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If you wish to compromise, you could do something like this:
[Click to view comic: 'Inter Sturggle Flight 284: For Chuckaduck']
Nah. And to illustrate my point, let me bring to you
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A Lesson in Stripping
There are only two states a comic reader can be in.
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[*]the reader knows who the characters are
[*]the reader doesn't know who the characters are
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1) If the reader is in the first state, then obviously it is unnecessary to tell the reader who they are. This also applies to duck's strips, when even if the reader began in state 2, he is in state 1 after he starts reading the comic since the characters' names are forced down his throat from the get-go. But I digress.
2) The tricky part is if the reader is in the second state. The stripper must first decide what about the characters the reader needs to know.
2a) About 98.4 times out of 100, the characters' names are not on the need-to-know list, in which case you can simply write the comic with no introductions in the speech balloons or even narration boxes. I didn't read all of your strips, duck, but I suspect this is where your comics would fall.
2b) In the rare case that the reader does need to know the characters' names, then a skilled stripper will work that information into the flow of the conversation within the strip, rather than ham-handedly slamming it into some distracting place.
Examples
An example of how to work a name into a strip gracefully is
[Click to view comic: 'Stream of Comicness V|']
although it might not be the most appropriate example, since the name isn't really necessary for the strip. Another example of a strip where the characters' names aren't important is
[Click to view comic: 'Stream of Comicness |X']
Note how all information unrelated to the joke are totally left out: including the names of the characters.
This helpful tip has been brought to you by: not_Scyess and the letters F and U.
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