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<h2 id="themes-and-visual-motifs">Themes and Visual Motifs</h2>
<p>Like many artists, Sam Brown uses many recurring themes and visual motifs in his explodingdog work.
</p><p>A short list of visual motifs:
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<ul><li>Stick figures</li>
<li>Red robots</li>
<li>Fish (frequently yellow)</li>
<li>Stars</li>
<li>Clouds</li>
<li>Monsters</li>
<li>Menacing cityscapes</li>
<li>Snakes</li>
<li>Ducks</li>
<li>Dogs</li>
<li>Dictators</li>
<li>Orange cones, which are, apparently, a game of sorts</li>
<li>Rockets</li></ul>
<p>A short list of recurring themes:
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<ul><li>Loss</li>
<li>Love</li>
<li>Joy</li>
<li>Loneliness</li>
<li>Menace</li>
<li>Confusion</li>
<li>Freedom</li></ul>
<h2 id="influence">Influence</h2>
<p>Over the years, there have been a number of different artistic projects inspired by explodingdog.  These sites usually utilize the same "submitted by random people, and selected for inspiration" concept that explodingdog pioneered.
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<h3>Webcomics</h3>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Whispered_Apologies/nYjQu5mr">Whispered Apologies</a> — An inversion of the explodingdog format in which artists submit comics to the site, and writers give the submitted comics text.</li>
<li>Boring3D</li>
<li><i><a href="/facts/Diesel_Sweeties/x8sG5kBd">Diesel Sweeties</a></i> – Traditional webcomic</li>
<li><i><a href="/facts/NatalieDee/4VUfAnh7">NatalieDee</a></i> – Daily webcomic</li>
<li>Critter Cuddles - Publishes a webcomic daily with daily drawings by email.</li></ul>
<h3>Music sites</h3>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Song_Fight!/kVUWAU7e">Song Fight!</a> — Originally started as a musical explodingdog spinoff, now a songwriting contest between multiple artists.</li>
<li>Request-A-Song.com The artists at this site took song title requests and turned them into original songs.</li>
<li>Songs To Wear Pants To this site will take any user submission of text/genre and turn it into a song.</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.explodingdog.com/">explodingdog</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personalities/sam_brown_of_exploding_dog.php/">July 2001 Interview</a> at <a href="/facts/The_Morning_News_(online_magazine)/lqpjPBpT">The Morning News</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.threeimaginarygirls.com/CWARSJuly04explodingdog.asp/">Three Imaginary Girls, July 2004</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060425143320/http://mediadiet.net/2003/05/good-experience-live-x.html">gel talk, May 2003</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2005-03-04/261180/">Austin Chronicle, March 2005</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080113225854/http://bostonist.com/2006/07/21/bostonist_interview_explodingdogs_sam_brown.php">Bostonist, July 2006</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/technology/online-diary.html?scp=1&sq=explodingdog&st=nyt/">NY Times, April 10, 2003</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.11/streetcred.html?pg=6/">Wired, Nov 2000</a></li>
<li>O'Brien, Danny (2006-02-26). "The tooniverse explodes". <i><a href="/facts/The_Sunday_Times/15om0zLf">The Sunday Times</a></i>. p. 27[S].</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>O'Connell, Pamela Licalzi (April 10, 2003). "NY Times, Online Diary". The New York Times. Retrieved May 23, 2022. <a href="https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E0D71F38F933A25757C0A9659C8B63&scp=1&sq=explodingdog&st=nyt/" target="_blank">https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E0D71F38F933A25757C0A9659C8B63&scp=1&sq=explodingdog&st=nyt/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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