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To follow up on the Doodle first Caption first cartoon argument, here is John O’Brien. He ponders the question of no caption, though I figure no caption belongs in the Doodle first school. Cool to see the process evolve through quick working drawings.

O’Brien writes:

I’m definitely a doodle-firster, as I’m very much a visual person, and my cartoons are mostly captionless. I begin with an inkling of something on paper. It could be a common image, an inanimate object, a visual pun, a cliché, or whatever.

I move from one thumbnail sketch to another, adding and subtracting elements, until it morphs into something, often totally different from my original concept, that I think is funny and worthy of submission.

It might develop quickly, but often it takes weeks or months of bouncing around in my sketchbook before it works.