![[0329] Outside The Box](/comics/2011-11-28-0329-outside-the-box.png "[0329] Outside The Box")
Larisa is talking with Corporal Bear from the webcomic Bear and Tiger which ended a couple of weeks ago.
Our new fantasy webcomic Gaia is online! Click on the cover to read from the beginning:
- Larisa: Yesterday, I had a clever idea for a funny picture. I uploaded the finished drawing to DeviantArt…
- Larisa: … That’s when I noticed that it’s been done before, by over a dozen other artists!
- Corporal Bear: With 7 billion humans on this planet, it’s no surprise that it’s getting harder and harder to come up with something truly original.
- Larisa: Yeah, you gotta think outside the box around the box.
- Sandra: No, I have no idea what you could draw in the last panel either.
- Larisa: Darn.
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Yes Larisa, yes… But why the luge and the bear ?
Go the Jim Henson route: end with something exploding or someone getting eaten. (I’m betting Larisa goes with the first option)
Hey larissa, what’s your deviantart?
@ Félix: It’s a reference to Bear and Tiger
…just…so…META! I love it. A comic about comics based on a comic in a comic similar to the same comic that looks at writing comics.
@ Frank: Shame on me.
*snerk*
I’d say that was pretty clever!
Also, yay for DeviantArt.
reminded me instantly of Calvin and Hobbes lol
@ Ryan:
… and that in a way, so that the inner comic imitates (maybe parodies) another comic that the outer comic has referred to in its very beginning. I think the metaness (or is it “metanity”?) is becoming a trope, here. And here I am commenting about that, while also commenting about me commenting. That
is
so
meta
even
this
acronym
…
no, wait, even that’s been done before. I better stop.
@ das-g:
Link fail. I meant “been done before“. I think I need a syntax check for HTML in my comments. Or a preview button.
Did I mention I like hyperlinks?
Sandra and Woo desirve a Wikipedia’s page – in french, which is which I am sorry 🙂
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_et_Woo
Me neither.
Just curious. At this point, who all knows Woo can speak? (Reference to the linked comic where Sandra first finds out.)
Pretty sure the hunter is aware (although nobody else believes him). I doubt the father is aware.
Do Cloud and Larisa know?
(sniff) I smell Calvin and Hobbes!
now….this is a problem…
I have my “original” Ideas for some stories but when I think about it’s like :
“Now that I think about it…a teenager in a tournament full of monsters….?!..I know I saw this somewhere…”
IDEA: Comic-Larisa shoots out of the panel of Larisa’s comic, behind Sandra and Larisa, and out the door. Motion is shown in a series of images.
Larissa is over thinking it. Nothing is ever created or destroyed without some internal or external influence.
it is always the last part people get stuck on, same thing with essays
Mathematically speaking every time you think of an idea, 4 different people somewhere in the world think of the same idea at the exact same time!
Shippou-chan wrote:
No, they don’t. Not yet anyway.
Outside the box… OK.
Final frame: the finished strip is lying on a drawing board (with an infinite duplicative regression on the final frame, natch), with a number of other strips, all depicting characters sledging, taped up alongside for “reference” . The characters in these strips chip in, probably speaking into the picture plane for ease of reading:
Calvin: “What has been will be again,”
Hobbes: “What has been done will be done again;”
Snoopy: “There is nothing new under the sun.”
Corporal Bear: Ecclesiastes 1:9, New International Version.
Larissa: (resigned, frustrated grimace) Amen.
Isn’t that Private bear from Bear and Tiger?
Calvin and Hobbes ftw!! Almost a complete copy. 😀 I think they end up in a snow drift. 😀
People expects the unexpected so do something expected my dear pyromaniac.
I have an idea! Conclude it with the bear saying “Well–all art begins in imitation and ends in innovation, so it’s not so much not having an original idea as what you do with it, I guess.”
I thought the answer for Larissa was always fire . . .
Oh wait, she’s drawing here. I remember her art. I understand the conundrum now. 😉 ‘
This really is the eternal debate for artists though. That’s what leads to the insanity n the end.
Larissa’s comic self looks cute. There should be more of those (and she really DOES draw nicely. Glad it’s not all that stereotypical mayhem and chaos people insisted since the painting arc with her and her dad.
As for an idea for the last panel…
(Larissa and Bear appear sprawled at the base of panel four; Bear on top of her signed name, and Larissa just beside it.)
Bear: I didn’t think you would mean literally.
Larissa: (staring at awe at the third panel, realizing she’s seeing the comic world from outside) Me neither…
She should draw the two of them crashing through the box that forms the panel’s border, xD
Last panel Larisa? Don’t overthink about it… just make something go BOOM! And it’ll be ok.
Or make an avalanche happen.
i think i know where this is going ^^
There seems to be a glitch in the comment rating system where comments receive a large number of positive or negative votes for no reason at all.
@ Dizzy D.:
michael wrote:
Hehe, beat you to it. 😛 As they say, great minds think alike…
Maybe it just needs more panels… (WITH ALL THEM BEING EMPTY, MWHAHAHAHA!!!!)
She DID draw something there! AVALANCHE! Original too^^
Writer’s block sucks like nothing else. I am saying that from experience.
@ Novil
Novil Wrote:
Is this just for this round or was this happening before? I was getting really confused when I’d get like 27 neg votes in the span of about ten minutes. I could not figure out for the life of me what I said that was so offensive, lol. Thanks for letting us know though, Novil.
Stephanie wrote:
@ Stephanie
That would actually be a pretty funny final box (as long as people got the earlier Calvin & Hobbes reference). Even if it just had their little legs or her braid sticking out of the snow. Heh. You’re kind of brilliant.
I am sorry for the back-to-back posts. I had missed this comment on my first view down.
oh this reminds me, what is powree’s dA? if you have one.
I love DeviantART…
Maybe something OUTSIDE and AROUND the BOX?
Yo dawg, so I heard you like comics…..
maybe do the mixture and have them fall out of the panel Like the old school calvin and hobbes Stuff. You know every time they Sled, they hit a tree or fall off, go with the references.
Looking at this a day and a half later, well you’ve already drawn a box, Larissa. Now you just need to put something outside of it!
@ Shippou-chan:
Cloud herd him talk when they were watching the Dark Knight but only expressed hearing him when he said “I thought there was another voice here” It’s never been re-visited or elaborated on.
I wonder if Woo’s previous owner knew as well though
@ Furubatsu:
No, the owner did not know. Woo talks about hiding it in the beginning.
Don’t you see? The last panel IS the most original you can get! It could be a totally unrelated image of the back of a polar bear in a snow storm. Or maybe an abstract piece done in ultraviolet and infrared. Or maybe the girl and the bear have whited out and the last panel is a POV shot. The possibilities are endless!
Originality is impossible, it leads to struggling and overcomplicating your ideas till they just dont make sense to you anymore
@ Ryan:
It’s So Meta, Even This Acronym.
Kudos to anyone who gets the joke, who or what it’s about, or where it comes from. If you manage all three, you get a facebook friend request! 😀
Keep one webcomic inside it’s own comic. xkcd, by the way. @ Hobbes:
And yet still no Inception reference.
We heard you like comics, so we put a comic in your comic so you can comic while you comic..
Also, Larissa should just draw the characters outside the panel she’s drawn, with a few smart-ass comments from the characters. Outside the box-puns, how fun.