Letter From Home (again)

[H.W.Fluks@telecom.tno.nl]

Don wrote:

[about D.U.C.K. on "Letter From Home"]
> It's always in the splash-panel, first panel of the story... 
> meaning not on the prologue page. Keep looking...

Found it easily. And I also found it on the splash panel of the second part. 8-)

H> Don has the habit of drawing his text balloons over several panels.
H> Probably to get the effect like in the movies, where you still hear a
H> previous scene while already looking at the next scene, or 
H> vice versa. But to me, it simply looks *ugly*. A page would look *so* much 
H> better with all the panel borders being intact.

> I'm not sure why panel borders should be "intact" -- often I 
> and all other
> cartoonists omit the borders on a panel or two on a page 
> altogether...

Omitting borders is okay, esthetically. But crossing the borders with balloons looks ugly to me.

> I don't believe that artsy-fartsy page
> lay-outs serve any purpose other than to make a story use up more pages than
> needed... whee -- extra page fees for nothing! -- my only mission is to cram
> as much of everything onto each page and into each story as I can.

Too bad that that is your mission. I agree that I get a lot of contents on a page, but I'd rather have more pages with the same content, when the pages *look* better. And to me they look better when they are less "crammed".

BTW, with your popularity, getting "extra page fees for nothing" would not be a problem at all.

Anyway, I know I can't change your style of making comics. So I have to live with what I get. 8-)

--Harry.

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