Notes: I
really like the way the borderless panel #1 turned out. I sometimes think
I use this effect too often (particularly when I'm doing comic strips),
but it really is a good way to affect the speed at which the reader goes
over the page. For some reason, a completely open image causes the eye
to slow down ... at least it does for me. I can't just bounce from one
box to the next ... I have to look to be sure what information I'm supposed
to take, to find the boundaries of this frameless image. In this case,
it's supposed to reinforce the notion that Club Mutante is huge—the reader
is supposed to feel that the reason there are no panels is because there's
too much there to be confined in such a small space.
Now, not to over
think this (though I think I may have failed in that endeavor all ready),
but the underlying message of this page owes a lot to my station in life
at the time I wrote Cautious Fuzz. "Know your value, and be careful
of people who want to take advantage of you" is something I wanted to pass
along to ALL my friends (most of us fresh out of college and starting to
make our ways in the world). I suppose another way to say it is "ALWAYS
look a gift horse in the mouth."
To tell the truth,
I have NO idea what I was trying to accomplish with the shading in panel
#2 ... but whatever it was, I failed utterly. That mass of intermittent
scritching does the WORST thing a background can do: it becomes the FOCUS
of the image. On the other hand, I think the shading in the subsequent
panels is terrific. In #3 it really does serve as a background, floating
Droxine and Enic to the foreground. And in panel #4 those few little scratches
give a nice balance to a very strange camera angle.
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