Last week we explored some of the benefits of using cartoons in your communications and presentations: cartoons grab your attention, reinforce your message, make it memorable, keep your audience engaged, and let your audience see your human side. This week I’m going to show you some examples specific to improving your presentations. You can apply…
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Case Study: Harnessing Humor to enable difficult conversations
Helping increase engagement with the World Bank’s “Government Accountability and Citizen Engagement” Session At CartoonStock, we talk a lot about how humor can be used in business to drive home your message, engage with customers, build relationships, entertain and earn attention. These same advantages can be applied well beyond the business world, as evidenced by…
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“Trash Day” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
Ben Schwartz’s cartoon is set in the hallway of an apartment building. A resident holding a small garbage bag is standing in the doorway of his unit and addressing a suspicious-looking character who’s about to shove into the trash chute what looks like a dead body wrapped in plastic and secured with rope. I first…
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What are Cartoons For?
In addition to inducing smiles, chuckles, and outright guffawing, cartoons are good for more than laughs. Used correctly, cartoons can make your message more effective, enjoyable, and memorable. Cartoons are a powerful tool for communication. Here’s why: Cartoons grab the attention of your audience with humor and insight. When your audience “gets” a smart cartoon,…
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“Jailed Comedian” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
The Silence of the Lambs is an iconic horror movie, the only one to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, and its most striking image—an incarcerated Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter in full restraints—is the apparent inspiration for Ivan Ehler’s drawing. Lecter is in his prison cell, and he’s been propped up in front a…
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