![]() Not so sure my lettering is effective as more typical examples listed above ( ha, Krakathoom? who thinks of that?) but this page in my comic uses two examples of stylized lettering to represent different things. I still have a lot of work to do about learning fonts and how to best use them but in my mind that's an imporant part of learning how to make comics. I personally do use sound effects but I always try to incorporate them into the move of the action or the flow of the panel. They are a skill on their own and I think they require more effort than just slapping some text on a panel. A story that doesn't include any necessary sounds, don't require sound effects either.Īll in all, I think sound effects are important when used well. I think one of the reasons modern comics may not have many sound effects could be that they don't need them. A bloodcurling scream as a sound effect works much better to show terror than if it was placed in a speech bubble. They can also be used to indicate the direction of the sound or the type of the sound. I think they can also be an art form in themselves, since with good typography sound effects can be made part of the art. Sound effects may not be in the style of 60's Batman but explosions still use BOOMs and guns make BANGs. However sounds effects that form actual sounds are still viable and very useful in my opinion. Though, I do believe these type of sound effects are remnants of creators learning to use manga sound effects, which are a whole thing on themselves but don't translate well to other languages, especially not English. The action should be obvious from the art. I agree with you that the use of descriptive sound effects, like "grabs" or "opens" is pointless. ![]() I can see what is going on, granted sometimes I can see why the creator would use them but writing "grabs" when the character grabs something is just overkill for me and I always roll my eyes when I see something like that. ![]() I also find writing out actions (like "grabs" or "turns" or whatever) to be so. Personally I will stop using majority of them because I really find them taking up the space or getting in the way of composition for panels. This got me thinking, are sound effects necessary anymore? Are sound effects obsolete? Do you use sound effects and do you think they are beneficial or harmful to comics today? ![]() So I ran to my bookshelf and picked a pretty recent comic I bought and I was right, no sound effects, and I checked some other ones and sound effects are so few and far between now. I haven't seen sound effects in modern comics in a while. I was working on some pages today and I started to think about which fonts to use for sound effects when I realized. ![]()
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