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Garoo


18 jun. 2005

Oh, right, I do know why I’m not at ease with written serials: continuity.

When you’re doing a comic or TV series, the common thread is visual: the drawing style, the actors, the photography — the credits, even. You can do a Cops parody and it’s still an X-Files episode. You can do one full hour of people just staring at each other, and it’s still a Carnivàle episode. You can do any kind of filler — story-less gags, full-page illustrations, all kind of sketches, meta stuff… — and it’s still your webcomic. Whatever strikes your fancy, whatever you’re in a mood to do, you can do it when you don’t feel like advancing the general plot right now.

All of these, in writing, you can’t. You don’t have a visual aspect to hold on to: all you have is your writing style, and your story. You can’t take a vacation from both at the same time, and you can hardly take a vacation from either, because they’re tied together. Once you’re started, you’ve got to go on the same tracks, there’s no way out.

Sure, it’s fine when it’s a paid gig for a newspaper or magazine. But not for a hobby, ,and particularly not for me.

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Xarro, 7 years ago:

Mmh... c'est exact. C'est l'intérêt d'utiliser plusieurs media. L'écriture est un bon medium, mais il est unique. Il est donc le seul élément sur lequel repose la cohérence.

Enfin, pas tout à fait, maintenant que j'y pense. Je pourrais changer de style et garder la trame narrative, je pense. Imagine que je me mette à écrire à l'indicatif présent, ça resterait "Darvis"... Enfin, je crois. Peut-être que ce serait moins "Darvis". Mais pas tout à fait plus ça.

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