Cartoons play an important role in discussions of how solar flares and CMEs work.
These discussion may take place in august forums, or in pubs at any point around the solar world. The idea of this page is to provide ready access to any or all of the cartoons people have sketched in efforts to explain how solar flares erupt, or how CMEs form. With this page, plus the Guinness Book of Records, any bar bet can probably be settled. In other words, in the absence of a theory, the predictions implied by a model will show up in a well-drawn cartoon. Also the cartoons can show us coronal field lines, which we cannot really see in any case.