Why not stick figures
I’m not saying you can’t do a good comic using stick figures, but it’s an uphill battle. Figure that if you can make a good joke with stick figures, you can usually make it better with better artwork – obviously, there are some exceptions.
This also seems to be one of those cases where it’s easier to draw it by hand than it is to use a (non-Cintiq) Wacom tablet, which is all I have available at the moment (my scanner has ceased functioning and really needs upgrading, anyway). So far, all of the artwork for this comic has been done using a small (3×5) Wacom tablet or a mouse and Gimp (with a couple of excursions into Inkscape).
HA! Insightful and you did a good job of hiding your talent when you drew the stick figures. Not that they’re not excellent stick figures, they are, just that they look just like stick figures and not . . . artful stick figures . . . and . . . aw never mind.
So you really think it’s a bad plan to do ungood artwork and bad jokes in the same strip? Great, I may have to rethink my comic.
Oh, I dunno. Sometimes bad jokes and not-so-good artwork go hand-in-hand. 😉
Thanks! Reading that lifted my spirit so much, I’m off to draw badly!
Is having a drawing style that’s an obvious ripoff of FoxTrot an excuse for bad jokes? Because if so, I’m set for life 😛