[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX Cartooning

animationsgraphicstikz-pgf

Are there any Latex packages (or any other text based methods) to assist in cartooning i.e. creation of simple images representing real-life objects. Something as simple as the images on xkcd is good enough for me.

(FYI – Randall Munroe does use the old school technique of putting pen/pencil on paper)

To provide a sharper focus to the original question [above] – I need a package with an assortment of shapes of commonly seen tangible objects, such as cars, laptops, trees etc., with multiple anchors to finely control the final 'look' of this shape. I was especially looking for stick human figures. The Shape library in the TikZ/PGF library comes the closest from amongst what I have already seen, but not close enough.

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Thing	Package
Ducks	TikZducks
Marmot	TikZmarmot
Donkey	I need a donkey
other animals, birds	TikZlings, animal pond, `pst-fun`
vehicle	`pst-vehicle`
Lenny face	Lenny face question
fruits & vegetables	fruits question
bearwear	bear wear
Humans	tikzpeople, Custom “human” shape for tikz especially stickman
bats	halloweenmath (also maybe pumpkins, witches, ghosts, cats, and so on)
snowman	scsnowman
turtles	turtles
rabbits	rabbits question
fishes	fish question
more different ducks	top answers of ducks

The question that probably started all of this..

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}
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Thus, once you manage to rescale and include a single image file of the sequence to your liking using \includegraphics, you can readily re-use those settings with \animategraphics, e.g.

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convert -coalesce something.gif something.png

Option -coalesce of ImageMagicks' convert command undoes a possible optimization of the Gif file to be converted.

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