Funny Comic Strips - Important Tips

You need to understand fundamentals of funny comic strips, which are created sincerely without any kind of favoritism or narrow prejudices. The main aim should be the presentation of humor for the sake of humor only. It has to be interesting and exciting to catch the attention of readers and they should feel comfortable and pleased with the final effect of the creation. Successful personalities practice the art of creating amusing comic strips to bring humor in life. There are various features in the technique and it takes reasonable time to complete the strip with attributes of humor. Intellect plays a vital role in the creation with the element of timing sense and the capability of presenting matching words, which complement the sketch to produce the desired feeling of humor in readers. The theme is immaterial and an artist of the high caliber can produce humor from almost on any subject because of the nature of vision. It is important how do you look at an incident or at a subject and bring out humor from it. The special vision involves the ability to look at a subject in an incredible way.

If you are interested in creating funny comic strips, you need to use the special vision and create sketches of the incident in the notebook. You should perceive the funny element in the drawing or so to say the lighter side of the subject. Getting tensed with the job would unnecessarily mess up the whole effort and hence, you should maintain a lighter mood when you create sketches of comic art. Maintain the humorous outlook and carry on with the job of creating comic art is the ideal situation, which you should aspire for. Practice involving humorous side of everything or present suitable jokes to strengthen the comic work is some of the major features of the creation.

Books For the Well-Rounded Man

Books From The Master of Horror and Suspense

Humans do their utmost to avoid being in scary, suspenseful situations, and yet humans built a multimillion publication and entertainment industry based entirely on the scary and the suspenseful. Every year (and this happens not just on Halloween), Hollywood offers us a roster of suspense thrillers, horror mysteries, and other movies in between. Bookstores dedicate whole walls and shelves to the mystical and the spine-tingling.

If you would look closely, you would realize that always present among these shelves is a Stephen King book. Just what is it about horror, suspense, and "the King" have that got people hooked up? Even in video stores, racks reserved for horror movies contain at least one movie adaptation of a Stephen King book. Is it his writing style? His dry humor at times? The witty banters and dialogues? The characters you can easily identify with and relate to, who are ordinary people he placed in extraordinary situations? His frank, straight-to-the-point narrative? Or is it his insane ideas - the way he transforms ordinary things into something macabre and suspicious - that hold readers into his power to entertain, frighten, and terrify?

Stephen King's writing career spans forty years, covering numerous works from the first stories he wrote as a teenager growing up in Maine to his work collaborations and recent publications in the second decade of the 2000s.

Is Christmas Real? The Best Humorous Arguments For Conversation For And Against By A Philosopher

If thinking logically has any possible value, thinking logically about Christmas, an institutionally established holiday, would seem a good thing to do.

Why do we say this? We just do. Whatever Christmas is, people seem to believe in it since they devote so much time to it, and devoting so much time by so many people to something that is not real would seem totally illogical, wouldn't it, if that activity were not real?

Why would anyone give precious time and energy to something that is not real? It would not make sense, would it? We all consider time precious, don't we? Or why else would we keep agendas?

Book Review - Happily Married With Kids

With 25 years of experience in marriage counseling, a husband and two children of her own under her belt, Dr. Carol Ummel Lindquist is an expert when it comes to making a marriage work-with or without kids. Her recent book, Happily Married with Kids is a step-by-step guide to transforming the fantasy of a perfect marriage into a reality.

"The current high standards for parenting lead to low standards for marriage," says Lindquist. "The irony of these contrasting standards is that having a healthy marriage is a great gift for your children and yourself." Her goal is to educate parents, happily married or otherwise, on how to develop and maintain relationships that will benefit their entire family.

In Happily Married with Kids, Lindquist teaches moms and dads to avoid "the real parent trap" of exhaustion and disruption, manage conflicts and improve communication with spouse and children, stay best friends with their spouses, balance work and family, enjoy their kids-and each other-at any age, revive their sex life, find humor in everyday difficulties and make time for themselves and their marriages.

Humor Can Help You On Your Date

Apart from having a decent physical appearance and good looks, girls prefer those men who have a good sense of humor. Usually people tend to feel relaxed whenever they come across anybody with a good sense of humor. Humor also helps in developing an intimate and trustworthy relationship as one finds humorous people confident, attractive, easy to approach and pleasant to converse.

The most convenient manner of developing a humorous attitude is to be in the company of people who are humorous. Usually, one does get influenced by personalities. Apart from this, one can also hang out at the local laughter club. It is easy to influence your date with a good laughter session.

Another good strategy is to have a personal humor library that has a wide collection of humorous and light-hearted books, comics, movies and TV shows that tickle the mind and induce laughter. Regular referencing of your collection is the most appropriate method to get rid of stress and nervousness. Apart from this, any joke or funny situation from these books or movies can be used to ease the tension during your first date as well as to cheer up your partner.

Comic Heroes You Should Be Reading About

Although in today's world there are many different comic books and series to choose from, I find that it is best to read from a few series religiously and then pick up single issues that look interesting on the side. For those series you choose to read all the time, I suggest a subscription to ease the continuous blows to your wallet each week or month. For once in a while reads, keep picking them up at the stands but once you feel yourself looking forward to reading that specific comic a few times in a row, you may want to think subscription.

Okay then, that was the easy part, now here comes the hard part. Which comics should I subscribe to and which are best left on the stands? I'm so glad that you asked. In my opinion the best comics to read are the ones that revolve around your favorite comic heroes. Now that may seem pretty self explanatory but look at the key word favorite. Favorite doesn't mean top twelve, instead I would try and subscribe to your top four heroes. I'm not trying to dissuade you from reading more than four comic series. Quite the opposite, read as many as you'd like, but for your wallets sake, subscribing to the top four isn't a bad idea.

"But I like so many comics! I can't possibly just choose four!" you may say. Well, if it is too hard for you to decide on your own who to read let me show you my top four comic heroes and explain why you should also be reading them.

Tintin Books and the Hollywood Treatment

In 1929, a French cartoon series appeared as a children's supplement in Belgian newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle. Very few would have suspected the international success story that would follow. Written and drawn by Belgian artist Herge, the series focused on the adventures of boy reporter Tintin and his faithful sidekick french terrier dog Snowy. The stories revolved around Tintin's globetrotting adventures in the post depression world, with a number of stories drawing upon real world events (such as the moon landings). Tintin's adventures were infused with Hergé's own sense of wonderment, adventure and humor. A colorful cast of supporting characters such as Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus and the Thompson twins rounded out the ensemble. Although Herge may not have known it his beautiful art style and knack for adventure storytelling ensured that on January 10 1929, a star was born.

Tintin books have entertained fans for almost a century now. The series spawned a set of comics (24 in all). Its legacy remains as one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. It has been translated in over 50 different languages and sold more than 200 million copies.

My earliest memories of Tintin come from reading the comic series as a child in the library. My parents would leave me for hours at a time at the local library while they went grocery shopping and I quickly became familiar with Tintin's adventures. I was immediately drawn to Tintin because I loved the art style of the books and enjoyed the swashbuckling nature of the stories. It reminded me in many ways of the classic serialized adventure stories of Indiana Jones as Tintin seemed to have the same quality of jumping from one inescapable predicament to the next. It was a classic formula of adventure and humor which I always thought would be perfect as a feature motion picture. As the years passed, I stopped reading Tintin as real life took hold. However, recent news of a Tintin movie being produced brought with it a wave of nostalgia.

Interview With a Comic - Carol Leifer, Author Of 'When You Lie About Your Age, The Terrorists Win'

One of the comics that I admired for her sharp observational humor is Carol Leifer. Well, Carol just published a very funny book called, "When You Lie About Your Age, The Terrorists Win." She writes about embracing her life and her age and her writing is insightful and hilarious.

I just had the great fortune to interview Carol about her life and her new book.

ec. We both grew up on Long Island but we never had any play dates together. Another thing we have in common were fathers who were both naturally very funny. Were you influenced by your father's sense of humor or did you develop your own style?

CL. My father was a huge influence on me. He was an optometrist by trade (and how could he NOT go into that profession with a name like Seymour - SEE MORE? Get it?) but always dreamed of being a comedian. He was the king of the joke tellers and no one told a joke like he did. I was very fascinated by him as a young girl watching him hold court and tell jokes to friends around the neighborhood or at family gatherings. My father also had good taste in comedians. He would always call us kids down to the basement when a great comic was on The Ed Sullivan Show. So comedy was important to the family and I believe it's in your DNA when you grow up like that.

Cartoon Humor Can Tickle Your Funny Bone

Didn't the world seem a lot better during Saturday morning cartoons? There was no school, no troubles and no homework worries as cartoon humor entertained us for hours. All it took was the favorite show, a bowl of corn flakes and a never ending smile. Somehow, the tradition faded in time but if you still like cartoons, you are in luck.

There are so many new options that you would be left confused. You can now enjoy cartoons on television shows, morning newspapers and the internet. Whenever you are lonely or sad, turn on your favorite cartoon and roll away in laughter. Remember that your responsibilities increase as you grow old, but the child inside you does not die. You can always bring that back by reading the morning Garfield strip or checking out the new SpongeBob show.

The comic strip in the newspapers was a favorite for most people as they grew up. What started out as a small strip has grown into a variety of world famous cartoons. You can probably remember Archies and Garfield. Now you can choose between a variety of cartoon strips from Calvin and Hobbes to The Wizard Of Id. If that is not enough, you can also catch your cartoons as television shows on morning channels. What can be better than bugs bunny outsmarting the hunter or the road runner defeating his smart enemies. You would laugh and laugh until you have tears in your eyes. From getting hit with anvils to blasting each other with cannons, it's a dream world of fun and laughter.