4/15/2023 0 Comments Simple comic strip![]() Don't worry about having the coolest-sounding dialogue or using flowery language, the most important thing is that people can work their way from the top left to the bottom right and not have to stumble around trying to figure out what you mean. The most important thing about writing a comic is making sure the person reading it can understand it. ![]() You don't have to draw a line around them but you can if it's handy for telling your story.) (The 'panels' are the boxes that contain the pictures. (The simple but funny story was written for me by a group of five-year-old girls in Paddington Library.) It's not complicated: a character and four panels for something to happen. I sometimes make rough comics like this Hourly Comic, where the project was to draw a panel or a set of panels during that one day for every hour that I'm awake:Īnd here's a more polished comic that I drew with pen and then and coloured digitally. ![]() There are different levels of polish you can put on a comic, and sometimes it's more important just to get a comic made, than to make it perfect. (He's kindly let me post the whole comic, which I'll include in the comments section.) Tom Gauld draws brilliantly but he often keeps things incredibly simple:Įdit: My studio mate Gary Northfield made a whole comic just showing the same leaf, over and over. (It looks it's drawn with a paintbrush and ink, or brush pen, and coloured with watercolour paint.) You don't always need to have complicated backgrounds see this comic in a series about people's Deep Dark Fears by Fran Krause. Randall Munroe communicates ideas very effectively with stick people on his webcomic blog xkcd: But there are some popular cartoonists out there who deal almost entirely with clever writing, such as Ryan North, who uses the same pictures but changes the dialogue in his Dinosaur Comics. Most of my favourite comics are by people who draw well, but most of the creators I follow have improved a lot since I first started following them you'll get better with practice. Joamette Gil's list of webcomics with black lead characters with links Stephen Collins - weekly Guardian comic stripĭan Berry - Dan also does a great series of podcasts interviewing cartoonists on his Make It Then Tell Everybody website.Īlso check out Maura McHugh's list of female comic creators in Europe with links Philippa Rice and her webcomic My Cardboard Life - fun use of collage! Kate Beaton (comics about history, literature, some autobiographical comics) Note: not all the content may be appropriate for young children.) ![]() If you're looking for some online comics, here are a few creators and their comics that have inspired me. Don't stop exploring if you don't like the first few comics you read: there are as many kinds of comics out there as there are other kinds of books: cooking comics, superhero comics, crime comics, romance comics, autobiographical journal comics, travel comics, journalist reportage comics, the list goes on! There are lots of places you can find comics: newspapers and newspaper websites, magazines, comics websites, your local library, bookshops and comics shops are the most obvious places. * I'm not sure what kind of comics I like! How do I find out? Here are some questions you might have, and I've done my best to answer them! Then someone on Twitter very reasonably asked, How would I even start? Let 2015 be the year more people from around the world take up cartooning/comics to tell their stories. JabberworksOn Twitter, one of my responses to the Charlie Hebdo tragedy was to post this:
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