Whoops.
Gee, only two posts, and I’m already late. Way to go, me.
I blame foolishly rejoining World of Warcraft (I’m on Shadow Council, my characters are “jhonka” and “Phillthy’) despite my better judgment, as I mentioned in the CottonFluff LiveJournal.
Anyhow, that won’t happen again, especially as WoW isn’t as much fun as my friends make it out to be. But then again, they’re all rampaging around together, at levels 40+ while I’m whacking bears with a Worn Mace, by myself at less than level 10.
With friends like mine, who needs enemies? Better yet, who needs to pay a monthly fee to play a game by myself that I’ve already bought…
::deep, cleansing breath, release::
Moving on, at least for now. I will more than likely write up something on my WoW experience as time progresses.
I found this week’s comic at The Blambot Nexus, the official forum for that Mecca of digital comic lettering, Blambot.com. All the dialogue text in the Sapo Entertainment webcomics up until now uses the “DigitalStrip” font found at that site, without it, CottonFluff Hollow and MegMan wouldn’t look nearly as nice as they are now.
Thank you, Nate Piekos, for making (and giving away!) far, far more fonts than any one person should ever need. In addition to making lots of fonts, Nate also does a comic, The Realm of Atland, among other things.
A lot of non-comickers and wannabes frequent the forum, which is very interesting to me, the difference in the levels of experience and know-how makes for some good conversation, and a good amount of “Hey, I just started doing this here comic”- type posting, which is fine. You may as well preach to the choir for awhile, until your voice is loud enough to hear down the block.
Home Ec., by Jon Kristjan Kristinsson, is one of these. There are currently less than 20 comics, and they are “gag-a-day” strips, but they have no text. The humor is all visual.
And, it is incredibly charming.
The simplicity of the artwork (it’s all line drawings, with no real shadows, some light crosshatching and fields of black and gray) combined with the incongruity of the characters- who incidentally, are all objects of various types, light bulbs are pretty prevalent, makes what is happening immediately recognizable, and text, possibly even color would probably ruin it.
Home Ec. doesn’t rely on witty banter or sarcasm (not that there’s anything wrong with either of those, mind you). Instead, like many non-English speaking comics that might be reproduced in neighboring countries that don’t share a common language (and for those of you who haven’t clicked the link yet, the site is a “.dk,” so that could explain that), it just works off of the inherent silliness evoked by the nature of the characters doing more or less normal things.
I’ll admit that one or two of them made me look twice to figure out just what was going on, but nothing’s completely universal. And after understanding what was going on in the strip, I even felt a little better for having “decoded” it.
So, I’ll be waiting for Sunday’s comic (Jon even posted in his blog that it’s ready ahead of time), and maybe you’ll do the same.
See you next week, unless I’m on a raid.
