What makes this article for me isn’t the references to deer going bonkers (damn little deathtraps) but the obviously-written-by-a-reader tone of the article. My favorite phrase is “Wisconsin residents will have nine days from this Saturday to blow living hell out of as many deer as they can”. Yeah, that’s how the pros word it, too.
Yearly Archives: 2006
A brilliant piece of journalistic discovery
Turkey day has come and gone…
I stuffed myself on chicken liver and egg, spinach dip, hot crab dip, turkey, peanut soup, oyster stuffing, mashed potatoes, creamed onions, sweet potatoes, crescent rolls, shrimp, wine, mince meat and pumpkin pie, and cappucino.
I’m thankful for all of the bounties I enjoyed today, as well as the happy family I shared them with. I wish you and yours equal blessings and bounties not only today, but every day.
YouTube – WKRP – Thanksgiving Turkey Drop
This one goes way, waaaaay back. WKRP was on TV when I was so little that I’ve only seen it in reruns. Still, even if you’ve never seen the show a day in your life, you’ll get a kick out of the Thanksgiving Turkey Drop.
Foiled again
The Silent Penultimate Panel Watch
When I first started drawing comics, I tried to draw every comic with a full (or almost-full) view of all the characters, full backgrounds, no cut-and-paste characters, and accounting for almost every minute of the characters lives.
I also, strangely, almost ever used the beat panel, or as some apparently call it, the Silent Penultimate Panel (SPP).
It’s been almost two years since I started drawing comics (December 14th being the anniversary) and a lot has changed. I still have to physically stop myself from drawing all of every character. I still draw fairly detailed backgrounds, but even I don’t know where the hell Lila’s desk is or why it’s surrounded by a sea of orange. My anti-cut-and-paste stance made it about 6 comics, and I do skip around a bit more in characters’ lives (because, really, walking around and stuff gets pretty boring).
March 27, 2005, was the first comic I posted where the empty panel didn’t just stand for the passage of time or a different camera view, but the first true “beat panel” I attempted wasn’t until April 29, 2006.
Even now I’m kind of torn on them. They take up a lot of space, comic-wise, and don’t accomplish as much, and I’m not sure I’m good enough a writer to really say that they’re effective when I use them. So I try to avoid them (though lately I’ve abused them a bit).
And maybe that’s a good thing, because today I found The Silent Penultimate Panel Watch, a blog specifically dedicated to display the abuse of beat-panels. Veeeeery eeenteresting. And definitely has me thinking more about my timing.
Is that supposed to be good news?
