As an artist, I would struggle with that panel. Not because I don’t know how phones work, but I want to be able to depict the words coming from the phone, not the character holding the phone, without the reader getting confused about who’s is saying what.
I think even if you put the speech bubble next to the phone it would be fine, since the phone uses a different speech bubble style than the previous panel
It’s a reference to The Ring, a Japanese horror that was remade in the US. It’s about people watching a tape. The depicted girl is Samara, who crawls out of the TV set and warns people that they’ll die within 7 days (and then makes sure that happens). Idk it’s been a long time since I saw it
In defence that’s not a landline issue, that’s a god damn rotary phone. Touchtone phones were invented in 1963. So… people under 60 years old have likely never used them. I’m nearly 40, I’m pretty sure cordless phones were pretty standard in my house.
That being said, yeah even cordless phones, you’d surely know the basestation isn’t where the sound comes from. Though I’d imagine it’s probably just in ease of communicating the joke, as the focus is to make sure the reader isn’t mistaking it to be the girl speaking, as if you put it at the earpiece that’s still roughly where you’d put a speach bubble to represent the girl speaking without a phone.
Why are the words coming out of the cradle and not the receiver? Artist don’t know how landlines work?
As an artist, I would struggle with that panel. Not because I don’t know how phones work, but I want to be able to depict the words coming from the phone, not the character holding the phone, without the reader getting confused about who’s is saying what.
Sure, it’s inaccurate, but it’s also functional.
Close up on face and phone, would be my guess on how to easily resolve this while keeping the same tone
I think even if you put the speech bubble next to the phone it would be fine, since the phone uses a different speech bubble style than the previous panel
I dunno? Maybe put the headset on the other ear and point to the ear piece.
I still have no idea what’s going on…. (John wick? Some recluse? I’m confused.)
It’s a reference to The Ring, a Japanese horror that was remade in the US. It’s about people watching a tape. The depicted girl is Samara, who crawls out of the TV set and warns people that they’ll die within 7 days (and then makes sure that happens). Idk it’s been a long time since I saw it
In defence that’s not a landline issue, that’s a god damn rotary phone. Touchtone phones were invented in 1963. So… people under 60 years old have likely never used them. I’m nearly 40, I’m pretty sure cordless phones were pretty standard in my house.
That being said, yeah even cordless phones, you’d surely know the basestation isn’t where the sound comes from. Though I’d imagine it’s probably just in ease of communicating the joke, as the focus is to make sure the reader isn’t mistaking it to be the girl speaking, as if you put it at the earpiece that’s still roughly where you’d put a speach bubble to represent the girl speaking without a phone.
I’ve used a rotary…
…… at grandma’s house….
I used plenty of rotary phones in the 80s. I don’t miss them, either.
my grandparents had one when i was a kid. the wire went through some sort of pulse-to-tone converter box. nostalgia is powerful.
But the difference between the speech bubbles already makes the distinction clear imo.
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