Friday, August 13, 2010

Comic Strip...My Reflection

....women dieting - classic!

I have never before written a comic and, to my surprise, I came to like it. I reckon it’s a very witty way to put down your thoughts concerning trivial as well as controversial matters. Witty though, at the same time, tough, mainly because you need to, first, think of the ideas you’d like to share with others,and then, you should also carefully select the way you’re going to express them successfully through humour. Not that I have achieved it – hopefully I did,but humour is something very hard to achieve when writing since many variables come into play, namely the target audience, register,onomatopoeic words, and the like, and the comic writer has to keep them all in mind.
All things considered, I have found this experience most enriching and fun mainly because the task proved to be very different from what we’ve been doing, which definitely made it all the more intriguing and exciting. It certainly struck me as a really cool task to work with since it felt as a more relaxed task than other more formal ones, I guess this may be due to the fact that we were allowed to use informal language,which comes out more naturally, and of course, humour.