize offers a million dollars to anyone who can prove a negative, one that eludes the usual proof of evidence. My career, for example.
Shrinkage
New Vintage
I lost myself in this album cover for many hours, when it first arrived in the late seventies. Now it’s in a frame, lost in a box, tucked away in the basement, momentarily out of reach thanks to one too many moves and my wandering attention. But to be honest, that silver trumpet was always out of reach. I knew I’d never play like Maynard, I doubted I’d even own the brand of trumpet he played (and designed.) I like to imagine that this trumpet was plunged into ice to save it from melting after a concert.
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