At what point did Garfield become about doing the least amount of drawing possible?
To help answer that question, I superimposed panels 2 and 3 (at 50% transparency) of today’s comic on top of panel 1 to see what changed and what was constant:
As we see, even in this comic where there is some movement, Garf’s gut and feet remain a constant anchor.
I think even all 3 overlapped would come out pretty much the same. This was actually a decent comic, but the overall lack of visuals really took away from it, especially on Garfield. I think in older comics, he would have been walking away from Odie in a strip like this.
Recently, @albbi@piefed.ca asked:
To help answer that question, I superimposed panels 2 and 3 (at 50% transparency) of today’s comic on top of panel 1 to see what changed and what was constant:
As we see, even in this comic where there is some movement, Garf’s gut and feet remain a constant anchor.
That’s actually pretty good for a modern Garfield. There have been some with literally no change other than the speech bubbles.
I think even all 3 overlapped would come out pretty much the same. This was actually a decent comic, but the overall lack of visuals really took away from it, especially on Garfield. I think in older comics, he would have been walking away from Odie in a strip like this.
Oh yeah, all 3 are overlapped. The only difference between panels 1 and 2 is: Garf’s eyeballs shift a bit, and Odie’s mouth opens.