The above A&J favorite of mine is another excellent example of what I was talking about in the previous post. The writing and the drawing work in tandem, the essence of a newspaper comic strip. Or so some would say. I also enjoy a good pantomime comic, a complete idea represented without any words. I am always proud of myself when I produce such a strip. I think comic strips that are exclusively pantomime would be extremely difficult to turn out every day. That might explain why there are so few of them. They seem to have been much more popular in a bygone era. Conversely, many very popular strips have come along in the modern era that rely heavily upon dialog and spoken punchlines. It’s whatever you, the reader, judge to be worth five seconds of your time, really.
Sound Affect
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47 responses to “Sound Affect”
Good shorts? Mine is all general purpose cargo shorts, in the same light khaki color. Simplification.
What was JJ doing in Ithaca, NY, in ’48-’49, & was he old enough to understand Elaine & me?
https://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2020/06/30
Peace,
Sorry, that was emb trying to do 2 things at once.
Peace
Hope JJ is ok; we haven’t heard from him since last week
Wiki says JJ graduated HS in ’70. Suggests he wasn’t born yet in ’48-’49. Maybe Brooke realizes it’s an old story that bears retelling. Again, I am grateful. Peace,
The only item I’ve particularly noticed being short in our two local food markets is canned soup. Yet another reason to make your own…besides of course that homemade tastes better and is not loaded with salt.
“We were the first television generation! It all started with us ya know. We were bombarded with ads for toys and our guileless parents gamely went along. Compared to Hitler, everything else seemed harmless to them.”
Ah, true words indeed. Our guileless parent raised a generation of naive consuming sheep who cannot seem to recognize the evil in their government.