by ReverseEngineer » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 20:57:53
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EDIT: To help with the time issue of all the drawing, you could make a few stock close-ups of the characters (that could be repeated) just for the sake of having more dialog. Like, have a few standard poses for each character that you could cut and paste.
I'm not saying make the whole comic that way, just use it to give more back and forth dialog without overburdening the artist.
I am pretty sure that is standard fare for most published cartoons. I have a full-color Dilbert cartoon calendar on my desk, you
can see that a lot of the characters, especially old pointy-ears himself, they are the same. Just the backdrop changes.
But good suggestion none-the-less.
The genius in FlapJax's drawings are in the details he puts into them, but clearly it takes a lot of time to draw them up this way. I don't think he can continue to draw the Doomstead Diner in this much detail, though of course I would love it if he did. However, the second strip has 9 panels, and its even more detailed so if he tries to draw it with as much detail as I am putting in, then I think it will take too much time.
Dilbert has very stark backgrounds, very simple cartoon characters. FlapJax draws rich backgrounds and Caricatures more than simple cartoons. I love the stuff, but it probably needs to be simplified quite a bit to make it possible to draw so many panels. I'm not an artist though, so I really don't know how long it takes him to draw what he does.
We'll see how it evolves I hope.