For a few months in late 2014, as you can read in the contemporary entries on the About page, the format at The Hero of Three Faces was a "slideshow" format with the characters "lightly animated" as here. This was the cartoon I drew to introduce the format when I came up with it, being based on the most popular short piece I created when I invented triangle caricatures before the internet for home animation on an Amiga 500 with no extra storage or memory. My best work is always inspired by people named Charles M., I guess. When I decided the slideshow format wasn't working (it was a lot more work for me and no readers commented on the change either way), this is one of a few which I left in slideshow format while I converted the rest of the months-old post-2014 archive back to panel-per-screen. But there are older and newer cartoons which still have animated panels - particularly sketches - as you will have noticed already if you're reading the archive in production or chronological order.

In 2014 I drew this for the Doctor's fifth incarnation. Often when looking for inspiration for the next cartoon's gagwriting, I will look to the spreadsheet where I track the existing gags' chronology and see what's the biggest chronological gap to fill. Most recently I've been rotating through the eras of the Doctor's incarnations irregularly instead of filling the biggest gap overall every time, because some eras are overrepresented and the others need to be manually favored. When in 2014 I drew this I made the choice based on that present moment's gap. But this gag was originally conceived for the Doctor's third incarnation, as suggested by the presence of his automobile Bessie. I always felt that it fits that era better and eventually I changed it.