Grumble | |||||
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| CID: | 16135 | Subscriptions: | 1 | ||
| Frequency: | Inactive | ||||
| Url: | http://grumblecomic.com/ | ||||
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama | ||||
| Description*: | I like writing systems and alphabets and stuff, so I decided to make my own. I of course didn't make anything with any sort of internal consistency, but that's not important. Originally the font only included letters, a couple of punctuation marks, and even then not every letter in the Roman alphabet. One day I decided to draw a picture and include my new font in it somehow. I don't know why I decided on strangly shaped colorful blob people with stick limbs, but that is what came out. One day the gang was all like "We need to make comics and put them on a website!" When I decided to make Grumble into a comic, I needed a new font, so I remade it in a handdrawn, more cartoony way, and included several symbols that I hadn't had before, such as the rest of the letters used in English as well as more punctuation and numerals. Because this makes the comic pretty much one big cryptogram people tend to want to translate it, but I don't think that's really necessary or even appropriate. Sometimes I will do things to the text to make it harder (but never impossible) to translate, just to discourage it (or maybe encourage it?), or maybe I just make a lot of typos. The idea is that you're not supposed to be able to understand what is being said, only that something is being said. So the length of a word balloon or the repetition of dialogue within a balloon can carry meaning without actually knowing what is being said. It's not necessarily funny. Sometimes a comic will just be two people talking about nothing in general with nothing happening. Sometimes it will just be a scene or even a single facial expression that I wanted to draw, that just gets confusing because you have no idea what's going on. I think perhaps it's best if you make up your own dialogue, or perhaps imagine some kind of generic foreign language in your head whenever you read it. But really, the comic can be interpreted however you like, and there is no wrong way to read it. It's not supposed to be high art. I just like bright primary colors. | ||||
* Descriptions are user submitted and might not express the views of the admins of this site, or of the comics creators themselves. | |||||
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| Entry Added: | Thu, Mar 5, 2009 | ||||
| Entry Modified: | Fri, Apr 15, 2016 | ||||
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