Character Casting Comparisons

I looked all over the internet for something like this, but came up empty. So, I just made it myself.

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Culinary Conundrum

State Start Shape

Virginia has always looked like an upside-down "V" to me, so I recently decided to see what other states could look like the letter they begin with.

Same Difference

I've always liked knowing the sizes of things, and I thought I'd heard a while ago that the size of Earth compared to Jupiter was the same as the size of an electron compared to a proton. Well, I looked it up, and it turns out that scientists don't actually know how big an electron is, which makes it rather hard to compare it to anything. But the idea of finding the same differences in sizes between things got stuck in my head, so I decided to do a graphic about it.

ABCD

I decided to give myself a challenge, to see if I could illustrate my own special version of the ABCs. It turned out that “my own special version” was a lot more difficult to pull off than I expected.

Instead of choosing nouns that simply started with each letter of the alphabet, I wanted to see if I could find nouns that actually look like the letter they begin with. Well, this has been so hard to do, that I will have to complete the alphabet in shifts. I’ll do four letters at a time, and post them as I finish them. For now, here are the first four: