not everybody’s cut out for “normal”

Another new car­toon for the Racks­pace series.…

Basi­cally, I took the old “George” idea and re-jigged it, adding the tra­de­mark Racks­pace red & black.

And hey, it worked.

I see this car­toon going in the slide deck of Rackspace’s recruiters.

We’re not a ‘nor­mal’ com­pany  etc. It’s OK not to be ‘nor­mal’ etc. ‘Nor­mal’ is boring etc.

It’s easy for a small com­pany to have a dis­tinct per­so­na­lity. Much har­der when the com­pany has grown a lot, like Racks­pace has done in the last few years.

Much har­der to NOT be normal…

[Com­mis­sion your own car­toon from gaping­void etc.]

Comments

  1. This reminds me of the Simpson’s epi­sode when Homer had to go to work in a pink shirt, and he said; “But, I’m not popu­lar enough to be different.”

    John
    Lea­ming­ton Spa, England

  2. valerie pfeiffer says:

    you always put a smile on my face — thank you for that :)

  3. I love the message.

    What do you think of a ver­sion of this car­toon where the red guy looks a little dif­fe­rent other than just his color (i.e. he’s taller, or has two hands, or is facing a dif­fe­rent direc­tion, etc) ?

  4. Hi!

    This kind of car­toons are warmly wel­co­med were I come from. What is nor­mal and what isn’t? Is there anything that is per­fectly nor­mal in this world? I don’t know.

    I think much of the same ques­tions than you on my blog, but a bit more twis­ted way, I guess. Check it if you can and leave your com­ment on it:

    http://biworldofdaniel.blogspot.com

    :)

  5. Well, car­toon says something then it would give bene­fit of using it, if it is loo­king just car­toon then it is not so good.

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  1. […] The car­toon above? Just see­med to fit this blog post. It was done by Hugh Mac­leod for Racks­pace in a post tit­led “not everybody’s cut out for ‘normal.’” […]

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