Wednesday 11 June 2008

Joe 20: The end is...not nigh

Here again, strips 17 to 20 constitute an actual story if they are read one after the other; but what one needs to do with comic strips is to enable the reader to read each strip and understand it even though they might not have read the previous one (which is often the case if the strip is published in a newspaper for instance). To do that, the artist has to resume the previous strip in the first frame of the new strip, or find a way to "re-start" a story from elements of the previous one.


Joe 19: The escape!

That's what we call "jumping from the frying pan into the fire"!

Joe 18: Dying with a full belly


Joe 17: Fly trap


Joe 16: It's hard to make friends!

Some friendships are not made to last.

Joe 15: Unfaithful

Even baby flies can resemble...their parents!?