Silent Sillies 081 - Ice Cream Calamity by JK-Antwon on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Silent Sillies 081 - Ice Cream Calamity by JK-Antwon

This comic strip looks very appealing from a distance. I like Ub Iwerks style cartoons and the structured six panel layoff harks back to the Sunday cartoons of the Los Angeles Herald of 1905.

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The characters Wally Wolf and Sidney Squirrel are too similar. It's hard to tell them apart. The size, body shape and faces look like cookie cutter characters.

The action is not clear. Did the Wolf eat the Squirrel's ice cream cone? The arms and hands fall into the background or overlap another character. The faces seem frozen and fail to communicate emotional changes in the characters. In general, the characters need a wider pallet of emotions and expression.

This could be a great strip but it needs work.

Elwood Edward Howes