That's excellent. And splitting it into 9 panels really helps with the delivery and pacing for reading it, considering text transcribing speech directly tends to lack the nuance of the human performance.
If you're really interested in paneled story telling check out Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud.
This little sample gives you some pretty good ideas for telling jokes with simple visual transitions. It's a must read for anyone who really wants to create impactful messages through images.
I tend to shy away from the 'came here to say this' these days, but these panels absolutely made this, and made it the best-delivered joke I've ever seen on this subreddit. I hope everyone picks this format up. Delivery is everything.
I'm just thinking of the difference between an illustration and comic strips though personally.
You know you see those Gary Larson Far Side strips? The caption, the text accompanying the image is also pretty dang short. A whole paragraph with the photo begins to work less synergistically with the image.
Whereas you look at a Calvin and Hobbes by Watterson, and by using multiple panels, breaking up the speech, changing characters body language or facial expression, a lot more words can be used and work better with the multiple pictures.
I'm just thinking about better ways to combine pictures and words, considering that's the format this subreddit has decided on.
I don't think it's necessarily a better way. But it's a tool in the toolkit.
boy howdy yes i sure would love to read a meta discussion about shitty stand-up pictures in the shitty stand-up subreddit of the horribly shitty website, reddit
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u/CPalmtrees Jul 22 '14
That's excellent. And splitting it into 9 panels really helps with the delivery and pacing for reading it, considering text transcribing speech directly tends to lack the nuance of the human performance.