All summer, as part of the Making Learning Connected MOOC, I’ve been dabbling with an comic maker on my app called Rosie (although she has only appeared a few times … I’ve been using other minor characters). This week’s Make Cycle is all about hacking your writing, so I created this comic:
But I wanted to hack the comic, too, to do something to make it different by laying meaning on top of it. It’s a bit too difficult (although not impossible) to hack the actual comic — I could have emptied out the dialogue boxes, I suppose (which is now sparking an idea for CLMOOC … sort of like that Garfield Minus Garfield site where they remove Garfield, leaving Jon, the man, looking like he is losing his mind. And it turns out there are other variations of the Garfield remix. And then there is the random Garfield generator. And look at this — Square Root Garfield, where people send in ideas to be created. What is with the Garfield remix focus?)
Anyway, I took my original comic and moved it into another comic maker, and added some snarky commenting from another set of comic characters (well, me, as in my avatar), giving it a sort of meta-comic look.
Does it work as a comic? I suppose. As a writing hack? Yeah, it does. I think.
Peace (in the frames),
Kevin
Late add: I worked on a variation of my comic — removing the dialogue and opening it for others to submit their own dialogue ideas as a sort of “group hack” and you are invited:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1L9-5Ck6iWIzSyTfWblD85pWMxSQREOT4JHMgP-RNwRU/viewform?usp=send_form
Kevin