An index to Elmo & Fletcher

[Martin Milner]

People are more likely to read speech bubbles than read text that is not part of the picture, especially if the text blurb is too long.  The speech bubbles are in front of their eyes as they scan the photograph whereas the text is somewhere else, often in a small, unremarkable font.

Which must be why comic books are more popular than newspapers. 

Would you sign this thread for us again, Tim? Might be worth something one day.

[Timotheos]

Would you sign this thread for us again, Tim? Might be worth something one day.

In American parlance, "writer" applies to the writer of a comic strip equally as to the writer of prose without accompanying illustrations.

The thread seemed to be drifting in a direction that suggested that real writers avoided text bubbles.

I'm "kind of a writer" too (I've finished several novels, but have never managed to sell one...    just a few measly short stories...    ).

Actually, my Playmobil collection owes its existence to my failure as a writer! 

I turned to toys to recover from the cataclysm of the Great Lead Wheel (aka the cliques that dominate writing fiction and reading it) crushing me into the dirt.

I still write, but don't tell the Great Lead Wheel.

It's so vain and vicious that it would probably hire somebody to kill my dog if it saw me having too much fun.

-Tim




 

[Gustavo]

I'm "kind of a writer" too (I've finished several novels, but have never managed to sell one...    just a few measly short stories...    ).

If you have several novels, and managed to sell a few short stories, Tim, I tell you: you are a writer. I am a kind of a writer ... I have no complete novel, and nothing sold. (And very little stuff actually published.)


Writers may like well using bubbles!* ... It's not the way that I like better to do my photostories but, again, I'm almost a writer, I think. (I actually say so, at this point: I'm almost a writer.) Maybe into some years, from now ... I work really slow in this. & 'Not worried about it. At all.

And 'absolutely make no plans of writing for living. -- This is me, though. "Cada cabeça, sua sentença", says a proverb in Portuguese, which means generally that each person knows of himself.


Gus



*And, well, there may be those who do, there may be those who don't ... There may be those who won't ever make a photostory. There may be many who don't know what a klicky is. Same for actors; it seems the Indiana Jones guy happens to know Good for him!

[Timotheos]

And 'absolutely make no plans of writing for living. -- This is me, though. "Cada cabeça, sua sentença", says a proverb in Portuguese, which means generally that each person knows of himself.

My foray into commercial writing was very disillusioning.

It's very much a job.  "Writing what you want to write" is like having a job at McDonalds and telling the boss (and the customers) you'd prefer to serve a fish sandwich when the customer wants a hamburger because fish in your opinion tastes better.

We amateurs approach the "entertainment industry" with a lot of idealistic misconceptions.

"People will like what I write because it's me writing it!"

Whoops!

[Martin Milner]

I admire you guys for even trying to write commercially. I think a lot of potential writers get put off by the industry, and it's a shame.

I think many writers, once published, get trapped into a particular style that they may tire of, and only a few elite like Bill Bryson or Stephen King manage to get published in different genres.

[Rasputin]

Tim i took a crack at the bubbles and just this one image took me like 1 1/2 hours to figure this much out . I still do not like the font, i want a more silly comic book image . I am trying Photoshop CS 8.0

[Gustavo]

My photostory has no bubbles. I like to make text. But, well, ... I'm a kind of a writer.

Hey Mate I'm a published writer who has even done book signings.

I use speech bubbles because I want this silliness to be like a comic book!

-Tim

EDIT:
Speech bubbles are useful for guiding the readers eyes across the picture in the direction you want; they also provide a visual cue to the writer about how wordy he is getting. 

People are more likely to read speech bubbles than read text that is not part of the picture, especially if the text blurb is too long.  The speech bubbles are in front of their eyes as they scan the photograph whereas the text is somewhere else, often in a small, unremarkable font.

There you go, Tim: I got what makes me not use the bubbles.

One of my most important characters is the narrator!

Gus

[Gustavo]

ON ELMO & FLETCHER

So, next step is to make some stories I had in mind. Now the introduction is finished. I already shot one next part, but maybe I'll shoot one pirates' story before making the next beginning of Elmo & Fletcher.

You may have noticed that there's a lot of things that weren't explained in the last part of the plot. Well ... It's because there's more to come.

Now, I'm tempted to shoot and write pirates' stories because it's operationally easier, however, I'll have a bit of hard work in making the scenario according to what I've conceived for the next pirates' part ... Although ...

Well, lets see if next weekend will give me the time & disposition I need to either of'em.

Lots of stories, lots of work one way or another ...

 

Gus

[Gustavo]

It's now that Elmo & Fletcher's stories actually begin

I'm beginning to publish something, but it'll come alternately with the pirates' chronicles, which has more plot developed ...

There's a few things, though, in E&F that I wish to put there ...
This first visit at Feor's will be in three parts, a, b & c. It's odd, but because of text arrangement, E&F is a lot more work than the pirates, and it's impossible to publish many things at once. It demands some work. It's a nice result, though, even with the limited equipment I still have.

I hope everyone's enjoying it!
Let me know, whatever ...

Yours,

Gus