Format of comic strip

Necdet Sen ~ February 2002, Istanbul

2th book: Ahh Mimosa!

Inside the cover:

When I first started to create HIZLI Gazeteci, I had an aim as to erase a sophistry from brains and to success a thing that called "this can't be done in comics at all".

Sophistry was that: "Comic means action. Comic readers are empty headed and weak understanded; sophisticated details don't attract them. It's necessary to draw fist, weapon, athletic body, naked girl, detailed drawings etc. in each panel. Intellectuals don't read comics. Philosophy cant be in comics. If you do, nobody read it."

We saw altogether that if it is possible or not. Contrarily, I have drew talking heads. didn't I have any talent, actually I kept distant from decor, action, gun, fist, etc. drawings. When my political story ("Sister") was well received, I drew a love story (Mimosa ) that not touched to politics at all. When those were also well received, I drew other kind of stories which lacked of these themes. When HIZLI Gazeteci was loved too much, I told different stories that HIZLI Gazeteci was absent inside.

Experienced journalists who tells the techniques about how to write news to apprentice journalists summarizes the critical points:

"First sentence must explain the contents of news; first paragraph which include first sentence must open this summary a little bit too. This makes reader informed soon that is this news interesting him or not and make a decide to read or not rest of it at first paragraph and also help them to understand easily."

I didn't forget this principle in my comics. It has been a short dialog or event which summarizes just in the beginning of the story at strip (or page) that published first day. During continious days, the theme which explained first day were repeat a little bit detailed, also secondary figures were coming into scene.

One time at periodicly two or three weeks, I was jumping to next rank after a summary like dialog or event because readers might have lose the edge of the rope. I was doing this without stopping the story.

There are more, I was planning each chapter as continuation of previous, but whole by itself at a meantime. Because some readers may forget to read some parts of serial. They have to understand what was happening on previous days. Or some people may just begin to read; they have to enter into the story easily too. I mean, every part of the story must be completely by itself and forward events to next rank.

Story was flowing slowly as clear as possible without detailed enormously and without arrested by boring repeats.

Format and grammar are different than magazine, book or newspaper. We may imagine graphic novels for book like a movie and we may also do continously newspaper strips like tv serials.
Comic stories which are publishing at newspaper try to realize a wisdom to distinguished and attract and (for example) be the first item of needing list of confused readers as lost in hypermarket aisles. There are many rivals and mind of target is scattered and desires are pretty exagerated.

I had wrote and drawn for many years but I have no chance to learn the degree of comunication that I have build with this confused society. I hope so.

Back cover :

WE WERE IMAGINING ICONIZE THE POVERTY CAUSE WE WERE THE CHILDREN OF WAR GENERATION WHICH SAW MOBILIZATION. WE WERE SUPPOSED VIRTUE IS SUPERIOR THAN BEING WINNER.

ALL OF US? NO, JUST ONE OF US. VERY LESS OF US. WHAT ABOUT THE OTHERS? THEY ARE TREATING DEPENDENT THEIR SELFISHNESS. THEY WERE WITHOUT BREATH FOR BEYOND. THEY WERE OPPORTUNISTS.

AND WE WERE GROWED UP SUDDENLY WHEN WE WERE SUPPOSING THAT TO BE A CHILD IS A MISTAKE AND WHEN WE WERE BELIEVING ELDORADO, KELOGLAN AND PRINCESSE SUREYYA TALES.

WE WERE IN DREAMS TO BE ALTOGETHER IN EVERYTHING AND EVERYWHERE.

EXCEPT THE CHEEK OF BELOVED.

HIZLI Gazeteci, 2. book: Ahh Mimosa!, Parantez Books

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