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Notes on a Meeting - #10

As long as you are writing during a meeting, your colleagues assume you are paying attention. Unfortunately, sometimes what they're saying isn't really worth listening to. That's when you doodle.

The following fictitious character in no way represents anyone I work with, or anyone who was in a recent meeting, or anyone I've ever worked with. Or anyone you work with, or know. Or whom you have ever known. Any semblance of the following fictitious character to any person, either living or dead, is purely coincidental and is completely in the imagination of the person who thinks it's them.

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Notes on a Meeting—#8

Look, if you don't need glasses, why wear them? Someone in Amsterdam or Stuttgart or Copenhagen started this trend, and now it is rampant in agencies worldwide. You don't look more creative with these things. You just look like you're from Amsterdam or Stuttgart or Copenhagen.

From this morning's production meeting.

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Notes on a Meeting #8 - Fake It

A couple more characters for the comic strip. These are "The Fakers." They're not exclusive to office environments. I'm sure you know a few. But really, this type is easier to deal with than the constantly-down "Moper," forever depressing everyone with sad tales of real life trouble. In our superficial culture, when we ask, "How's it going?" we don't really want to hear anything besides, "Fine." It's a greeting, not an invitation to unload.

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Notes on a Meeting #7

A mock ad, unfinished in Photoshop after doodling in a Monday morning production meeting, featuring a new character in the growing cast. He's male model "Vance." (Known in the industry as "Fancy Pants Vance.") Vance does double-duty in this cross-promotion for Fancy Pants Luxury Chronographs and The Barry Obama Collection^TM.

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Previously in "Your Watch Doesn't Make you a Man."

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Notes on a Meeting #6

I've got Joe The Plumber on the brain. Joe's words have been censored, as he was uttering some cliché sexual innuendo involving pipes. Next to Joe is "Star," or "Li'l Star," or "Starry," or "Starface," the busy little mascot of just about everything.

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Notes on a Meeting #5

Billboard meeting this morning. We didn't really get anywhere. I did, however, come up with a new character. He is "F-Man^®" I'm sure you know the guy. He exists in all creative circles, telling everyone why their ideas are lame. (Actually, I am him more often than I'd care to admit.) At F-Man's side is Existential Dawg, another character from a while back.