Re: Nerd Boy, episode 606

"Don Rosa" <don...@iglou.com> skrev i meddelandet
 news:8f0...@posting.google.com
> "Joaquim G�ndara" <joa...@telia.com> wrote in message
> > I find it unlikely that
> > someone who has lived his whole life in the USA wouldn't
> > know what "kick-ass" means
>
> I had a pretty good idea that it was a positive comment, but it's not
> an expression I use, so I would feel phony responding to it with an
> automatic "THANKS!". I would rather first see it phrased differently,
> then I can cheerfully say "Thank you!".

I see. Sorry about my initial disbelief. I've just come to expect
that everything's phony on the internet, and your message contained
such fragmented sentences that it seemed written by a non-native
English speaker.


> Thank you!

You're quite welcome; it bears repeating that I really enjoy your
work. In fact, I made it a point to study the pacing and structure
of your comics in preparation for my (hopefully) upcoming book. (In
case you didn't notice, this thread actually starts with a comic
strip of mine.) I seem to have found some golden rules of cartooning
in your work, and also several places where you quite masterfully
break those rules.


> So "alt.ascii-art" popped up yesterday, though I don't even have
> the slightest idea what it is.

That's what I thought. ASCII art is art made of ASCII characters,
i.e. text. Have a look at www.ascii-art.de for a lot of good
examples. Here's a selection:
http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/def/donald_duck.txt
http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/def/disney.txt

I think Joris Bellenger's ASCII art is particularly good:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~svzanten/ascii/index.html


> > It would be cool if you really were Don Rosa
>
> It would be... kick-ass?

It would indeed be kick-ass.

-- 
 OO  Joaquim G�ndara
.||. http://www.Nerd-Boy.net
 bb  jg

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