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> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:35:51 -0400, Robert McGregor wrote:
>>
>>> Anyway, the fact that Gilles has been able to create his web comic
>>> around your (mostly) silly posts is quite hilarious to me... Awesome
>>> work!
>>
>> Agreed - and I'm *so* glad there's an RSS feed for it, now I don't miss 
>> it ever, just part of my morning comics routine. :-)
>>
>
> Yup. Me, too ..
>
>
> Its amazing to me that a comic with no actual drawn character could work 
> so well. It really brings to light that it's the writing and not the 
> drawing that really creates a good comic. You could even draw stick 
> figures (see XKCD) and make a good comic, it truly is all in the writing.

Thanks to all who like the comic! I'm not sure how long I'll be able to do 
it (not much I guess) but it's quite fun to create, in a perverted way (the 
topic is really not that funny after all).
The challenge is interesting because there's so few degrees of freedom here. 
There's little room for text in a 4-panel strip. Note that while it's not 
"drawing" it's still a real exercise in graphics that uses the few visual 
resources that Powerpoint offers: : font, size font, colors, position of the 
speech bubbles, some premade vector art... Some future panels will break 
that mold though.
I don't think it's so much different from many panel strips out there where 
actual drawing consists in copying the same premade characters again and 
again. A lot of the comic strip tradition is really stand-up comedy on 
paper.
Strangely, I'm not very fond of "chatty" comics, as I prefer mute, 
expressive images (there are some wonderful Calvin & Hobbes episodes like 
this that look like Japanese engravings) but then it's much, much, much more 
difficult to do and requires actual drawing skills.

G.

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