This strip was originally posted on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world. That post involved the original in “four panels in a horizontal row” format as found on the internet, but it had several problems.
- first there was a spelling mistake where it said “…sad an negative” instead of “…and…”. Not a big deal tho, maybe it was just an abbreviation like “dunno”?
- that font makes a “G” look like a “6” or a “b”. I guess the word still makes sense in context, but it’s kind of annoying. Looking at it a bit closer, I’m pretty sure it’s a computer font rather than hand-lettered. So I edited all the "G"s to look like "G"s. and since it wasn’t hand-lettered and thus more likely a hastily-executed translation by a fan or underpaid assistant, I also changed “an” to say “and”. (I should say that the translation was well-done in terms of the words chosen tho; much better than in “Another Top”)
- the strip is in traditional “four panels in a horizontal row” format. maybe this looks great in newspapers I dunno but it’s kinda hard to read online. The “Another Top” post re-framed this to “four panels in a vertical column” which looks gorgeous on a phone but has problems of its own on a computer. I think I understand now why so many web comics use the “four panels in a square” format, it seems like a nice compromise. In fact, if you look at the “nemi.no” URL, it forwards you to a facebook page where a couple strips have been rather sloppily cut into a square format. I’m not hating on whoever did the quick chop job, maybe they were fans or maybe the artist doing it herself in her spare time. But I think this strip deserves a better presentation, which is why I reformatted it thus.
- the background is also made black, bc the white background just looks weird on a “dark theme” computer. Plus, it’s a cartoon about dark culture, lel. The trade-off is that if anyone wants to print out the strip, now they gotta print a lot of black ink. But I’m not sure… do people still print out cartoons these days?
- Added the name of the strip and artist. I think the artist deserves a much higher profile in the US than she currently has. The line art of the goths in panels 2 and 3 is masterful, and the background goths in panels 1 and 4 show a perfect balance of minimalism and detail. Tellingly, the non-goths all look like caricatures of actual people rather than just generic cartoon characters. Importantly, this particular strip isn’t just going for a gag, it also aims to expess a truth about “dark culture” and its relationship to the world. Anyway I think the name of the cartoon and its artist deserves to be prominently placed on the image; this isn’t usually done on the images floating around the internet. (they often have the “nemi.no” url, but this forwards to a facebook page which doesn’t even mention the artist, and which only shows 2-3 entries before refusing to do any more unless you make a facebook account.)
Anyway, this was a great educational experience, it’s really instructive to interact with media in this way.
Nemi is a character from Norway by Lise Myhre. The strip is written in Norwegian but for a while it was translated and ran in England. The character is into metal, industrial, goth, and “dark culture” in general. For more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemi_(comic_strip)
If bats weren’t rodents, Germans wouldn’t call them fluttermice
Turtles are shield toads, raccoons are wash bears…the Germans call things a lot of things.
None of these are wrong
No, just kind of lazy.
Ain’t nobody got time to make up special bullshit names for everything
There’s probably a very long German word made up of other words for that.
How about “Worterfindungszeitmangel”?
And the french that call them chauve-souris, which translates to bald-rat.
Bald mice, rat is rat
Ok, didnt know, tks
but the comic is Norwegian, thus “flaggermus”
Appart from the fact that they are not in fact roddents, both the german and norwegian names already make more sense than french. We call them “chauve-souris”, so literally “bald mice”.
That’s a substantially better name
Personally, I like making up new names better than mashing together old names for new things.
Same, but fluttermice is too adorable
Sure, they look like rodents, but they’re more closely related to hedgehogs (also not rodents) believe it or not.
And if you go back to find the most recent common ancestor of bats and rodents, you’ll end up including things as diverse as humans and tigers as being “the same” as well.
Hedgehogs look like they are wearing a wingsuit so that checks out.
I prefer to think of them as (F)Leather mice.