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Published: 2018-02-06 22:20:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 2031; Favourites: 44; Downloads: 0
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I wanted to draw a comic about the Olympics but was kind of bummed out that it was the Winter Olympics this year instead of the Summer Olympics. Because let’s face it: from a cartoonist’s perspective, the Summer Olympics are better because the games use so many more props. You’ve got the hammer and the shot-put and the discus and the epee and the bow and the javelin and like 15 different kinds of balls. What do the Winter Olympics have? Skates and skis? Unwieldy bobsleds? I can’t fit those kinds of things into comic panels; I’m not some sort of magician!
But I was determined to draw a comic about the Olympics. And so I made it work. Somehow.
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This first appeared on Defenestration www.defenestrationmag.net on Friday, February 2nd.
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Agreed. We should have a flaming Olympics where everything is on fire.
---AK
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I think more fire needs to be added to the Olympics. Like, ski jump over fire, and flaming discus, and ... yeah. I'm going to start my own 'Olympics En Fuego'.
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It's the only way. I'd promote this.
---AK
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He's doing a service.
---AK
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Him and everyone around him.
---AK
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He won't win the Olympics but he will be trending.
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Is he also doing every event while gargling a snake, or is that smoke from burning bees/peanut butter, depending on the alternate throat dimension closest to the fire?
The yellow of the flames looks like a crown or tiara, so even if he only medals once, Winslow can take some comfort in the fact he looks like royalty. That's on fire. Which, frankly, I think may have been some people's preferred state for royals at various points in history. Headless certainly was, and he can do that too.
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Burning peanut butter coated bees.
---AK
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How is he able to stay on fire while swimming on water? That's impressive.
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It takes the skill of an Olympian!
---AK
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Sometimes Winslow just gets those ideas that are technically sound. I mean, he has a clear plan, (Perform in the olympics while on fire) a set goal, (get attention) and his plan will more than likely lead him to achieve his goal. Thinking about it like that, it's a perfect plan. Possibly one of his best ideas.
Still completely insane, of course, though.
And if throwing javelins or high jumping while on fire is awesome, I think a flaming bobsled shooting down the track at high speeds would be awesome squared.
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Yeah, but then I'd have to DRAW a flaming bobsled, and who's got time for that?
---AK
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And so he won every event...by melting the ice around his opponents and causing them to drown
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Probably. Winning by a technicality is still winning, right?
---AK
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The warmest Olympian.
---AK
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Doubt he'll be the hottest, though.
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And looking good at the same time.
---AK
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His hot head is his path toward victory!
---AK
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