Richard Bell's nature sketchbook since 1998
My next cartoon illustrates the use of powdered rhubarb as a medicine in China, 2,700 years ago.
Experimenting with animation, I came up with this warped out-of-register effect, which could be an appropriate way to suggest the malady affecting the over-indulgent mandarin.
This mammoth looks exactly like my original frame from the Short History of Rhubarb comic strip from my Walks in the Rhubarb Triangle, except that it isn’t cropped (the tips of the tusks and the mammoth’s rear end are missing in comic) and, despite the flat colours, I’ve now reformatted it in eight separate layers, so that I can animate individual features like the trunk and the eyes.