{"id":81941,"date":"2014-01-06T14:22:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T14:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/procartoonists.org\/?p=81941"},"modified":"2021-11-16T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T10:14:00","slug":"everyones-a-cartoonist-nowadays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/procartoonists.org\/everyones-a-cartoonist-nowadays\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone\u2019s a cartoonist nowadays"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_81947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81947\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/procartoonist.org\/portfolios\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81947\" alt=\"Google_Comic_Strip_Automation_\u00a9_Matthew_Buck_Hack_Cartoons_@procartoonists.org\" src=\"https:\/\/procartoonists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Google_Comic_Strip_Automation_\u00a9_Matthew_Buck_Hack_Cartoons_@procartoonists.org_1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-81947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Matthew Buck Hack Cartoons @ Procartoonists.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Regular readers of this blog will be unsurprised to learn that automation has struck once more with Google <a title=\"Google Patent for Automated Comic Strips\" href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;d=PALL&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;s1=8,621,366.PN.&amp;OS=PN\/8,621,366&amp;RS=PN\/8,621,366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">receiving a patent<\/a> for\u00a0<a title=\"Google social media comic strip patent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbronline.com\/news\/tech\/software\/appdev\/us-pto-approves-googles-comical-patent-for-social-networks-030114-4154991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the \u2018\u2018self-creation of comic strips in social networks and other communications\u2019\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The advertising giant is following in the footsteps of other digital toolmakers such as <a title=\"Opinion: Bistrips at procartoonists.org\" href=\"http:\/\/procartoonists.org\/opinion-tearing-a-strip-off-automated-online-cartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bitstrips<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Digital automation of cartoon formats for display\u00a0<a title=\"Google and the Comic Strips\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/blogs\/it-downtime-blog\/2014\/01\/is-googles-latest-patent-a-jok.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is inevitable<\/a>\u00a0in a time of growing digital processing power, and it means that now everyone can be a cartoonist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Procartoonists.org<\/strong> believes that <a title=\"UK Professional Cartoonists Organisation portfolios\" href=\"http:\/\/procartoonists.org\/portfolios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quality will out, however.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_81943\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81943\" style=\"width: 388px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81943\" alt=\"Booting up a PC \u00a9 Colin Thompson @ procartoonists.org\" src=\"https:\/\/procartoonists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-04-at-09.46.37.png\" width=\"388\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-81943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Booting up a PC \u00a9 Colin Thompson @ Procartoonists.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of this blog will be unsurprised to learn that automation has struck once more with Google receiving a patent for\u00a0the \u2018\u2018self-creation of comic strips in social networks and other communications\u2019\u2019. 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Digital automation of cartoon formats for display\u00a0is inevitable\u00a0in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,49,41],"tags":[2535,60,2499,2536,327,407,1865,93,45],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Everyone\u2019s a cartoonist nowadays - Professional Cartoonists Organisation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/procartoonists.org\/everyones-a-cartoonist-nowadays\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Everyone\u2019s a cartoonist nowadays - Professional Cartoonists Organisation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Regular readers of this blog will be unsurprised to learn that automation has struck once more with Google receiving a patent for\u00a0the \u2018\u2018self-creation of comic strips in social networks and other communications\u2019\u2019. 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