we dont have the same culture of funnies pages as they do in america, i wonder if they have better ones...
the e.c. segar popeye strips are amazing, and i know there's stuff like krazy kat that old school people like but i dont really get it. also the perry bible fellowship is really good, but there's no way he does one of them each day.
i aim to discover why these strips are so rubbish. is it the three panel format which is limiting? or the sheer volume of ideas needed for a daily strip? -most probably the latter. when i am finished my current projects, probably in october, i am going do an experiment where i have to do an amusing (or not) comic strip every day for a month, and then we'll see how hard it is. i'll have to do it in my lunch break at work so i'll be limited to about 40 minutes, but it should be interesting.
why dont you try it yourself? and i'll see you next time....
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Would it be kneejerky to say that strip's a pile of sexist nonsense.
I like these:
http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/meatlocker/index.html
there's a bloke I work with who shares the Nemis with me. He sees me reflected in them, or summat.
in response:
1) i think thats the point
2) yes red meat is excellent.
3) being compared to nemi? depressing.
i agree, nemi is a waste of all of our time, i don't think there's anything wrong with a three or four panel format, it seems to work well with doonesbury, penny arcade, pvp and peanuts... waitaminute... thery're all american...
as for the british stuff, i'd add steve bell's "If..." to the list.
i dont get doonesbury and i really hate the way he draws noses, although i appreciate the fact that it's a bit more high brow than the usual.
whats pvp?
yeah, i had a frickin' awesome response to that, but blogger just swore at me then i spent all my wit and charm at the comics forum.
follow the link, my friend. but i'd recommend this one
yeah, i know what you mean about doonesbury and i agree that it's difficult to get into, mainly due to the legion of characters... i read a collection of strips and it was lovely.
thanks for the link- i had a look and i dont care for it.
as an update to this post, i've being sketching a few ideas and i've already come up with about ten strips, although they vary in quality, but its an interesting challenge and i'm looking forward to it.
I know I'm coming to this discussion a bit late, but you're right, the newspaper three-panel strips in this country are generally bollocks.George and Lynne is possibly one of the best examples of all that is bad in the genre.Nemi, apparently, is Norwegian or something. Not that that makes it any better. I remember Kev F. Sutherland (who now draws the Bash Street Kids amongst loads of other things) once recommending that strip to us as a 'good' example of what could be done when he was talking to us as part of the StripSearch course I was on. Still don't like it, though.
There's a couple of small press books called Lost Property 1&2 which I did some three panel strips for (Prince Phillip was the star of the strips I did!) which are worth checking out. They were put together by Dave Evans, one of the FutureQuake guys, and I recommend them whole-heartedly. My favourite was a strip called Big Dog which is brilliant.
Seeing as comics as we know them today evolved from newspaper strips, it's about time the genre was treated with a bit more respect.
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