Comic Stripper 02

As in Comic Stripper 01, I often put composition of the elements over conveying the message - a strategy that (again) did not win me competitions, but all you admirers instead. Someone who knows me would think this was an unlikely topic for me to make a comic about, but that someone is sweet enough not to make too big a deal about it.

I wanna hold your chand!

To quote Juror #4 from the 1957 movie 12 Angry Men, "two things:" (yup, that's the quote)

• The focus was on symmetry in composition; I love comics where minor changes occur between panels to convey a story, especially when there are no speech bubbles. It requires a little extra focus on the viewer's part, kinda like the Slylock Fox 'Spot the 6 differences' puzzles, and is therefore more rewarding.*
• Though I prefer black and white comics, the red tablecloth adds the extra layer of meaning in the last panel - a cheap thrill for me and hopefully for you. Only a few artists can make a comic truly stunning in colour, so for now, I'll stick to monochrome.

It's when I took a test print of this strip that I felt the contrast between the lighter and darker shades of red should have been more, but everyone isn't born with that much foreskin. ("I said 'foresight'", "Oh, I thought you said 'foreskin'" etc)

*This does NOT mean I condone the 'talking heads' comics like Garfield where the panels are almost photocopies of each other, with only the text in the speech bubbles changed.