#1601: Isolation explain

[Above each panel a year is written in a small box that breaks the top of the panels frame. Cueball is talking in all six frames. In the first frame he is standing between a standing guy with pageboy hairstyle and a sitting Ponytail. She is sitting in an armchair. Both are reading books. Cueball points towards them with his arms out.]

1840

Cueball: The modern bookworm is too busy reading about the world to look at it.

[Cueball is pointing to the left with both arms out towards Hairy who is sitting at a dining table with his breakfast eating something while reading his newspaper. On the table are a cup and a plate.]

1880

Cueball: No one talks anymore - we take our daily newspapers in silence.

[Cueball is pointing to the right with one arm at Megan who walks away from him while reading a magazine.]

1910

Cueball: The magazine is destroying conversation. We even read as we walk!

[Cueball is standing to the left. In the background Ponytail and Hairy is sitting on a rug in front of a TV standing on top of a small TV table. The TV is of the broad kind with cathode ray tubes and it has two antennas on top.]

1960

Cueball: Television has put an end to family discussion.

[Cueball is standing up in a bus holding on to a railing. To his left stands Ponytail and to his right sits Hairbun. Both of them are listening to their Walkman’s which they are holding in their hand while listening to them through headphones.]

1980

Cueball: Thanks to the Sony Walkman, anti-social isolation is now the norm.

[Cueball is standing to the left. Megan and another Cueball-like guy are standing to the right facing each other but looking down at their smartphones. Both are listening to them through their headphones.]

2015

Cueball: We’ve become too absorbed in our phones to notice the-

Megan: ***Dude. *** It’s been ***two centuries. ***

Megan: ***Take a hint. ***