Tom Toles style reference and prompts

High-contrast black-ink cartooning with near-solid dark masses, exposed white-paper light shapes, dense cross-hatching, and many fine converging rays. Tiny simple silhouettes against monumental diagonal illumination create scale and visual wit. Curved pen texture in shadows opposes calm horizontal ground marks. The page remains monochrome and materially hand-drawn, with meaning carried by graphic arrangement rather than lettering.

A square black-and-white editorial cartoon shows a tiny white sheet ghost and a round-headed child standing on a small rocky promontory at the edge of a dark sea. Both look upward at an enormous brilliant beam that slants down from a small circular opening in a ceiling of heavy black storm cloud. The ghost has only two oval eye holes; the child wears a simple dark outfit and cap-like round head shape. Their smallness emphasizes the scale of the luminous diagonal. A slender lighthouse stands far across the water at right, reduced to a quiet vertical accent. The foreground rock is described with tight black cross-hatching, while the ocean uses calmer horizontal marks. The cloud mass at top is nearly solid black, with dense curved pen strokes spiraling around the bright opening. The beam remains mostly unmarked white paper but is bordered by hundreds of thin converging ink lines. Strong graphic contrast carries the joke or mystery without needing written text. The composition is spare and carefully balanced: two small figures at lower left, the light cutting to upper right, and the distant tower stabilizing the horizon. Its hand-inked surface feels tactile and witty despite the supernatural subject.