Cartoon – product bar code as prison bars

Illustration. A bar code as a symbol of consumerism

Bar code cartoon.
Bar codes as prison bars

A person locked into the consumer society, symbolised by a bar code as bars of a prison
A metaphor for the way that people can become trapped by dependence on consumerism

A cartoon about capitalism, money, spending, debt, credit cards

Drawn: 4th November 2009
Cartoon reference number: bar001