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EDIT: I misunderstood how this works! Really cool! Might be good to make the "closed" the default and the mouseover open it?
by gkoberger 6y ago
EDIT: I misunderstood how this works!
Really cool! Might be good to make the "closed" the default and the mouseover open it?
- semireg 6y agoNo. The whole idea of the fold-in was to be the opposite of a fold-out (playboy). In MAD, the folded out asks a question or poses a riddle. Folding-in provides the answer and laughter.
- function_seven 6y agoThat would be like telling the punchline first, then the joke. The folded-in view is the surprise.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoExcept in this image, isn't the folded out view much more interesting, ie more of a surprise? I thought the idea was to have a juvenile joke, but the hammock coming out from tri-fold and the cake appearing from the cauliflower-haired old man appears to be the surprising part. Anyway, the text is a little off for me - the letters clash NO, AM, FO, IN (almost the whole I is gone) - but it appears to be the underlying thing is just an image, so is the image off. A ½px margin sort of fixes it. Overall impression is very slick.
- adrianmonk 6y agoThe way it works in the paper magazine is that the image is printed on a single page, and you receive it unfolded like any other page. (That's why there are instructions on the top right about how to fold it. If it came pre-folded, you wouldn't need those instructions.) So the format of the joke as used in the magazine is that you see the unfolded version first. Anyway, in the one you're talking about, if you read the top-center text, it talks about what the artist gets to do for his birthday. As he blows out the candles on the cake, he wishes he could spend his birthday on the beach. The joke is that he actually celebrates it by trying to think of something to draw, i.e. he has to work.