Comic Stripper 04 - Ironic Comic on Antarctic Economics

Ah, fateful last minute! The sweet nectar of work it extracts from me, mix'd with the bitter syrup of delay it delivers me into, are like the yin and yang of my creative process. 

Yet another comic competition lit the proverbial 'thing' in me to get to work. The theme was 'Rich and Poor', so it's only obvious I'd come up with something abstract like this:

Whale of a Problem

I guess some of my obsessions with composition are manifesting without my thinking about them - the whale's mass being balanced by the iceberg, and the frame divided into 1:2 vertically - but I didn't really think about sharp perspectives and suchlike because I was more focused on the organic characters and conveying the underwater scene satisfactorily in black and white. I've noticed my humour combines simple\slapstick with obscure\ironic, but that's if you even get to the point of understanding the joke, seeing how hard I make it to do that.

Unfortunately, the idea and final spur to do this came at the last minute, and by the time the comic was submitted, the competition had closed (Your mouth should strike a match about now). Ah, well, the fish was probably sour.