What if there was a book about otherkin?

[frameacloud]

Theri There comic for July 3, 2006. Thanks for sticking with me, folks. :)

[Edit 2017-04-03: Updated link.]

Comments

[kistaro]

I'm feeling the same July 2nd vibes you are, but that didn't stop ComicGenesis!

Glad to see you back in the loop with this. *grin* This one is great, as usual! I found the way you filled the speech bubbles to be especially amusing, mostly because I occasionally visualize the same thing- just as a mental exercise, wonder what a sound or concept would look like if it was to be reduced to a single dingbat. There are a lot of options for that...

I really like that "egad!" dragon in the lower-left corner, for some reason.

[frameacloud]

...I wish I knew why ComicGenesis keeps doing that. I asked about it in their forums and I checked my settings, and it looks like everything's just as right as it can be... but it seems like the site keeps auto-updating whenever it happens to feel like it. :/

I've always thought pictorial speech bubbles were neat and underused... they're visually efficient, since they tend to either communicate their message more rapidly than text, or they're a joke in-and-of themselves if they take some figuring-out on the part of the reader.

My roleplaying character in the interactive comic paperspace is a centaur who communicates exclusively in pictorial speech bubbles. I hadn't even planned for him to do that; he just turned out that way. Reminds me, that place needs more activity...

I later found out about irrimiri_comic, which also stars a nonverbal character who sometimes speaks in pictures.

The dragon in the lower-left corner had a more satisfying mouth-squiggle in the sketch. Something of its vitality was lost when inking, but it still works nearly as well. Cartooning is like that.