…is hard to find!

As a cartoonist, it’s funny how you can sometimes be so caught up in the drawing or writing of a strip that you end up failing to see an obvious flaw. It’s not until you have had a chance to put the strip away and walk away from it for a bit that you are then able to see a very obvious flaw. While you’re working on the strip, the decisions you make seem to be extremely obvious and logical but after that time away from the strip, you can look at it with fresh eyes and say “what was I thinking???”.

What am I talking about? I’m talking about the first panel. It has suddenly occurred to me that the word balloons could flow a little bit better. As it stands right now, the “I simply must know” dialog seems to be oddly placed or, depending on how you read the strip, seems equally out of place.

I should have had some of the dialog from the woman on the right be in the same area of the table - that way you get a much better flow of left-to-right dialog flow but I didn’t want to cover up too much of the table so I opted, instead, to put all the dialog above rich lady number two.

Ah well… the things you miss at 1:30 in the morning…

:-/

-Chris

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Tags: dialog, drawing, word balloons, word flow, Writing

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