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Subject: Re: Reading, A Lost Art

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Date Posted: 08:27:16 06/12/01 Tue
In reply to: JIM 's message, "Re: Reading, A Lost Art" on 21:50:47 06/11/01 Mon

The fingers of JIM did wipe:
>
>Another thing cartoonists can do which adds to the
>memorability factor is site gags. Good lord, I don't
>know how many really funny jokes I haven't been able
>to do because the humour doesn't survive the
>transition from image to picture. In a comic strip or
>movie, something like that can be tucked down in a
>corner or in the background and doesn't distract from
>the main thrust. Text is pretty linear, so anything
>you spend time describing automatically comes up front
>and center.
>
>On the other hand, some things we do in text would be
>impossible or very difficult in a more visual,
>tackable format. Eg Reaper's mode of communication,
>Grayhound's chatroom scenes, or the little Chimera
>subterfuge revealed in this week's BGBM.
>
>What I mean is, one way we can try to overcome the
>limitations of text on the web is by using it to our
>advantage.

One of the things that I really enjoyed doing was Bob's interview. The biggest problem I had was how to present Krullux's droning presentation while Bob and his boss made comments about it. So I presented Krullux's part as a right aligned table and had the other two stay in text. I don't know how many folks got what I was doing or took the time to read it, but I liked the presentation.

>>A hundred years from now? Blue jeans, cars, TV,
>nation
>>states (slightly modified from the current), war,
>>famine, hunger, limited space programs, rising
>>population, and a bunch of re-creationists doing
>Civil
>>War battles.
>
>Well, s/TV/WebTV/ and s/Civil/Vietnam/ probably, but
>that's just details.
>

Nah, I'm still betting Civil war. Vietnam was fought in a whole 'nuther country. Kinda hard to dig up punji sticks and M-16 casings in your backyard. (well, unless you live in Humbolt County or Waco)

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Re: Reading, A Lost Art	JIM	11:34:31 06/12/01 Tue