Does this comic break my informal rule of No Dialogue In The Artwork? Kind of, although I often make exceptions for what I consider to be song lyrics. Three things:

1st, I was concerned that the Oompa-loompa’s expression alone (combined with the narration) wouldn’t be clear enough for people to make the association to their judgmental songs. Maybe I’m under-estimating my audience, but I felt like in this case the text added rather than took away.

2nd, I once had a film professor who was going on about the Dogme 95 movement. The movement had a lot of rules for how a film was to be made (natural light only, no guns to move the plot forward etc.) but the prof pointed out that what was more interesting about these films was they way they selectively chose to break their own rules. I happen to think he’s right, so that’s why it’s fun to do something unexpected from time to time.

3rd, and this has nothing to do with the “rules” but look at that green hair! I’m really proud of that hair. [October 2, 2013]