How Steve Jobs Ruined Comics
I’ve been meaning to share this post by Tom Pappalardo about how those sleek slips of Apple technology pose a challenge to cartoonists: http://blog.tompappalardo.com/?p=2016
It’s a brilliant little essay about why iconic images are important elements in a cartoonist’s visual vocabulary. It also prompted me to reflect on how much Steve Jobs and Apple have changed everyday life. As the curmudgeonly Supernatural character Bobby Singer protests: “A computer has buttons!” Personally, I remember being amazed by a news story about how iPods were prompting clothing manufacturers to change the traditional size of pockets on shirts, pants and jackets.
I was a late convert to Apple. Early Macs were memory hogs and incompatible with everything. However, at some point, the company’s products became more useful and accessible, and I got tired of messing around with PCs and their array of unreliable OSes.
I’m not on board with all of Apple’s decisions (especially in the patents area), but I can’t deny that their stuff works for me with very little fuss. And even fewer buttons.
It’s a brilliant little essay about why iconic images are important elements in a cartoonist’s visual vocabulary. It also prompted me to reflect on how much Steve Jobs and Apple have changed everyday life. As the curmudgeonly Supernatural character Bobby Singer protests: “A computer has buttons!” Personally, I remember being amazed by a news story about how iPods were prompting clothing manufacturers to change the traditional size of pockets on shirts, pants and jackets.
I was a late convert to Apple. Early Macs were memory hogs and incompatible with everything. However, at some point, the company’s products became more useful and accessible, and I got tired of messing around with PCs and their array of unreliable OSes.
I’m not on board with all of Apple’s decisions (especially in the patents area), but I can’t deny that their stuff works for me with very little fuss. And even fewer buttons.