Exquisite Cartoon Corps

Editorial cartoonist Jim Borgman - winner of virtually every honor and award in his field - jumped headlong into the world of blogging several months ago. I've always enjoyed his evergreen wit, and the new online format affords the opportunity to peek behind the scenes at the notes in his sketchbook.

It's worth a regular visit, or a newsfeed subscription.

In one of his latest posts he throws out the idea of making available a way for the audience to participate in a more visual discussion of the events of the day. Instead of adding comments readers would upload sketches, cartoons, and drawings of various kinds in a pictorial the back-and-forth.

The concept of visual dialogue brings to mind the surrealists, who invented a game (the "Exquisite Corpse") in the 1920s by which various artists could contribute in a group collage. Adding something similar to information-age discourse could add some sorely-needed variety to the proceedings - which too often consists of braying, too-verbal loudmouths like myself.