At this point, I think I’m going to have to temporarily shelve the other sandwich comics I have in the pipes.  You don’t know it when you go into it, but making sandwiches the focal point of a comic strip is visually tough.  Since sandwiches are a small thing to focus on you have to draw the comic differently.

One of the things that irks me in both reading and drawing comics is when the characters just stand there.  It seems lazy to me to reuse artwork and just slap new dialogue in the word bubbles and call it a new strip.  Comic strips, I think, are just as much about the art as the humor.  I strive to move my comics around as much as possible and make each look at least a little different than the others before it, which I imagine would be harder if I did this every day.  It is a challenge with a fairly static, talky comic like my own that doesn’t rely on slapstick to change things up.  Fortunately, it’s a challenge I attempt to meet, which seems to be helping my visual brain to develop, and I find myself taking into account stuff like composition and negative space.  All I need now is to draw everything with the golden ration in mind.  Once I reach that point I’ll have cemented my position as the snobbiest, most uptight cartoonist alive.  Stay tuned!

Tags: conflict, paranoia, sandwich

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