The Spreadsheet
A cartoon. The cartoonist's view is their own.
A kitchen table. A man of about seventy has covered it with printouts, arranged in a fan. His daughter, coat still on, has opened a laptop and is entering his printouts into a spreadsheet. He is watching her do it with an expression that is not hostile. Caption: "I'm not saying you're wrong, Dad. I'm saying let's find out together, and then one of us has to buy dinner."
The script
PANEL 1 | A kitchen table. A man of about seventy has covered it with printouts, arranged in a fan. His daughter, coat still on, has opened a laptop and is entering his printouts into a spreadsheet. He is watching her do it with an expression that is not hostile. Caption: "I'm not saying you're wrong, Dad. I'm saying let's find out together, and then one of us has to buy dinner."
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