I write jokes. A lot of them. My life’s mission is to find the funny in situations and show other people what I found, sometimes they don’t want to HEAR it…so I’m drawing it.
This happened to me last year or so around this time give or take a month when I was sick with Mono. I went to the doctors office and I’ve always found them to be funny and ironic but when I went this time there wasn’t anything too funny…until this old couple walked in and the rest is on paper.
You might have a hard time reading this joke since in reality it’s about 2′ long and I don’t understand flickr all that well yet so there could be a way I can show this full scale but It always resizes my images to 800×160. So if you’re having a hard time, go here and click DOWNLOAD LARGE SIZE from the All Sizes tab on the top:
I’m having a hard time and I need to see it bigger.
Anyways. I’ve read some of Scott McClouds books on making and understand comings and I’ve also read a good book on structure of jokes but you can’t learn telling jokes from a book but, it was ok to start with. I practice the rest everyday sharpening my wit. When I read comics I don’t necessarily like how each scene is drawn in a box and what not. I enjoy it on some but it I can’t make it work for what I have in mind. What if your joke is a long run on sentence with endless information and ideas flying in from all sorts of directions? I don’t know about you, but this is what I do, I just keep drawing until I stop talking…and let me tell you that takes a lot of paper.
TAKE THAT MOTHER EARTH!
(I’m actually really environmentally friendly. For example, I’ll decompose when I die. Gotta give something back right?)
*Side Note*
If anyone knows how I can fix this flickr size problem let me know because it won’t let me download the full I uploaded for everyone to see.
*End Transmission*
Chad C.
2 Comments
I have seen that some users have uploaded full scale images that you can download but I think you need a Pro account for that. I’ll just upload it to my website later today.
I’m working on a book idea right now that revolves around this same approach, it should be fun.
cool to see you explore narrative stuff some more, it suites you perfectly. also equally cool is that you’ve been reading some McCloud, one of my heroes for sure.
i think flickr has a max image width and length limit. you could always upload the image to your website proper and link from there hey?