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TRANSCRIPT:
Collin: Comics are tough.
Well, they're kind of
easy, but they're tough.
See, with a sitcom or
something, you're allowed to time the humor out in real time, using
pauses and beats to achieve maximum comedic effectiveness, instead of
the tools you have to work with in comics, using spaces between
panels and vision-directing action lines in the hopes that the reader
of the comic will read it in any semblance of the comedic timing you
have in your head.
On the other hand, with a
comic, you only need one joke per strip, and even then only at the
very end. Any sitcom set up like this wouldn't last very long.
Not as a sitcom, at least.
Maybe as a cooking show,
if all the humor is food-based.
Another thing about comics
is that you don't know if any of the humor is even getting through at
all. With a stage comedy
(which I know all about)
(or at least used to until
my character derailment)
you can tell when the
humor is reaching your audience.
For example, this week's
entire strip was one elaborate pun, but I have no idea if it got
through to any of you.
Still to come: more about
the difference between humor on the page and humor in real life.
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