Favorite strips (For shirts)

Khavren · Post by **Khavren** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 12:56 pm

I've gotten everything else in terms of Faans gear, but don't really like the t-shirt. In order to offer actual constructive critiscm I went back through the archives and pulled out every strip I think would like really cool on a t-shirt. Since it's not really worth it to make a t-shirt for one person, I'm hoping that enough other people will agree with one of my selections that T will find it possibly worth it to create one of these as an alternative. I tried to keep it to one strip per character, but couldn't cut down myself anymore on a couple of the most interesting people.

Vitriol · Post by **Vitriol** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 2:19 pm

How about just a quote:

"Crouch on the kneeling benches! God and their rubber legs will protect you!"

Heh, love that.

Judy · Post by **Judy** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 8:51 pm

On 2002-03-14 14:19, Vitriol wrote:
How about just a quote:

"Crouch on the kneeling benches! God and their rubber legs will protect you!"

Heh, love that.

I do as well, but it's not nearly as funny out of context.

Judy

Silversmoke · Post by **Silversmoke** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 9:59 pm

yeah! i got in one ^_^

Doublespeak · Post by **Doublespeak** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 11:08 pm

On 2002-03-14 21:59, silversmoke wrote:
yeah! i got in one ^_^

The more I look at your work Silversmoke, the more I like it. You did a great job on your run.

Ray Radlein · Post by **Ray Radlein** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 11:44 pm

On 2002-03-14 12:56, Khavren wrote:
I've gotten everything else in terms of Faans gear, but don't really like the t-shirt. In order to offer actual constructive critiscm I went back through the archives and pulled out every strip I think would like really cool on a t-shirt. Since it's not really worth it to make a t-shirt for one person, I'm hoping that enough other people will agree with one of my selections that T will find it possibly worth it to create one of these as an alternative. I tried to keep it to one strip per character, but couldn't cut down myself anymore on a couple of the most interesting people.

The main thing I see is that most of these are full pages, or things which require a lot of context to achieve their full significance. I think a t-shirt needs to be fairly simple in design, with a large primary visual element.

My example would be the bottom panel of this image, for Rumy:

http://www.faans.com/images/30-2.gif

(with text caption: She's Also Very Shy
FAANS.COM)

Fandom

http://www.faans.com/d/20000315.html

This would be a good one, especially with the speech balloons removed (the text can be the caption, along with the FAANS.COM tag line). On the one hand, it's very busy; but on the other hand, it does not require any knowledge of Fans!, which is a good thing.

Another possibility is the central panel in

http://www.faans.com/images/78.gif

(Caption: "Registration Went Pretty Well at The Con this Year")

Shanna

http://www.faans.com/d/20000519.html
http://faans.com/d/20010319.html

How about the bottom panel of http://www.faans.com/images/51-3.gif

(caption: "A Manly Comic for Manly Men
FAANS.COM"

Alison

http://www.faans.com/d/20000808.html
http://faans.com/d/20010719.html
http://faans.com/d/20010912.html
http://faans.com/d/20010913.html

How about Alisin's close-up panel of http://www.faans.com/images/86-4.gif

Tim

http://www.faans.com/d/20000828.html

Perfect -- either use the bottom two panels on the front of the shirt, or put the nex-to-last panel (http://www.faans.com/images/176-6.gif) on the front, and the last panel (http://www.faans.com/images/176-7.gif) on the back.

Arlen

http://www.faans.com/d/20000404.html

How about the upper right-hand panel in http://www.faans.com/images/81-4.gif

(caption: "Arlen Staranka
Two-Fisted Writer
FAANS.COM")

Hmmm. I'll have to think about some other possibilities.

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Tom the Fanboy · Post by **Tom the Fanboy** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 1:26 am

I for one would be happy to get the cover of Faans! #1 on a shirt. In color of course.

I must adress something that I've noticed a lot of people doing, newbies specifically. We dealt with this issue when T finally came down and laid out that it was Rumy. Period.

The name of Rikk's wife is Alisin. Two "I"s. Her "real" name may be Alison Worthington but for the uss of the comic and the board it is Alisin Oberf (Unless of course she kept her last name for some reason). Every time I see Alison I hear a sneering voice referring to her as a weak little girl. Please respect her choice as we respect Rikk, Rumy, and Meaghan (OK, scratch the last one).

Silversmoke · Post by **Silversmoke** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 10:55 pm

thank you doublespeak ^_^ you might be interested to know i've just finished a fans based piece (ohkeigh, so its an alisin piece... she is my favorite)...

It may or may not go up depending on how T feels about it... its god to know i haven't been forgotton.

Tom the Fanboy · Post by **Tom the Fanboy** » Sat Mar 16, 2002 4:11 pm

Heck, even if T doesn't put it up I'll always have room for it on the isle of misfit fanart that IS Billberg University.

I don't think T ever linked the "Emergency Page" that Godai did but I sure got it! And I can't see anything you draw being worse looking than that (not to hurt old Godai's feelings of course).