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by Andrew
Sat Aug 02, 2003 9:30 pm
Forum: (Web)Comics Theory: ART
Topic: Bubble order
Replies: 19
Views: 14282

I ran into a word balloon tail problem just recently, and I ended up removing the characters from the panel entirely and having no tails on the text, just different fonts.

http://castlezzt.net/tr0002.gif

Does this work?
by Andrew
Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:29 am
Forum: Morning Improv
Topic: Junk Bar
Replies: 56
Views: 73484

I would have NO IDEA how to end this.
by Andrew
Sat Jul 19, 2003 11:26 pm
Forum: (Web)Comics Theory: ART
Topic: Technique: Decrying the "Pregnant Pause"""
Replies: 46
Views: 35654

Jokes are almost always funnier when viewed from a non-moving vantage point in the middle distance. This is why you can immediately tell funny tv commercials from commercials with other intented emotional tones, before anything even happens. I'd like to see an example of a long panel being better us...
by Andrew
Mon Jul 14, 2003 10:41 pm
Forum: (Web)Comics Theory: ART
Topic: Technique: Decrying the "Pregnant Pause"""
Replies: 46
Views: 35654

I hear the complaint by somebody here in which a four panel comic is draw presented in a square as a usual format and the excuse of people saying that a panel without dialog can indicate a "beat" for timing. In both of these cases the problem can be solved by making the punchline panel longer wide....
by Andrew
Tue Jul 08, 2003 2:28 pm
Forum: (Web)Comics Theory: ART
Topic: Technique: Decrying the "Pregnant Pause"""
Replies: 46
Views: 35654

Funny verbal exchanges often contain a pause near the end. When I think of the ones I've had in real life, they more often do than not, I think. I would argue the reason they crop up is that the four panel format calls them to mind, not because people really have a three panel joke that they have to...