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doesn't love the retro-cool sci-fi B pictures of the
50's??? Well, I do. Visitors from another world. Giant
man-eating insects. Crew-cut army generals and hot babe
scientists. All IN 3D!!! (comic
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| Improv
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| Scott
McCloud, author of the insightful Understanding Comics,
has combined two of my favorite mediums; comics and
improvisation. Every morning he sits himself down and
draws a panel or two for an on-line comic strip based
on titles suggested by his readers. The strip is updated
daily on his website - ScottMcCloud.com.
In the late spring of 2004 Mr. McCloud "randomly"
selected Mimi's Last Coffee - one of my many suggested
titles - as a candidate for a Morning Improv. Thanks
to some power voting (mostly from my mother and myself)
Mimi was transformed into a dark comic with an interactive
gimmick. |
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Mimi's Last Coffee on ScottMcCloud.com |
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| August
Comics |
| In
August of 2004 I attempted my own improv comic. I met
my overly ambitious goal of one panel per day. But since
the tale was improvised I had no idea how things would
turn out or if 31 screens would be enough to finish
the story. And of course it wasn't. They say the last
10% of anything is the hardest to finish. So I guess
I was satisfied with an A-. Please, enjoy the Phillian
Liberation and imagine your own ending… cause I'll
probably never make one. |
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my improv comic here - The Phillian Liberation! |
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For some
unknown reason, in the summer of 1988, I got it in my head
to draw a totally unique comic strip about a surly orange
cat and his stupid side-kick dog. But my dog was a Dalmatian!
Totally different from that yellow floppy guy Garfield hung
around with. When I needed a name for the puppy I turned my
eyes to the ceiling and chose the first word to enter my head.
Plant. Because there was a plant hanging in the kitchen. So
the puppy's name was Pintils. Or Pintels. Since it wasn't
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As for
the orange cat... well that name was easy. In his book "Garfield's
Nine Lives" the famed fatty explores his other eight
lifetimes. During caveman days he encountered a volcano and
instead of it emoting "Kaboom" or "Pow"
when it erupted its action word was "FOOM!" |
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And so
began the adventures of Fooms & Pintels. Using half a
piece of torn butcher paper, every day I'd draw one four panel
comic in the style of a news paper funny. Some of that stuff
still makes me laugh. At a young age I understood the set
up and punch line formula of a comic strip. Well, really,
I knew how to mimic stuff. I've been drawing comics ever since
and the early Fooms & Pintels strips are still among my
all time favorites. Honest. Funny. Cute... And not even close
to being like Garfield. Totally different... |
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