[Groop]Some comic reviews...

[Mark Evanier]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:55:59 -0800, "Gary Grossmann"
<grossfam@olywa.net> wrote:

>Mark, do you know of any other comic, besides Cerebus, that has had the same
>creative team for 154 regular issues, 1 special, 2 graphic novels, and 7
>shorts over 20 years?  (OK, so Tom wasn't in on the first few issues and
>needed a sub sometimes, but it's close enough)

ME: Nope.

>Mark, I don't know how things work for a comedy writer, but once you decided
>to have Pipal talk like Elmer Fudd, did that make the dialogue easier to
>write, harder, or the same, from a being funny standpoint?  I would think it
>might make it easier because things that were not necessarily funny
>normally, are when spoken in fudeese, but I don't know what I'm talking
>about.

ME: Harder...because certain words don't "read" properly that way and
I had to keep rephrasing to minimize them.  ("Work" would be an
example.  If I typed it "wowk," would people know what word it had
once been?)
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