Rejected Joke #1
Added 2024-06-22 22:35:27 +0000 UTCI spent some time this week going through an old notebook filled with potential jokes for Dork, looking for a Fun Strip springboard to draw for the Patreon. I mostly found jokes I already used. I also found some loose sketches of stuff to possibly pitch to MAD (some may be old enough to have been aimed at Nickelodeon Magazine). This batch might have been material I never sent to anyone, because they were too weak and needed to be punched up. Obviously I never punched them up.
I kind of remember liking this at the time -- enough to make a quick sketch of it --but looking at it now it's just flat and lifeless, the context isn't there, it's a cartooning bit without context. Or something like that. It's not funny. Instead of tossing it in the recycling bin I might toss it into an art package as an extra sketch. Unless I get mad at it for stinking and tear it up.
Anyway, a reminder that for every joke that works, there's a hundred or hundreds of misfires, stinkers and egg-layers. And some weak tea that seemed palatable at the time.
Comments
I appreciate hearing that. I haven't done a convention in over five years, or more, so I haven't tried to sell any roughs. If I sell a cover or piece that I still have the layouts for, I include them in the mailing. I've been doing more layout stuff in sketchbooks over the last few years so I have less of these troughs lying around loose. I tend to throw index card drawings and comics into packages nowadays as extras.
Evan Dorkin
2024-06-23 04:32:09 +0000 UTCAs someone who still treasures some blue line sketches you sold me at a show, I think there's always something you do that would fit the right fan. Surprise inserts in shipments is awesome, like a prize in your cereal box.
Stepahn Struhorik
2024-06-23 01:47:55 +0000 UTC
