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Thursday, November 20, 2014
THERAPY FOR POETS (A THEORY CORNER COMIC)
I'm not scheduled for a new post today but I just stumbled on this comic I made a while back and I couldn't resist putting it up again...right now. Be warned: it's a little hard to follow, and there's some misspelled words (but the word "Commics" is deliberately misspelled). It's about what happens when a hard-core realist like Joan Crawford joins a group therapy session for poets.
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Is it far easier to do the essays in Comic form, than to pull the pics into Blogger and caption them? It probably is.
ReplyDeleteI sure am getting some Kurtzman Fumetti nostalgia when you are mixing up the source images.
But again, I post before I read, because I have to open the pages in other tabs to read them at this size. Read. Read. Read. Read.
Stream of consciousness-a-rama! Might you perhaps be using a dart board or wheel of fortune to choose the images, then seeing how you might be able to glue them together thematically?
You are a silly sausage Eddie old bean (would that make it beans and sausage... a heart mix... bit of mustard and all that). Anyway this is another cracker. On the subject of romance, where would we be without it? Probably have less scars and more money... now you tell me, what kind of a whack job thinks that is a good scenario?
ReplyDeletehaha, that was unsettling!
ReplyDeleteJoan Crawford always steals the picture.
ReplyDeleteWithout romance man might enjoy more personal wealth but every warped being could also tell you how many beans were in a given can prior to opening. Sanity is a trade-off.
ReplyDeletewhere you find all those pretty
ReplyDelete30s looking girls?
wowwowwow!
what is this comics program? i could use it for my comics (which you can view by checking out my blog Coyote Cereal (shameless self promotiont)).
ReplyDeleteHey Eddie, Long time reader first time commenter! This blog is a daily inspiration for me to think deeper about my craft.
ReplyDeleteI have recently started an instructional blog of my own.
http://ucandraw.blogspot.com/2009/04/lesson-1-add-details.html this is my first lesson. Future lessons will include composition, basic gag writing, backgrounds and character designs.
Me thinks Mr F uses
ReplyDeletehttp://plasq.com/comiclife
on his Mac
Not sure what is out there for PC that is geared so specifically towards this sort of layout
Awesome!
ReplyDeleteHans: Comic Life, that's it, but bo dart board. I didn't know the images looked that random.
ReplyDeleteI have that ComicsLife program on my Mac too. I'd like to try to use it in the near future.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're making good use of it, Eddie.
Some men like eyebrows, and all men love Joan Crawford. J.J. Hunsucker couldn't stop talking about her.
ReplyDeleteDear Eddie,
ReplyDeleteI would like to thank you for using my photograph in your illustrious comic. Your story is compelling, and the way that you used my photograph as that mesmerizing character was magic. You even have that bitch Bette Davis seething with jealousy because you didn't use her photograph.
Bless you,
Joan Crawford
HAHAHAHAHA where's all the men?
ReplyDeleteYou've got a lot of explaining to do for how you found that picture, Eddie
i really enjoyed reading that, just letting you know
ReplyDeleteI think what I meant with the dart board comment was the cartoonists analog to the old lyrics or the tune question songwriters get.
ReplyDeleteBecause there is obviously some thematic similarity there. Three bands of similar imagery perhaps. The juxtaposition seems possibly serendipitous though.
But did you let the images suggest the story, or did you have the themes in mind then seek images that might work?
Hans: No dart board, it's more thought-out than that, but I'm limited to the available images and time. That means I have to modify what I want to write about when I find that I can't adequately show it in pictures.
ReplyDeleteHere I wanted to discuss romance, but halfway through I discovered that I didn't have the right pictures for it, so I changed the emphasis.
Ha! Brilliant, Eddie!
ReplyDeleteJoan Crawford's swell but she's got nothing on A.M. Bush. Just sayin'.