Inventors Comics Collection

Last week's comic heads up this full collection of AndyT's "Inventors" cartoons, published each week in Electronic Design Weekly,
April 21, 2026
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Andy Turudic | Google Gemini
Black-and-white technology-oriented comic / cartoon series of a group of cavemen labeled “Inventors” standing outside a cave with a sign reading “Electronic De Sign,” greeting everyone; one wears a tie, and a small dinosaur held on a leash by a cave girl appears in the background.
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"Inventors" Comic Series Collection

by Andy Turudic

ElectronicDesign's Technology Editor Andy Turudic's (and occasionally a reader's concept) 2D take on inventors, engineers, scientists, tradespeople, students, and the workplace, as well as inventions, technology, and project limitations—illustrated by Andy using AI with a recurring cast of characters and all are originals containing his own unique recipe of humor, sarcasm, and cynicism along with a dash of curmudgeon.

The comic appears in ElectronicDesign Weekly - click on the comic to read about the developments and news in the issue at the time at which the comic was featured.

 

July 13, 2026

Andy Turudic | Open AI
Black-and-white cartoon titled “Inventors.” A group of injured prehistoric people stands outside a cave labeled “Reebrock,” with a cavewoman suggesting, “Maybe we should use the sap from the rubber tree for making the ball?” In front of the cave, a man kneels holding a trowel with mortar and a stone facet as he assembles a stone soccer ball made of hexagonal and pentagonal panels. The group is on crutches, and has leg casts and bandages and head bandages.The caption at the bottom reads, “How football suddenly got popular, worldwide.”

July 6, 2026

Andy Turudic | Gemini
Black-and-white cartoon of prehistoric inventors outside a cave labeled “U of Zoorock.” A speech bubble says, “Schrödinger, here, still has a few details to work out so we’re a coupla weeks behind schedule.” Several cavemen stand around a large saber-toothed cat sitting in a box frame that's way too small while one man appears to be taking notes; a dinosaur is visible in the background.

June 29, 2026

Andy Turudic | Gemini
A black-and-white comic titled “INVENTORS” shows a prehistoric-looking group gathered around a large stone with electronic circuits engravings on it “ANNA’S LOG DEVICES” is on a sign over the cave opening. Stone plates of AND, OR and other gates are strewn on the ground. One inventor explains, “The standard cells’ CAD symbols speed up our Chisel Aided Design process,” while a diagram inside the stone depicts a state-transition grid, surviving paths, and a metric calculator, turning modern chip-design jargon into a caveman-style scene.

June 22, 2026

Andy Turudic | OpenAI
Black-and-white cartoon titled “Inventors” showing a cave group standing outside a cave labeled “Space-Rex” beside a rocket, with a robot marked “Optimist” and a speech bubble about combining companies and lying about an expedition to India for spices to boost the IPO; caption at bottom reads “Elon Tusk gets greedy.”

June 15, 2026

Andy Turudic | OpenAI
Black-and-white cartoon with a company parody name over the cave as: “Dino Banana.” Three cave people stand outside a cave entrance, and one says, “With Australopithecus Intelligence, anyone can draw with AI text prompts.” Inside the cave, one person paints a hunting scene from looking at the other person's chiseled text: “CAVE PAINTING REALISTIC HUNTING SCENE,” suggesting a joke about early humans using prompts to create art.

June 8, 2026

Andy Turudic | OpenAI
Black-and-white cartoon titled “Inventors” showing cavepeople at “Paleo Alto Robotics” around a wooden humanoid robot labeled “Optimist.” One caveperson says, “It’ll take two years for PedX to walk our magnet order to Shenzhen, and two more to bring them back.” The caption at the bottom reads, “U.S. dependence on Chinese magnets started in the Ice Age.”

June 2, 2026

Andy Turudic | Google Gemini
A cartoon titled “Inventors” shows a cave-like Venture Capitalist office labeled “Neanderthal-Horowitz.” A group of prehistoric people gathers around a sign that has “TEST 1.2,” carved in a stone tablet in a dot matrix printer style while one bearded figure says, “We think the rental cart market might be lucrative for this.”

May 26, 2026

Andy Turudic | Google Gemini
Two prehistoric inventors stand beside a huge log slice marked with a grid pattern, with a sign in the background of the company name parody - “Anna’s Log Devices.” One says, “We expect to yield about 78% of the log amplifiers on this wafer.” Another character works on the log with a hammer and chisel, while a fourth watches nearby. The scene is a humor comic parodying semiconductor wafer production in a Stone Age setting.

May 19, 2026

Andy Turudic | Google Gemini
Black-and-white cartoon titled “URGG FOURIER’S NOT-SO-FAST TRANSFORM,” showing caveman-like inventors outside a cave labeled “ROAD & QUARTZ.” One man chips at a large stone with a hammer, revealing a frequency-plot graphic on the rock, while other prehistoric figures watch; a dinosaur stands in the background.

May 11. 2026

Andy Turudic | Google Gemini
Black-and-white comic of prehistoric “inventors” at a cave workshop labeled “Road & Quartz,” where one caveman has chiseled a waveform onto a round stone disk while two others look on. One of the two remarks, 'Now, hit your thumb and let's see the output', The caption reads, 'Early engineers get a new lab instrument.'

May 5, 2026

Andy Turudic | Google Gemini
A caveman scene at the entrance to a cave with a sight over it, “ROAD & QUARTZ,” with several prehistoric men gathered around a round stone wheel engraved with a recently chiseled sine wave, suggesting an early oscilloscope prototype. The caption reads, “The First Oscilloscope Prototype.”

April 28, 2026

Andy Turudic | Google Gemini
A black-and-white cartoon labeled “Inventors” and the company sign in the cartoon is a play on Caterpillar - “Marblepillar”. It shows a group of cavemen and cavewomen gathered outside a cave while one says, “We tested the new engine on the dino like you asked, boss.” In the center, a small dinosaur stands with a flaming engine strapped to its back, while a worried cave leader facepalms at what he sees.

April 21, 2026

Andy Turudic | Google Gemini
Black-and-white cartoon / comic about technology titled Inventors. A group of prehistoric cave people visits Paleolith Ventures, where an inventor pitches an early light device comprised of a bonfire under a glass LED-shaped dome. The investor says, 'I'm sorry, we only fund ideas with AI in them.' Caption: 'How humanity missed out on the first white LED

 

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