0095b — A Deep Peek Behind the Scenes
Added 2024-11-08 20:00:07 +0000 UTCThis is a pretty good peek behind the scenes, in my humble estimation — First you see (on slide 2, sorry) as the idea changes radically from the initial Big Game Hunter direction, and then you can see the way words shift and morph between the framed-out version here and the final version.
Comments
He's damn right about the italics
Jenn
2024-11-12 14:08:41 +0000 UTCOur language is indeed a living thing and must be operated more like a dance and less like a 1969 IBM Mag Card Selectric. I enjoy putting a space before and after an em-dash, like this — do you see? — because I feel it better communicates the feeling of the beat, fermata, or pause the dash is meant to create.
Chris Onstad
2024-11-12 04:33:15 +0000 UTCI admit that I love to use parentheses, I use them all the time. I refuse to look up the rules for using parentheses because after that, I would know that I'm using them incorrectly and it would take away all the love I have for them.
C C
2024-11-11 22:28:09 +0000 UTCSounds like you’re leaning that way
Anthony Thompson
2024-11-09 18:49:59 +0000 UTCIt’s best not to “look down,” …just let it flow. If I tried to examine how these little stories happen, I probably would never be able to do them again.
Chris Onstad
2024-11-09 03:23:44 +0000 UTCYou and me both, pal. All I know is that he’s five, and this better not take long.
Chris Onstad
2024-11-09 03:20:31 +0000 UTCI can't even imagine where things begin and end when writing in a character's voice who is themself writing fiction. It's honestly really cool to see these notes and alternative takes from the process, I appreciate the look behind the curtain. Thanks, man.
Shepton
2024-11-09 02:59:34 +0000 UTCSome kids are. Some kids maintain the ability to be weird and silly into adulthood even without drugs. Some other kids' parents drowned them in a bathtub full of meh and hmf and "that's nice, dear."
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-11-09 01:01:24 +0000 UTCIt's so impressive to me that all of the comics of Philippe writing stories are so consistent and of a whole and yet I can't explain at all how they work.
Chris Dubie
2024-11-09 00:42:35 +0000 UTCAren’t kids good at making weird shit up on the fly? Because they haven’t yet been crushed with feedback from a mediocre populace?
Chris Onstad
2024-11-09 00:33:21 +0000 UTCIt’s so hard to know what is an experimental comic strip and what isn’t
Chris Onstad
2024-11-09 00:32:22 +0000 UTCMeet his enemy, StrikeThrough Man
Chris Onstad
2024-11-09 00:31:32 +0000 UTCI didn’t even know I felt this way about italics but now I might be slightly against them
Chris Onstad
2024-11-09 00:31:07 +0000 UTCAlso, is it weird that I’m not really jarred by Philippe writing stories about santería? Kid has unexpected depths.
Ben Sunshine-Hill
2024-11-08 22:48:22 +0000 UTCGod damnit Onstad, what hope is there for any of us if you won’t speak truth to power about italics
Ben Sunshine-Hill
2024-11-08 22:45:51 +0000 UTCHe was... Italics Man!
Stavro
2024-11-08 22:34:31 +0000 UTC"not good" stated the note after a piece of prose that was actually quite excellent. But then things got even better, and also weird.
Shepton
2024-11-08 21:08:54 +0000 UTCI bless the permafrost in Africa
blair
2024-11-08 21:04:19 +0000 UTCDoes Philippe have an accidental grasp of absurdism and surrealism? Because his kid-brain ideas are so very dada and maybe it's his French blood coming out.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-11-08 20:26:19 +0000 UTC
