#baby comic

[dailyrandomwriter]

Day 693

So journaling isn’t the only thing that hit a year anniversary today. Chimera Academy is also a year old today.

Writing for the comic has been fun, and surprisingly a learning experience. I’m not sure what I expected when I agreed to do a comic, but I certainly didn’t fully consider the learning curve writing for a comic would entail. 

Now, I already knew that writing for a comic is very different than writing for prose, and I knew this because I had already turned prose writing into scripts for @wereah in the past. However, I had never written anything with the full intention that it would be a comic.

This means from the outset (to make both our lives easier) I ideally had to write the comic keeping in mind that:

Comics are a visual medium, and you should take advantage of that.

Comics are a *static* visual medium which has limitations you should take into consideration.

It’s very hard to emphasize how much flexibility writing in prose has compared to other storytelling mediums. In a traditional prose story, you can read a character’s thoughts, feelings, inner monologue and travel with them as the character lives from one scene to the next. There is a reason why movie and TV adaptations are so difficult, and why being ‘faithful’ to the source isn’t always the answer.

While writing Chimera, I had to be aware that I couldn’t switch locations often within a chapter. If I do a scene change, I need to write in a way that it will not be confusing for the reader later. Frankly in the first several chapters of Chimera, it was just easier to not do it at all. In fact, I still have a chapter that will have at least two scene changes, and we’ll see if both those changes stay or if I’ll say, “fuck it” and get rid of one of them.

That being said, comics (and by extension visual mediums) have advantages that writing prose does not, and keeping that in mind has been difficult. Club Faire, the upcoming comic, is when my scripts start to have a bit more art direction, instead of poor Were-Ah doing all the heavy lifting, but it isn’t until the chapter after Club Faire that I’ve really been leaning into the fact this is a visual medium in my scripts.

I’m very proud of the chapter called Intermission, which comes after Club Faire, because it’s when I really start giving the children personality and interaction that doesn’t fully require dialogue. Now it’s the question of if I can upkeep that for the chapters after that one.

But that is a future writing problem.

[truestoryvonne]

Figure I should update the family portrait once the new baby arrived. Rocket will always be number one for parental attention.

[iruiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

In between the first and second relettering project I created what was I titled "baby comic" an edit on those funny transformers go go mangas that are really fun and you should read

[allegroart]

Today is my daughter's first birthday! I can't believe she's a year old already. Happy Birthday, sweetheart!

[only-cat-memes]

[shrubsparrow]

It's in the eye of the beholder

[ur-daily-inspiration]

source

[pseudonymjones]

[stormy-skyzzzzzz-art]

ppl rly liked the damian + batcow doodle so I coloured it in!!!

[sticksandsharks]

Well, you heard it here first, folks.

Little side comic for my SBCF24 debut, Sacred Bodies.

ba'it babies? important.

[caats]

[truestoryvonne]

I guess this is one way to introduce allergens to babies.

[noodles-and-tea]

Continuation of this

[beartitled]

The squishy baby dorito is too squishy and too baby to kill

[only-cat-memes]

[bruciemilf]

Need a the Waynes Lived AU where Martha’s a vampire. She snuck in a Wayne Gala for a potential late night snack, but Thomas thought she was a socialite.

“So, what do you do?”

“I drain people of their life sources.”

“Oh, you’re a CEO too?”

She can’t drink Thomas’ blood because he smokes too much, the baggy eyes indicate long nights spent on his feet during surgery, which means it’ll taste bitter, and she saw him drown 10 whiskey shots in one go.

It’s a taste thing, nothing against him.

He is, how ever, very handsome, and she decided she’ll be his house cat for the time being. Fast forward two years later and they have a vampire cherub of a baby named Bruce.

Babies usually don’t come out with fangs and tiny bat wings, so, yeah. His wife’s a vampire. Cool.

“How come I’ve never seen your wife outside during the daytime, Tom??”

“How come I’ve never seen you mind your own fucking business?”