One aspect of comics that can easily be
overlooked as being an unchanging standard of the medium is the
humble caption box. The caption box as many of you are well aware is
a method of usually either narration or internal thought. How often
has a comic appeared that has tinkered with the conventions of this
humble conveyor of information? Well the comic Daytripper does just
that. The first caption boxes you see are in a ragged and torn style
such as depicted here.
This crisp and clean caption is
much more standard. Why the use of these two different styles? Well
the reason being is that the standard boxes are your usual narration,
but the torn and ragged caption boxes are actually obituaries written
by the main character. This is something that is slowly realized as
it is revealed later that the main character is actually writing the
yellow boxes and is a cause for the reader to turn back to these
first boxes to make the distinction between the two. While this isn't
exactly an earth-shattering revelation to make it is important to
note that anything that can be considered standard fare in comics is
open to be tinkered and messed with in order to give a comic some
unique charm to it, just like here in day tripper.
While I'm sure I could fish around the
internet and explore other comics or webcomics that push the
boundaries of the humble caption box further, but I've been
instructed to keep these blog posts short.
Until next time Everyone!
- Blake
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