I guess it HAS been a while, hasn’t it?
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Troy’s Back!
You figured it out, didn’t you? Clever.
If you’re offended by censorship, this is your version.
If you’re offended by this cartoon, look at the other one.
What more is there to be said? Happy Thanksgiving to the folks in the U.S.!
Happy Thursday to everyone else! Eat a bunch.
Troy must love you folks more than I do. He found time for a new cartoon.
On the other hand, I met Lar DeSouza, who draws ‘Least I Could Do’ and is a master caricaturist.
Should we do another critique week?
Not to make Troy think we’re attacking him.
I was just telling a writer friend of mine (who hasn’t been a writer long) that he shouldn’t take any critique of his first TV script personally. The critique has nothing to do with HIM, after all. It’s about the script, and what’s ready to be put into the hands of producers.
So- there’s the classic classroom admonition about critiques.
Having said that… The perspective bugs me. These days, It’s pretty easy to set up a drawing in the computer where the perspective is dead-on. I don’t know how long ago Troy designed this one or whether he had a computer then, so I don’t know if that’s a valid concern. Either way, I’d like to see better perspective particularly on the lettering on the sign.
Also (and this is a conversation that I just had with a cartoonist Troy just met in Georgia) the details of all the elements of the cartoon have to be considered. It’s ‘colored’ in black and white, just like the movie. So “excellent” on the color scheme. But if Norman Bates is trying to “lure a more exclusive clientele”, he’d add “Master” to the sign in a fancier font (also making it easier to see what’s different from the source material)
There’s my critique. Good color choices, but set up the sign lettering in the computer (I recommend ‘Adobe Illustrator’ in this case) and use the ‘perspective’ tool to drag it into a slick looking perspective. And pick a ‘fancy’ font for “Master” that’ll both draw attention and make Norman look like he was trying too hard. Once all that stuff is done in the computer, you print it out to size, drop it on the light table, put a clean sheet of nice paper on top and ink the livin’ heck out of that fine, fine cartoon.
Buying candy for the holidays is a strategic hot mess.
For instance, I used to do as John here does. I’d buy what I liked and gave out as few as I felt I could give, short of making myself feel miserly.
-Meaning if you were over sixteen and you didn’t have a costume and you came along at the end of the evening when the happy families were home already- your chances were pretty dang slim that you’d get one of my ‘100 Grand’ bars.
Nowadays, I’ve had disappointing talks with doctors and with other people my age and I buy candy that I couldn’t care less about and don’t enjoy. Or, so far this year, I let my wife purchase the candy because she always gives me dirty looks as though she knows what that bag weighs and will cave in my skull if she detects an ounce of candy has been taken from the bag and added to my gut.
I like to look at the cultural phenomena that is Superman.
He started out as a sort of reverse Flash Gordon character, dressed in a circus strongman outfit. That was high concept back in the 30s.
And we’ve spent a lot of the intervening time trying to keep him relevant by writing and re-writing the minutiae of him…
and trying to think up a good reason that he was still wearing a circus strongman outfit from the 30’s.
Big… Red… Boots.
Kinda weird, but we’re used to seeing them, so… he wears them.
I actually do this when I walk my dog. Troy is channeling me, and I’m not quite dead yet.
