164. AMELIA EARHART: The fears are paper tigers
Amelia Earhart (1897- disappeared 1937) was a pioneering aviator. She was the first woman to fly solo across the atlantic, first to fly across the Pacific from Honolulu to Oakland and also set numerous altitude and speed records. A celebrity of her day, Earhart endorsed products, had clothing lines named after her, edited Cosmopolitan magazine, helped popularise flying to the masses and was a hero to millions.
On 1st June 1937, Earhart (and navigator Fred Noonan) set off to be the first woman to fly around the world. After flying for over a month and with only 7000 miles left of the journey to go, Earhart’s plane disappeared in the Pacific Ocean. Despite the attempts of the most expensive naval search in history at the time, no trace of Earhart’s plane was ever found. However, last week the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery revealed that a piece of plane they recovered from Nikumaroro Island in 1991 is almost certainly from Earhart’s plane. Earhart’s disappearance has spawned a few conspiracy theories, like maybe she was a secret agent sent to spy on the Japanese by FDR, or that she was captured and killed by the Japanese on Saipan island. My favourite is that perhaps Earhart faked her death, changed her identity, moved to New Jersey and became a banker named Irene Bolam. Seriously, what the hell?
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Credit to Amelia, but why on earth did people continue to play basketball in a court next to that threatening cave??
And what was the monster going to do with the inventory?
“why on earth did people continue to play basketball in a court next to that threatening cave??”
‘Cos that’s what humans do. Make the same mistakes over and over through multiple generations. And juvenile humans especially will gravitate towards anything they’ve been told to stay away from.
Dude, it’s a ball pit. He’s just bigger than we are, and it’s for swimming, like all ball pits.
I believe a “nailed it” it is order here.
But we have to credit for pointing out that apparently a few thousand basketballs have been lost in that cave and nobody ever thought of playing somewhere else. That, or Sasquatch the Pink’s human contact is a wealthy philanthropist who bought up half of North America’s basketball supply for the creature.
*have to credit Rodney
Love this quote!!
And how you’ve portrayed it gav!
Brills time!
Its so true, making the decision is the turning point of action and moving forward, as long as it is a solid decision and followed through.
Great stuff, love it!
So inspired. Love how this quote was illustrated!
Nice framing and vibration effect.
When can a poster for this be available?
You know, I respect the message about fear and all, but I think that avoiding the monster cave with all those signs was very much justified. I mean we’re not talking about the fear of changing your job or whatever. In my experience signs warning about deadly things usually should be taken seriously. If I was with my son at the entrance of that hole I’d say what the hell kid, let’s go get a new ball.
I agree with Leoboiko. Some signs are there for a reason – to protect you from danger. It is not wise to ignore them. SUB’s version of the cartoon would have made more sense.
OK but it is a comic. It’s not about real caves and monsters. It’s presenting a message about facing our real life fears by using the cave and monster as metaphors.
True, but not all fears need to be ignored or “faced”. Some fears are an instinct for self-preservation. The comic is nice but a little tweaking would make the distinction clearer.
The old maps had “here live monsters” on the edge of the known world…
Isn’t the message is conveyed when there are signs at the entrance, “No Danger”, “Safe”, “Come In”, “Friendly Monster Inside”, “Welcome to Monster Home”, “Your Basketball would not be returned if you do not come in” etc. And still kids are frightened to come inside. That would make sense of this cartoon?
Silent reader for ages but this one I felt I had to comment – though I agree that there’s an unreasonable amount of balls in the final frame – the illustration, coupled with the quote, is lovely in joy. Thank you.
So, we should worry about the reasonable amount of balls, or that people keep playing basketball near that cave, and nobody worries about a pink friendly monster, of which nobody has any (clear) pictures or videos, that lives in a huge cave that nobody has ever investigated, but where signs are nailed with warnings, and the police / army / security specialists have not fixed the dangerous situation? Thanks for making my mind boggle in so many ways. 🙂
This reminds me of the movie The Sand Lot. Definitely a staple of my childhood. 🙂
Paper tigers are a good analogy. I think that a lot of the time, we find that our fears turn out to not be as bad as we imagined them to be in the first place.
I agree wholeheartedly
As with everything you do, Gav, this piece is excellent. I want a big ball pit now!! 🙂
And now you got raped by the weird man this monster is supposed to represent
The monster doesn’t represent a weird man living in a cave. The cave, the monster, everything, are pure metaphor for the abstract nature of fear.
It’s a cartoon.
Remember the Little Red Riding Hood ? That was a fairy tale, and yeah, it’s not just about a little girl eaten by a wolf…
So no, for me the illustration for this quote is really a bad choice
tanck you best
Her disappearance was indeed shocking! There are number of theories that claims different reason but non of them is logically proven or stated. Well, thanks for sharing this piece, Glad reading about such a noble personality.
A bad decision is better than no decision.
Say that to someone who put a spoon in a microwave…
A well thought decision is better than a bad decision and no decision
Love this quote, quite inspirational. We just need to face our fears and give new things a chance. 🙂 Ordering this poster now.
“The fears are paper tigers”? Well, people saying something like this should be poster children for survivorship bias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias). Yes, she neglected her fears and achieved many things, but many others had done the very same thing and died. Sometimes – horribly. I think we have some broken aesop (with unexpectedly and unreasonably benevolent xenolife form) right here.
This is genius! Need to think of a quote that you can bring to life! Love it ????
how about “give a monster a blow job and he will share his balls”
Remember children, if you see a friendly stranger in a dark place, follow them.
good poster. Well done human Rights.
Hi gav, I would suggest to make this poster printed on T.shirt, I would be the first buyer!!
Remember children, if you see a friendly stranger in a dark place, follow them. :))
Remember children, if you see a friendly stranger in a dark place, follow them. :))
how about “give a monster a blow job and he will share his balls” 🙂
This is genius! Need to think of a quote that you can bring to life! Love it ????
Love This Quote
very good comics on your website
i like it
Loved it.
Great illustration of ‘decision is often the hardest’
I agree wholeheartedly
Great article!
Thanks for this comic.
like it!
Cute!
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Best part is her look when the others run away.
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And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they’ll ease
Your will they’ll mend
And charge you not a shilling
Thank you Gavin for your “AMELIA EARHART: The fears are paper tigers” comic post
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Funny how people are wondering where all the basketballs came from, but not where the giant, pink monster came from… 😉
🙂 Great quotes..made my day better!