Quote Originally Posted by James Allen View Post

I think that when cartoonists do decide to use a more realistic approach, employing the machinery of lights, shadows and reflections, the viewing public will pick on mistakes made. Ten year old kids will be writing letters saying, “Hey mister, even I know that if a guy is standing in front of a search light, his shadow will be going in the opposite direction, not toward the light!”

Gary Larson [Far Side] once drew a cartoon where the husband mosquito came home to his wife washing dishes at the kitchen sink and said he had had a really hard day spreading malaria across half of Africa. He [Mr Larson] observed that he got a sack full of comments that it is the female mosquito that spreads malaria not the male, but zero comments about mosquitos not wearing aprons and not doing washing up...

This is a perfect benchmark of what [non-artistic] readers think

Like Beret I look at the cartoon for the effect - and the effect is spot-on