“Cartoon” search and Whispered Apologies
2 years, 4 months ago
I don’t want to sound too geeky, but this is a post on the theme of graphic narratives, as opposed to “cartoons”. Naming anything a cartoon or comic really tends to beg the question of affective intent of the content.
I recently discovered “Oh no Robot”; a search engine that searches through the drawn text in graphic narratives. This in itself is fantastically amusing, often surprising, and useful.
After a few indescriminate searches, I managed to stumble apon Whispered Apologies. Whispered Apologies…
…is a collaborative comic strip! You design a comic, pictures but no words, and send it in. Then Ryan and Joey and friends will add dialogue and narration to make your comic illustrative of wacky adventures or even quiet moments of reflection and self-awareness. The process is explained here. The result is a new comic, full of excitement and love!
A good number of the narratives are zany and amusing, and there are a few that are deeply moving - I suggest you check it out.
As an aside; disconnectedness of drawing from writing produced the very weird stories of cult classic childrens’ program The Magic Roundabout. Animation was produced in France, and dubbing into English was done without the original script! 