This is a terrific essay on what it takes to create an entertaining and successful comic strip. It is every bit like researching for animation, and sculpture. And, creative license is significant because we speak with our own voices through our art. You have a lot to express, and in a really fun way, so draw on!
I'm not sure how successful it is. Certainly not in a financial sense. I picked the absolute worst time in history to go into comics. But it's successful in an emotional and social sense; people do read it, and I enjoy drawing it.
Charles Schulz was a wee bit dismayed that people wrote to him to give him solutions for Peppermint Patty’s constant falling asleep in class. But he countered that by saying that it’s funnier if she falls asleep. For if she never fell asleep in class, how would that ever be funny? The dogs are very funny just the way you wrote them, Ms. Beiman! At least feedback occurred more slowly in the 1980s for Sparky Schulz!
I sometimes wonder how well Sparky Schulz would have done in today's instant feedback world. Introducing Franklin, having Lucy speaking up for women's rights, might have not met with approval. His own syndicate tried to dissuade him from introducing Franklin. Schulz replied, "How about if I quit?" Franklin was in the strip, and I don't believe any papers dropped PEANUTS as a result. Times are indeed different now, at least in the comics.
This is a terrific essay on what it takes to create an entertaining and successful comic strip. It is every bit like researching for animation, and sculpture. And, creative license is significant because we speak with our own voices through our art. You have a lot to express, and in a really fun way, so draw on!
I'm not sure how successful it is. Certainly not in a financial sense. I picked the absolute worst time in history to go into comics. But it's successful in an emotional and social sense; people do read it, and I enjoy drawing it.
Charles Schulz was a wee bit dismayed that people wrote to him to give him solutions for Peppermint Patty’s constant falling asleep in class. But he countered that by saying that it’s funnier if she falls asleep. For if she never fell asleep in class, how would that ever be funny? The dogs are very funny just the way you wrote them, Ms. Beiman! At least feedback occurred more slowly in the 1980s for Sparky Schulz!
I sometimes wonder how well Sparky Schulz would have done in today's instant feedback world. Introducing Franklin, having Lucy speaking up for women's rights, might have not met with approval. His own syndicate tried to dissuade him from introducing Franklin. Schulz replied, "How about if I quit?" Franklin was in the strip, and I don't believe any papers dropped PEANUTS as a result. Times are indeed different now, at least in the comics.