{"id":943,"date":"2011-02-07T23:23:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T23:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/?p=943"},"modified":"2011-02-12T15:08:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T15:08:25","slug":"lovelace-and-babbage-vs-the-organist-epilogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/lovelace-and-babbage-vs-the-organist-epilogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovelace and Babbage Vs The Organist Pt 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, an Amusing Epilogue..<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-963\" title=\"organistepilogue1fix\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/organistepilogue1fix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"1118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/organistepilogue1fix.jpg 550w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/organistepilogue1fix-147x300.jpg 147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-964\" title=\"epiloguepg2fix\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/epiloguepg2fix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/epiloguepg2fix.jpg 550w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/epiloguepg2fix-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/epiloguepg2fix-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-951\" title=\"organistepilogue3\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/organistepilogue3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/organistepilogue3.jpg 550w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/organistepilogue3-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/organistepilogue3-122x150.jpg 122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-952\" title=\"organistepilogue4\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/organistepilogue4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/organistepilogue4.jpg 550w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/organistepilogue4-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/organistepilogue4-92x150.jpg 92w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;EDITED TO ADD:  That&#8217;s Minion, still coping with the monkey aftermath.. come on people, he had a whole panel five months ago!&#8211; also, I usually treat typos with devil-may-care insouciance, but those were BAD, man.  I need sleep.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now that really IS the end!  There aren&#8217;t really any notes for this one, except that John Stuart Mill and Wilkie Collins were amongst the signatories of the petition to regulate street music.  The Musical World weighs in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=E5cPAAAAYAAJ&#038;pg=PA428&#038;dq=Babbage+street+music&#038;lr=&#038;as_drrb_is=b&#038;as_minm_is=0&#038;as_miny_is=1800&#038;as_maxm_is=0&#038;as_maxy_is=1920&#038;as_brr=0&#038;cd=18#v=onepage&#038;q=Babbage%20street%20music&#038;f=false\">But Babbage, Bentinick, and Bass have a special plea; &#8220;the public,&#8221; we are told, &#8220;really want the nuisance to be abated;&#8221; and in proof hereof we are favoured with selected facts.  Sundry eminent individuals, with highly sensitive nervous organisations, are pressed into the witness-box.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*****<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So that&#8217;s The Organist!   Believe it or not it comes in at over 100 pages.. D: !!! and could have easily been much longer.  I confess by the last couple of episodes (I&#8217;m not very happy with those) I was slashing material with abandon&#8230; like the giant dance number!  The Organist&#8217;s big number is mean to be this one, you can imagine the mass-mersmeric-musical-multimedia extravangaza to this irresistible beat:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FcUi6UEQh00\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also sorry that I ran out of energy for the groovy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qf0t4qIVWF4&#038;feature=related\">cymatics<\/a> episode.  And the huge subplot with Lovelace&#8217;s mother, not to mention the stereoscopic sequence!  These are the perils of free-associative storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I&#8217;ve learned many Moral Lessons from The Organist, the main one of which is, <em> Stick to Your Rules!<\/em> I think the last couple of episodes would have been stronger if I&#8217;d been firmer of purpose in keeping to the outline of the story, which (for those of you who made it all the way through my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myplick.com\/view\/92sxy2JTGuo\/GraphicStorytelling\">lecture<\/a>) is based on the Orpheus myth.  I was too lazy to stage my way around the critical point that Lovelace (the Orpheus figure)<em> not look at Babbage<\/em> until the very end of the story.  Partly it&#8217;s just really tricky to stage that sort of thing, and also I didn&#8217;t want to lose the gag, &#8220;You&#8217;ve been reading poetry! I can see it in your eyes!&#8221;  Only now has it struck me how much funnier &#8220;You&#8217;ve been reading poetry!  I can tell from the back of your head!&#8221; is. Anyways it would have really helped keep the tension in the relationship there if I&#8217;d stuck to my guns.<\/p>\n<p>With these melancholy reflections it is a comfort to tell myself that what I&#8217;m doing here is a <em>first draft<\/em> of <em>something<\/em>.  I&#8217;m often asked, in those comments I guiltily stare at and procrastinate on answering, whether I intend to do a book at any point.  I understand that authors become either WEALTHY and CELEBRATED, or STARVE in BOXES, and I&#8217;m much disinclined to the latter.  At some point though I think I&#8217;ll be unable to resist the urge to go back and clean stuff up, though this is probably still a ways away.  I&#8217;m at a point now where I could either make the existing comics fit for human consumption, or Press Onwards, and I&#8217;m in a pressing onwards spirit.<\/p>\n<p>When I started these shenaningans there were really only two stories I had in mind, one was The Organist and the other was Vampire Poets, but that&#8217;s even longer than The Organist if you can imagine such a thing.  We need to regather our energies here at 2dGoggles Emalgamated Comic Industries SO,  I&#8217;m putting Vampire Poets to one side to simmer and the next series is (GOD I HOPE) much shorter and will be in a bit of a different format. It&#8217;s called &#8216;User Experience&#8217; and I&#8217;m pretty excited about it.  BUT what with the Giant Monsters on the rampage and so forth it will take some time before I can get it drawn up.<\/p>\n<p>For the next month or so I&#8217;ll put up some more worky-in-progressy sketches and stuff if you don&#8217;t mind.   I&#8217;d also like to try to stick to a bit more a schedule.  You may think the life of an imaginary comics artist is a sunlit field of lighthearted caperings and irresponsible outbursts of creativity, but actually it&#8217;s riven with constant low-level anxiety.  Any free moment is one in which you really ought to be drawing comics.  It&#8217;s been suggested that I try for shorter, more frequent comics, but that&#8217;s not really how I roll.  However I do have a ton of exploratory material I can put up so I&#8217;m going to aim for some sort of post every other week on Monday, with proper comics posts probably monthly, I don&#8217;t think I can promise anything more frequent than that what with all the giant monster attacks these days.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways I hope you all enjoyed The Organist even if it WAS a bit too long and disorganised!  User Experience takes us more into the Difference Engine and its denizens, same bat-time, same bat-channel, which is to say, sporadically here at 2dgoggles.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Don't edit unless you know what you're doing! --><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ < ![CDATA[\n\/\/ < ![CDATA[\n\/\/ < ![CDATA[\n\/\/ < ![CDATA[\n\/\/ < ![CDATA[\n        $(document).ready(function() {\n             $('#fullcartoon').hide();\n             $('#notes').hide();\n             $('#showfull').click(function() {\n                  $('#fullcartoon').toggle('slow');\n             });\n             $('#shownotes').click(function() {\n                  $('#notes').toggle('slow');\n             });\n        });\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, an Amusing Epilogue.. &#8211;EDITED TO ADD: That&#8217;s Minion, still coping with the monkey aftermath.. come on people, he had a whole panel five months ago!&#8211; also, I usually treat typos with devil-may-care insouciance, but those were BAD, man. 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