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Feb25
on 02/25/2016
at 12:01 am
Chapter: You Know What They Say About Chaos
Location: Cypress City, the apartment
When you create for a living… you need to find ways to stay sharp and also remain creative. Believe it or not, actually going out for a pint would keep the creative fires burning. Moving away from your work every now and again keeps you fresh.
Yay! A writer comic! Ryan certainly looks different with glasses! (Though I think they should be a little further from his eyes in the first frame. Unless they’re wrap around glasses.)
Love the coffee cup! But what’s that ‘o’ doing there after the ‘f’? You MEANT CSUF, right? 😉
You are right about the glasses in panel 1. Yah… I drew them weird.
On the cup is CSUFO… California State University… Fort Ordway.
Which is what most people wanted the current CSUMB (Monterey Bay) to be named. Fort Ord is the actual name of the defunct military base where CSUMB is now. Ordway was a drugstore pharmacy in downtown Monterey, which sadly, has just been bought up by Rite-Aid. Sigh.
CSU Ford Ord? Cool. But CSU Fullerton was first! *Nyah* *Nyah* *Na-NYAH* *Nyah!* 😀
Haiku break? Awesome idea! I should take those…. except I suck at Haiku. And I share Ryan’s loathing of letters-for-words. If you’re going to assassinate the english language, just use a knife. Put it out of its’ misery! As someone who writes a lot for seemingly no gain (one book published, fifty written), I know those long typing sprees burn your brain to cinders and many people don’t understand that. Thank you for displaying what I call Writer’s Doldrums!
Trev… I did my teenage years in the 80’s and was subjected to Prince … or whatever he was formerly or currently known as. His habit of using letters instead of words drove me nuts. But throwing things at a radio or album cover didn’t do much to rectify the situation. I love that Weird Al makes fun of him publicly in his song parody “Word Crimes” …
One of my favorite Weird Al songs ever! I was born in ’81 so I lucked out in my teen years and got the remarkably eloquent mope-fest crowds. Now I’m knuckle-bitingly annoyed at texts, raps, and people who speak in ‘l33t’. But apparently I’m the annoying one for using things like punctuation and the right version of ‘they’re/there’! I’m not a grammar cop but can we at least use the right words? Or, you know…… words!? Come on world!
Hah! Recognized the Haiku format before I read the final panel. A friend of mine in New Orleans and I, one time via e-mail, spent an entire day conversing in Haiku format. I later counted about 183 consecutive Haiku formatted messages over the space of 5 or 6 hours, some of them in rapid fire mode.
That’s crazy, Rich… I love it. Now try it in French! hahahahaha. Anyhow, I admire the tenacity!
Hah, hah! Like the concept, use it fairly often as cartoon-break; Getting a figure on paper gets twenty minutes; getting a story concept on paper gets an hour.
Love the visual flow, your frame designs carry the action and setting so well that you can let your dialogue get creative. Nice!
Thank you. I like the flow on this one, too. I was also having fun with a new “text brush” that I found for Photoshop. I love the look of floating nonsense-text.