When creating comics, especially gag cartoons, it’s better to get to the point as quickly as possible. Unnecessary words, images and details sometimes can ruin a good joke. I used to be NOTORIOUS for adding waaaay too much information, because I wanted it to be clear to everyone what I was trying to get across. Well, I learned that audiences aren’t stupid and I didn’t need all the unnecessary garbage.
So, like I’m doing while I write this, I’ll stop writing! I think I made it clear in the first paragraph. Watch the latest vlog below!
Great advice, Nate! I needed to hear that. Helps me to re-evaluate things I’m working on. I appreciate your videos, advice and encouragement 🙂
Thanks, Bucky! I know this is an area that I’m constantly checking myself on. Just when I think I have it simplified and perfect-o, I’ll reexamine it and discover it’s STILL sometimes not quite there (often times even after publishing).
Hey Nate,
Spot on! I have to constantly go back and look over my dialogue to make sure it 1) makes sense and 2) is even needed. I don’t always succeed, but that’s ok. I can always learn from the mistake and go at it again (and again and again and again).
Same here! It’s a constant battle (this along with typos). I think it’s just a matter of doing it over and over, and even then there will be slips. One thing I forgot to mention on the vlog is sometimes sleeping on an idea and reexamining it the next day helps a lot. Fresh eyes can do wonders…
Totally agree! I usually go back to an idea over and over again.. if it remains funny then I”ll draw it. If not, and I think I let it sit and poke and tweak at it indefinitely if I think it has some potential. Sometimes a toon finally sees the light of day after 5 years plus of germination..