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Getting Dipped
Friday, February 9th, 2007 by Admiral_CoeymanIs comic strip violence getting to be too much? Poor comic characters are being bounced all over animated furniture and their lunches stolen by much larger ink blots. It cannot be cheap to have an insurance plan that can get you bandaged between frames in a strip. Who is paying for the medical insurance, anyway?
Imagine spending years in a strip without ever getting to eat a meal. Hardly a frame gets drawn in which you are at peace. Nobody will draw you alone for a moment’s rest. And to top it off, your loyal audience insists on laughing at you. Readers only like you when you are bandaged, bruised and the ink is leaking out of your veins.
What kind of a world do we live in? There are toons out there who go through their entire lives with somebody else placing word balloons in their mouths. Once you are assigned one of these flippant remarks, said to the biggest guy in the strip, you know that you will have to pay for it with your last drop of ink. Your pixels are going to get knocked right off the screen. And, there is nothing that you can do about it.
So, what is a toon to do about this? You cannot exactly not show up when you are drawn. What is the point of a protest when nobody knows that you are protesting, much less what you are protesting against? Any picket signs that you take into the strip will only be removed in post production, when the panels are inked. A toon who crosses an artist could end up in a horror comic the next time he is drawn.
Well, I guess that having a place in the spotlight where you are the target of every gag is better than being an unknown spot at the bottom of a bottle of ink. What would the hero of the strip do without the helpless flunky getting beaten up for his lunch money every other panel? Be proud of the bandages drawn all over your inked body. You are doing something of value for the world. At least you are not getting dipped.
