Comments on: “It’s Hot” and tepid celebrity comic strips https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips Lollards in the high church of low culture Fri, 04 Apr 2014 22:45:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Alan https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips/comment-page-1#comment-229119 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:49:53 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/wedge/comics/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips/#comment-229119 how soon we forget: the-emo-adventures-of-charlie-busted

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By: Alan https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips/comment-page-1#comment-229097 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:13:09 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/wedge/comics/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips/#comment-229097 @rob: looks like a plant of some kind, but why bother drawing it at all if it’s placed like that?

One surreal effect that is used in the EE strip from time to time is colourised photo backgrounds. Not of the EE set or anything – i guess they are just the artists own texture shots to make the backgrounds look a bit ‘fuller’.

emma, quite! if a parent disapproves of a comic they may will veto it’s purchase, or not include its cover price in the pocket money. i recall being allowed a comic a week as well as pocket money.

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips/comment-page-1#comment-229096 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:12:50 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/wedge/comics/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips/#comment-229096 surely the most you need is arrows at key corners — EVEN A PARENT is not going to read boxes 1,2,3 and 4 in the order 1-3-2-4

(also it is good for kidZoRs to experiment see WHICH ORDER MAKES THEIR FAVOURITE SENSE: bah for risk society and the sorry cocooning of littleys)

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By: Emma https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips/comment-page-1#comment-229091 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:53:58 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/wedge/comics/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips/#comment-229091 Do parents fork out for these things? Kids get pocket money you know. My parents would never have bought me magazines like this as I should have been reading a book instead :(

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips/comment-page-1#comment-229086 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:16:18 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/wedge/comics/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips/#comment-229086 For maximum confusion avoidance they need to sub-number the speech bubbles too, i.e. 3a, 3b etc. Just in case.

Numbering panels in this way is a throwback to really old comics – Little Nemo In Slumberland, which played around with panel shape and layout a hell of a lot, used to do it 100 years ago. I guess that wasn’t down to a focus group though – probably a baffled editor. So I quite like the effect cos it reminds me of old-timey comics.

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By: Rob Brennan https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips/comment-page-1#comment-229085 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:15:57 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/wedge/comics/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips/#comment-229085 They should get David Rees to do the TMi cartoon.

Why is the back of Mo’s head exploding in the ‘enders panel?

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By: Alan https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips/comment-page-1#comment-228920 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:59:17 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/wedge/comics/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips/#comment-228920 I have only just noticed that all the frames in these comics are numbered. Have kids lost the ability to read comic panels sequentially? Perhaps they have – there is a subtle grammar to panel layout which the regular reader of comics has unconsciously internalised. However there is nothing tricky about the panel layouts in these strips. you go from panel to panel like words on a written page (or within a speech bubble for that).

I have a specific chip on shoulder to confess to: I suspect parental focus groups have been involved. This is because I have in my time been lucky to storyboard and sketch out a few comic-like layouts, and once one finished spread was a small part of the subject of a focus group. The layout of this page was sequenced clockwise from bottom left round the page, which was made OBVIOUS with many visual clues, specifically the main character receding into the distance while circling round.

This was totally baffling to the group of parents, and became a whipping point for several minutes, with the conclusion “they should number the panels”. The group of kids never mentioned it.

But who forks out for this stuff? The parents. If they don’t like it, they won’t buy it. Which doesn’t explain how clip-art Sam & Mark make it in here.

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By: Pete https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips/comment-page-1#comment-228676 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:29:10 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/wedge/comics/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips/#comment-228676 This is just reason 488 why Lil Chris is the best thing in pop EVER!!!

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips/comment-page-1#comment-228672 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:19:52 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/wedge/comics/2007/02/its-hot-and-tepid-celebrity-comic-strips/#comment-228672 *human culture reaches zenith*
*everyone stops trying cz like no need now*
*meerkats inherit earth*

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