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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Not a good writer, eh? Neither am I. I don't have what it takes to make
> a comic that people would continually return to and enjoy.
Tell me about it!
It seems most of the humour in my writings is because people are
laughing *at* me for being so stupid... :-/
> Not only
> that, but when something is just a hobby or side project often life gets
> in the way and I wind up not being able to see it through. Funny how I
> can complete huge projects at work, but stuff I do in my free time gets
> sidelined so much... :/
Heh. You have *no idea* how many half-finished programs I have sitting
on my harddrive. ;-)
There's 2 fractal generators, a ray tracer, several sorting algorithm
benchmarks, a lambda calculus evaluator (in both CLI and CGI versions),
a Mathematica clone, my reinvented Prolog thing, the half-done chunky
list implementation I was looking at, a stream fusion library, half of a
virtual machine emulator... you get the idea, yes?
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:35:51 -0400, Robert McGregor wrote:
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>>> 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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On Thu, 08 May 2008 13:02:23 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
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>...or, converstly, even if I could draw I'd still make a suckworthy
>comic. :-/
Now that is a skill that could be useful :)
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Regards
Stephen
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On Thu, 08 May 2008 12:51:54 +0100, "Phil Cook"
<phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
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>If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them,
>maybe you can hire the POV-Team; dum dum dum, dum dum da.
To be done after Pov ver 4.0 and Free Moray ;)
--
Regards
Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> To be done after Pov ver 4.0 and Free Moray ;)
Is Free Moray something like Free Willy?
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Thu, 08 May 2008 15:10:33 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
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>> To be done after Pov ver 4.0 and Free Moray ;)
>
>Is Free Moray something like Free Willy?
No it is like a free bus pass! You have to wait until you are too old
for it to be of any use :)
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Regards
Stephen
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Invisible wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>
>> To be done after Pov ver 4.0 and Free Moray ;)
>
> Is Free Moray something like Free Willy?
>
Free hagfish! Come an' getcher free hagfish!
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On Thu, 08 May 2008 06:41:24 -0500, Mike Raiford wrote:
> 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.
Absolutely - and I think even if you didn't know Andy, the episodes cover
things that are fairly common IRL, so it's got a good general appeal.
Jim
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On Thu, 08 May 2008 15:09:19 +0200, Gilles Tran wrote:
> there are some wonderful Calvin & Hobbes episodes like this that look
> like Japanese engravings
Agreed - I have a couple that are in my daily list that are fairly chatty
- and they're there just so I can skip them. Which I know is weird, but
growing up I'd read comics in the newspaper, and I'd skip them there as
well. If I didn't include them, it wouldn't feel right for some reason
(I tried that once).
Jim
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Invisible wrote:
> It seems most of the humour in my writings is because people are
> laughing *at* me for being so stupid... :-/
Is anyone else finding this thread bizarrely self-referential?
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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