New(s) Vision

Cartoons drawn on the back of business cards and what they have to do with social media

Cartoons drawn on the back of business cards – gapingvoid.com

News exchange can clearly happen in many ways. And you can build your opinion to different things in even more ways. There is someone who is my absolute favorite in spreading his opinions and feelings. His name is Hugh MacLeod and he’s a genius.

Hugh is the creator of gapingvoid.com, a site where he publishes his cartoons and blogs. Extraordinary, socio-critical, provocative – “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”, as he likes to call them, can clearly save your day.

The fascinating thing about this website is that I don’t remember how I found or when, but I know that it has been a few years now and that he was the first “Blogger” I got to know. In the beginning he dealt with things such as feelings and chaos all over, but now he started focusing on social media too.

He also wrote something about how to be creative, which is his favorite work and the most visited thing on his website. His work is really great and I’m totally convinced that he is one of the greatest artists of our time.

I also think that his work fits this course, because of all his critical blogs about social media like twitter or blogging in general can help building our opinion to the topic we are dealing with in school.

I love Hugh MacLeod and I don’t know what I would do without this fabulous cartoons decorating one wall of my room. Hugh, keep going!