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RE[2]: Always the doors

by Thom_Holwerda on Tue 11th Mar 2008 15:15 UTC in reply to "RE: Always the doors"

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The doors are a sort of signature style of his. Eventually you'll see a comic of a behind-closed-office-doors conversation, and you'll invariably think "Focus Shift". Just as seeing a stick-figure brings up memories of xkcd.com, or bug-eyed round faces reminds one of Garfield, so too Thom has his own style that is consistent and getting better with each comic.

That is kind of the idea, yeah. Whether you're staring at the same stick (Xkcd) or blob (C&H) figures, or at a door with a different logo each time - more or less the same to me. I guess what bothers some is not the doors in and of itself, but the simple fact that I haven't yet shown anything even remotely resembling a human or an animal. I guess that unnerves people or something.

I don't find his work the best or funniest on the net by far, but it's a great effort and he's doing it for the fun of it. I think it's just fine.

Hah, I don't have any illusions on this front myself. I wouldn't even want to put Focus Shift in the same sentence as xkcd, C&H, or UserFriendly (wait, I just did), let alone compare myself to them. I do think that for someone who drew his first ever comic just 2.5 months ago, I'm doing relatively fine.

Thanks, though

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Edited 2008-03-11 15:16 UTC

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