The Periscope

The Push Button Heads are up to no good this week, spying on each other and getting distracted by cuteness.

Everett Wilson

Apr 05, 2025

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Illustration of a character looking over a bush with a periscope.

Illustration of the top of a periscope moving in all directions with a caption that reads, Hmmm, Let's see what's out there.

Illustration of a cute golden puppy dog sleeping, framed within a circle suggested the view from a telescope.

Back to the illustration of a periscope looking around over some tall hedges with the caption, what else is out there?

Closeup of a character looking through a periscope frame within a circle suggested they are also being spied on. The caption reads, Now that's suspicious.

Wider view of a character with his dog looking through a periscope, framed within a circled suggesting someone else is looking at them through another periscope.

This is actually a reworked version of an early cartoon from my Push Button Heads series. Back then, I was continuously refining my colour palette, and I hadn’t fully embraced halftone texturing yet — those dots and lines that hark back to the days of traditional offset printing techniques where adding volume and shadows could be done without introducing additional colours.

Illustration providing examples from the above comic of how halftone patterns are applied to create shading. Arrows point to densely placed dots for darker greys, or fewer dots for lighter greys and to add shading over an existing colour.

Overall, I’m much happier with the simpler, limited colour scheme. For my paid subscribers, below is the original cartoon for comparison.

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