Before and After Cartoons"thinking small is the key"

Here is yet another of my old cartoons before and after improvements.

The objective was to remove a lot of extra clutter and make the cartoons more easily understandable at a small size, especially for mags like Reader's Digest, who print the cartoons at microscopic size.

OLD VERSION:


What in the @&!#@! was I thinking of when I drew this. Maybe I was out to impress and hadn't learned the less is more principle yet.

NEW VERSION:


Much better, don't you think?

Less is more...less is more...less is more...