Intro
One of my favourite things to do with a comic is to take a basic idea and come up with a list of related things that go with it. Sometimes it's obvious that I'm doing that, because the drawing is in the form of an actual list.
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| One of my favourite list comics |
Let's Be More Subtle
It doesn't have to be written. In my recent Area 5.1 cartoon I decided to build an image around my list instead. It less obvious and rewards the reader when they spend time searching through your drawing.
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| A less obvious list |
Here, the list is based around stereotypical objects collected during a night out. I think I also had in mind to include a street sign, but I started to run out of space. The traffic cone definitely had to be there.
I hadn't intended putting the cow in the shopping trolley/cart, but I didn't have room to put them next to each other. I think the result is funnier for it.
Finally, I added the Jan 1st calendar on the wall to make it relevant to the new year. So happy new year folks.
I hadn't really thought of this as a list, I spotted the policeman's helmet, cone and trolley. Is the cow there because aliens abduct cows? If that's right then that works for me, that's the way I took it and she seemed to fit well with the other things.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the cow is mostly because it's following on from the christmas cartoons, and partly because it must have been a wild party if you came back with a cow.
ReplyDeleteThe list is one of "my things" and it try and use it where ever I can. If you remember back to the control panel in http://area5-1.thecomicseries.com/comics/105/ (The Crash Course) I needed some other controls to go alongside Auto-Pilot.
I came up with: Probe release, Cattle Beam and (my favourite), Crop Circler.
Again this was a more obvious list because it was just text over a load of toggle switches.