comicsexpert: there are different techniques of creating comic strips. Very few use the traditional technique of drawing, inking, and lettering everything on paper nowadays; most artists use digital techniques for lettering, lots use it for detail work, a good number use it for inking and some create everything in digital format. I lean towards the latter.
The strip started as an experiment using clipart instead of drawing by hand, in the tradition of the old “fumetti” I remember from National Lampoon and similar publications of the 1970’s-1990’s. Terry Gilliam got his start creating fumetti for Harvey Kurtzman’s Help! Magazine, which lends the genre a bit of authority if you ask me. And for the last two years of its existence, the WCCA recognized the genre with a “Best Photographic Comic” division.
It may not be your preferred style, but it’s no less a “comic” than any other.
comicsexpert: there are different techniques of creating comic strips. Very few use the traditional technique of drawing, inking, and lettering everything on paper nowadays; most artists use digital techniques for lettering, lots use it for detail work, a good number use it for inking and some create everything in digital format. I lean towards the latter.
The strip started as an experiment using clipart instead of drawing by hand, in the tradition of the old “fumetti” I remember from National Lampoon and similar publications of the 1970’s-1990’s. Terry Gilliam got his start creating fumetti for Harvey Kurtzman’s Help! Magazine, which lends the genre a bit of authority if you ask me. And for the last two years of its existence, the WCCA recognized the genre with a “Best Photographic Comic” division.
It may not be your preferred style, but it’s no less a “comic” than any other.