weeooo! This is quickly becoming my favorite of the three storylines. I hope by coming back to storylines we’ve already touched on, it is becoming clear that this is it. ? Hope readers didn’t think these stories were “told” (badly) and abandoned. no no, the point is to weave them.
anywho. Ehhh. I had a lot of fun writing up the text for this set of … from the “wrapped woman” story. (I have another name for it, but i guess it would be telling). Anywho. THE WRITING! wee.
Basically, I only scripted actions, and maybe a scrap or two of dialogue, for all of the remaining strips. Hardly polished. So it’s been fun laying out the art (which I do quickly in a little sketch book, to figure it out). And even more fun trying to fill three lines, approximately panel width with excessive description. The second box in this one is actually a little TOO wide. maybe. It’s wider than a single frame of the comic would be, if these were cut into three frames. But I enjoy the rambling rhymey alliterative text so much I couldn’t cut it down.
I don’t know if I’m actually succeeding in conveying the old style of excessively narrated EC comics. But I’ve never really tried this style of comic (where the picture tells the story, and the words are just there to accentuate details. and describe smells. nyuk nyuk).
woof.
anywho.
Wish I had the balls to stick more thick blacks in there. Probably go back and slap a bunch of black all over all this later. Hopefully.
wee.
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