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Give me a disease!

Posted by Turbo-Assassin - October 8th, 2012


Aloha!

We all agree that death and disease are bad and wrong, yeah? But unfortunately most of us will die of death and disease at some time in our life.

For years doctors and boffins have tried to cure us of our ills, only to - ironically - die themselves before finding a resolve.

Is it any wonder that death has been a subject of fascination to philosophers, psychologists, doctors and, yes, even us humble Flash artists, since time immemorial?

That is why I have decided to make a cartoon about every single disease known to mankind!

To start the ball rolling I have just uploaded a cheeky cartoon about one of my favourite diseases of all time... leprosy!

Hopefully this will be the beginning of a lifelong endeavour to document all the disease and death that we, as Earthlings, have yet to come to terms with.

Perhaps, through the art of crap cartoons, we can absolve ourselves of the fear of our own mortality and instead sit back and have a little giggle as we are eaten away from the inside by the claws of cancer.

Unfortunately, I am reasonably healthy, so it doesn't look like I'll be contracting any terminal diseases in the near future, let alone dying of something tropical and cool.

That is why I would like to open the floor to anyone who has any interesting disease ideas/anecdotes which they would like to share with me. Perhaps a family member contracted something after an exotic sabbatical. Perhaps you're a student of medicine and are clued up on rare ailments.
Or perhaps you yourselves have battled with aggressive ringworm (Shit! That's a great idea!).

Any ideas/anecdotes would be greatly appreciated and will be invaluable in helping me construct the most unnecessary cartoon series of all time! I will then probably shove them all in a video together in a cartoon compendium of curious conditions, and dump it on the internet somewhere.

ACE!

I... I love you,

Turbo (culosis). xxx

P.S: I'm actually being serious.

Give me a disease!


Comments

Uhm...
Being addict to sex?
That's actually a disease...

I was sorta thinking more about physical diseases (more fun to animate!) rather than mental, but you may be onto something.

"...most of us will die of death and disease at some time in our life."
Usually it happens towards the end of your life.

Most of us will die of death and disease at some time in our life.

But we can also die of fat and war.

"most of us will die of death"
interesting observation.

polio

According to Wikipedia, Polio can be spread by the "fecal-oral route". Maybe I can do something with that. We'll see...

Thanks, Skipper!

Rare ailments, you say?

Well, one of the rarest conditions known to medicine is Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva. in which muscles, tendons, and ligaments gradually turn into bone, eventually leaving the afflicted individual completely unable to move; hence the name "Stone Man Syndrome". If you can find humor in something that horrifying, well, color me impressed.

Additional info, as always, on wickerpoedia:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_os sificans_progressiva</a>

YIKES! Now we're in business!

Thanks a lot, RIGg0rMORtis!

Harlequin babies are hilarious, but I doubt you'd be able to top Catoblepas' entry.
How 'bout gout? Nobody's done gout!
Strabismus is supposedly what gave Marty Feldman his bug-eyes. I'll bet that would play well in your style.
Radiation poisoning paints a pretty picture.
Yellow Fever could be a barrel of monkeys. Or Rabies for that matter.

HA HA! Awesome stuff, Clubbaseal!
I could definitely do something with Strabismus or Rabies.

The world is full of great diseases!

You sir, are quite different. We need more people like you on this planet! Here is one you might be able to use! It's called Elephantiasis. The extreme enlargement of a body part due to a malfunction in the lymphatic vessels! There's been documented reports of people's scrotums swelling to the size of basket balls!

Thanks man! :D

Elephantiasis would be a great one to animate, loads of fun with bloated scrotum's!

Are you still working on these? Paranoia ought to spark some innovative ideas. :)

At the moment I'm working on two things which are vaguely disease/ ailment based.

I actually wrote a "script" around the idea of paranoia a while ago and may even have a voice actor interested, so who knows what the future holds!

Thanks for the suggestion, dude!

:D