I loved the sound of “Dolorous,” but realized I didn’t want to create something that would elicit a feeling of great sorrow or distress. “Drollery” came to mind as I worked on possible approaches. I decided that I could present the sadness of Dolorous with the whimsy of Drollery through cartoons. Cartoonists can capture explicit human emotion in simple but concise line art: The face of Charlie Brown can say everything. I took cartoons from the Internet into Photoshop, modified and rebuilt them from poor quality low resolution, stripped any color out, and sometimes reoriented an arm, or head tilt. Finding enough relevant cartoons for four scenarios took a strong familiarity with the cartoon strips to pull the disparate pieces together to tell their dolorous stories. I added the gloomy cloud and cutout letters on top to frame the piece.