Comic Stripper

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.

Tinkle meets Sin City (I wish): Click for larger picture

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?