{"id":1087,"date":"2010-09-30T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2010-09-26T19:39:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T23:39:50","slug":"double-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/double-take\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Take"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1088\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dt-rake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1088\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1088\" title=\"dt rake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dt-rake-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"Double Take by Mark Szorady\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dt-rake-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dt-rake.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Double Take by Mark Szorady<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I draw five cartoon features which then get distributed to newspapers.\u00a0 One of the features I draw is called <em><strong>Double Take<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s a comic game panel where you compare the two cartoon panels and try to figure out what&#8217;s different.<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoy drawing this feature.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s a reader favorite.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the really neat thing.\u00a0 People will stop whatever they&#8217;re doing and stare at these two panels and try to solve it.\u00a0\u00a0 I mean, right then and there!\u00a0 They&#8217;ll stop all conversation and play this comic game panel.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen it happen again and again.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, I had business cards printed up and I used a Double Take cartoon on it.\u00a0 Every time I handed out this business card, the conversation would stop dead in it&#8217;s tracks!\u00a0\u00a0 The person holding the business card was looking at this small printed Double Take cartoon and playing the game!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen two, three and four people gather around the one person holding the card and all are playing and shouting out answers!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve even had folks shush me while they tried to concentrate and figure out all seven differences.\u00a0 And I always take this as a compliment, never as offense.\u00a0 It shows how much folks enjoy this cartoon feature!<\/p>\n<p>Click on the Double Take game comic at left to print out and play.\u00a0 Call or email your newspaper to have them add it to their comic page line up.\u00a0 Just send them to <a title=\"www.georgetoon.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.georgetoon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I draw five cartoon features which then get distributed to newspapers.\u00a0 One of the features I draw is called Double Take.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s a comic game panel where you compare the two cartoon panels and try to figure out what&#8217;s different. I really enjoy drawing this feature.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s a reader favorite. But here&#8217;s the really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}