Cliché’s are hackneyed, trite expressions that have stood the test of time. That’s got to tell you something. They’re a shortcut to thinking and expression…an easy way to say something that’s easily understood. Never mind that a lot of them don’t make a damn bit of sense; people think they understand them. For example, just [...]
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We can all learn when we study the masters and comic strip artists are masters of the visual and intellectual art of humor. They know how to make people smile, chuckle or laugh– and they do it every day. Those who think comics are for kids should take a closer look. They’ll find brilliant examples [...]
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Sometimes we weaken the punch of a funny piece by telling our reader too much too soon. True, you have to grab readers early to keep them reading; but we’re not writing a newspaper story in the inverted pyramid style. A reporter tries to summarize his whole story in the lead (sometimes a ridiculously long [...]
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If you didn’t have a funny bone in your whole carcass, learning to write humor would be an impossibly steep learning curve; but I think everybody has a sense of humor and the potential to produce material that makes us giggle, guffaw, or groan. We are each our own editor of what we think is [...]
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