This is my entry for a comic strip competition; admittedly I put form over function, and concentrated more on composition and less on communication, but that's what makes you so special, you're not at all judgmental.
Comic Technical Support
- If you needed a loupe to view it, blame the competition organisers, who set a stingy 200 by 600 pixels because they have an expensive internet plan or low hard disk space or whatever
- If you didn't understand it, relax, neither did anyone else unless I explained it to them. I'm still optirealistic though ('realioptimistic' just sounds like 'really optimistic', which I'm not)
This of course doesn't mean I didn't think a lot before making the strip. It's redeeming quality is the focus on the restrictions on dimensions of the strip and the possibilities of symmetry in composition:
- I divided the 600 by 200 pixels into three squares of 200 pixels each, but instead of making three separate panels, I made one panel which naturally divided into three equal parts by virtue of the joke itself
- The elements in the middle portion were forced into symmetry - the speech bubble was centered, the students distributed symmetrically; even the thought bubble is a mirror image of the teacher's shape
In retrospect, I notice I forgot to put words like "Shoo!" and "Scram!" above the people in the right panel; blame it on the pressure of a deadline.
Maybe form is a function?
