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I love the idea of bubbles. It would be cool to illustrate people inside their bubbles sometime!

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Sometimes it feels like everyone I draw is inside their bubbles. Especially on the buses and trains!

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Oh, for sure. I meant physically illustrating that point. Could be pretty cool to show how we're all isolated even within "community."

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Ah, interesting. I'll think about that!

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Just wondering if there were fewer private bubbles before the mobile phone came into our lives. I can no longer remember.

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I would think so. The example I think of is Google Maps. How much did we need to pay attention to signs, street intersections, and landmarks before we could just 'map it' to a place?

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This was a super cool edition. I looked at each panel and thought about myself having been in many bubbles in those situations, yet I never thought about it that way.

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Thank you, I'm glad you liked it. Indeed these are very regular scenes! It would be interesting if you notice them in a different light from now on. :)

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A very interesting question/comment. Your sketches and passage prompted me to think back and remember how I was one of those individuals in my person bubble, focusing on just myself and oblivious to all around me. There were moments when I did choose to focus on a person or 2 to think about, wondering what their life was like, whether they had worries or if they were happy, wondering what they were thinking about, and so on.

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I like this a lot. Yet, in my minds eye I see a comic with two scenes: A bunch of bubbles all around 1 bubble which says introvert. Next scene: a bubbles popping the introvert bubble stays in center. Then you have another comic with two scenes: A bunch of bubbles all around 1 bubble which says extrovert. Here the bubbles are all attached to each other around the extrovert bubble and all of them have smiles on.

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That's a lovely representation, Lucy!

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