Whither Webcomics?"It's my sincere belief that in ten years entire cottage industries will exist that do nothing but analyze the psychology behind horrible webcomics."
"Hey, why wait ten years?"
|
Whither Webcomics?
| "It's morning in America, Hackenbush, and you work the nightshift." Thursday, March 25, 2004 17. Due to extensive emotional trauma sustained as an infant, Fatima grows into a child sociopath "Fatima doesn't like people, I wager. "Family" she can tolerate, but "people" are automatically struck with the death glare. Observe." You "wager"? If this is your comic strip, why don't you know your own characters? 18. Too bad these suits are not from Child Protective Services "Yes, he gets mail at the Maharassa's. By now, Rafi spends more time at the Maharassa's than at his own apartment. Needy little man. You know it'll eventually get to the point where he lives there, sleeps there, but continues to claim he has an apartment somewhere." I wasn't wondering about this, knowing this does nothing for me or the comic, except make me wonder why Fuhr issued that bulletin. I'm not sure what purpose these pronouncements on her own work are serving; if it's making her story any easier to tell, then I must ask for whom is it making it easier to tell? "A thing that vexes me about text heavy comics is that I have to block out the neat background things. For example, you can't tell that in the background, there's a big Maharassa family portrait consisting of Padma, Nefertari, Rafi, Fatima, and Kailen." When I pause to ponder how Al Capp, Walt Kelly, and Charles M. Schultz solved the text vs. background issues without a Live Journal, I can only conclude that they must have been motherfucking geniuses. 20. Say there, Creatorix, they could use some background in those backgrounds. "Next week: How will Nefertari and Rafi survive without their Padma? Will Fatima be forced to run the household with her other two adult influences pining? Will little Kailen continue to try to put his finger in electric sockets? Will Padma realize he's missing his hat?" Ah. Previews of the explanation of the next explanation of the next comic. Ah. Posted by Ginger Mayerson @ 08:50 PM PST [Link] Wednesday, March 24, 2004 Problematic I (aka or will be someday Friendly Hostility) 1. Would you leave your baby with this man? Based on this set of strips I have come to the following conclusion: These characters are low-lifes; the kind of people who do lose these kids to the State out of stupidity and/or laziness. I've no idea how this comic is charming or whom it is supposed to charm. Another strange aspect of this comics is the creator - or creatorix as she wishes to be called for some arcane reason - K. Sandra Fuhr's ex cathedra explanations, elaborations, whatnot in the Friendly Hostility LJ. So, my question is why is it necessary to explain a comic strip? Comic strips usually do a pretty good job of explaining themselves. That's why graphic journalism and graphic novels are such a big deal. Posted by Ginger Mayerson @ 06:54 PM PST [Link] |
| Want to know when this site updates? Click here.
The E-mail Policy If you send it, it's mine to do with as I see fit, so consider how you want your words to look in html. Writings Whither Webcomics?
Erotica, Utopia and Judicial Proceedings Fodder Utopia ah, someday... |
[Blogives]
Search entries:
Want to know when this site updates?
All rights reserved.