hotelfred.bsky.social
Cartoonist. Epitaph will read "Drew the Muppets and died". Immigrant. Causing incalculable damage to the country since 1990.
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It'll be up on the web store in a couple of weeks, after London Film & Comic Con - I want to give the convention crowds first crack at it. I'll post about it when it's available.
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I was doing diary comics as my personal project for five years so it was on the back burner for a while. Always intended to get back to it eventually but it took longer than I thought!
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I don’t remember this phenomenon (despite being older than Keith Richards’ scrotum), but it sounds like a cross between Andy Warhol and that Love and Rockets cover from 1988-ish (#25?)
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All different kinds. I didn't really notice until I started putting some of them in my comics, and then I could see how totally unlike each other they were.
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I love that this one has an actual name!
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Yeah, fair. His creative input was definitely problematic, but he absolutely did some good as well.
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Steady now
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By @matthewgallison.bsky.social
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Whether you're a Googam or whether you're a Boojum
You're invadin' the Earth, invadin' the Earth
Feel the city screamin' and everybody fleein'
We're invadin' the Earth, invadin' the Earth
Eek! Ooh! Aagh! Aah! (etc.)
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Brydon’s Steve Coogan impression tends to start with an anguished moan that leaves you in no doubt who it’s meant to be
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I couldn’t find anything about why in the article. Maybe the dinosaurs? Fuck knows.
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I think there’s a lot of truth to that
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Yeah, I think it depends on the comic. Like I say, worked great in DKR. It should be a matter of the right tool for the story, though, rather than the industry-wide practice we’ve got now.
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Cracked it
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One more thought: an omniscient narrator or authorial voice can be really useful sometimes. You want that to be clearly different from a character’s internal monologue.
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Well, I think balloons are more immediate/immersive; captions have a distancing effect to me. Also, way easier with ensemble casts, instead of having to decode the key to each caption, which isn’t always obvious. Captions work great when there’s one dominant POV (e.g. DKR) but lack flexibility.
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Yes - wife and I both have elderly parents who are not comfortable with technology (or in my mother-in-law’s case is blind) and live overseas
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Congratulations, you seem like a great fit for them!
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The truly liberating thing about webcomics (& specifically about learning in public doing a webcomic) is it's ephemeral, even more than a minicomic. If it's an embarrassment in two years, take it down! Only a handful of psychos will remember. Meanwhile, you're learning by showing up and doing it.
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He’s blocked me despite me not actually interacting with him here (or on Twitter IIRC) ever. Purely because I contributed to the book, I think.
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I defer to your expertise, Doctor The Frog!
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I don’t know, I just hear that it may have (early detection if cancers for example) and am not qualified to comment further because it’s not my field. Whereas I work in the creative sector and feel qualified to have an opinion on that.
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The second issue of this series (missed the first until later) was the first time I saw Jerry Ordway's work. What can I tell you, I was excited.
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Just as a standalone story it's beautifully done, but it hit so hard if you'd been following them for years
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Love this! (And a shout-out to @blitzcadet.bsky.social for designing the characters in the first place; they’re, er, perfect.)
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Dan. Dan. This is obviously about stabbing yourself with a knitting needle while jumping on a trampoline
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Is it potentially useful in e.g. a medical context? Yes. Does it have absolutely no business being involved with anything that could remotely be considered a creative field? Also yes.
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I’d like to think we’ve advanced. Maybe I’m the old-fashioned one.
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Living in a country with an actual king, can I just say I'm absolutely fine with "No Kings, No Crowns". I would go so far as to say more than fine. I speak for many of my fellow countrymen.
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I like “visual onomatopoeia” - gets the idea across very well, I think.
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I try to do this every so often (lettering, too!) just to keep my hand in, as it were. I guess to reassure myself that if the machines went tomorrow I’d still be okay.
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Great - will grab the lot!
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I was not aware of this series until now! Do you have work in every issue? Love your stuff.
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One of the privileged few I’ll allow!
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Thank you (again)!
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Depends what kind of ink, but if soap and water aren’t doing the trick, maybe hand sanitiser?