Author: droell

And then there are contractions like: Wanna go to C’rackers, Venezuela?

(Editor’s note: pronounce each consonent letter “C” & “r” as their own syllable. Found in dictionary: Caracas | kəˈräkəs, kəˈrakəs | the capital of Venezuela, in the northern part of the country near the Caribbean Sea; population 2,097,400 (est. 2009).)

Still others substitute one word for three: Tijuanna sing a song?

Other Puntifications have one word standing for two: Did you like my desert joke? Well, I know a Bedouin!

Some are one-for-one substitutions. For example, a ruler on Prozac would be Kublai Khalm instead of Khan.

Fourth: Read’em aloud! We discovered that puns are more apt to “click” in you mind when you vocalize them–even when you’re reading them by yourself. It can be more fun that way.

Third: Go beyond words. The idea is to present puns in a visual format with our characters acting them out.

The following excerpts from “Jest for the Health of It!” by Mack Rowe and Neil Shawen (copyright 2001) show the creative process at work ‘behind the curtain’ in the world of MackToons:

The second puntification: Develop a theme.

Each PunToon is built around a subject or theme. So we go beyond a simple collection of single unrelated word puns. After all, we certainly don’t want to appear un-themely!

As you can see the theme here is old-time movie stars.