Character Voices

Whenever I read comics, I always enjoy making character voices of each character in my head. My favorite print comic has been Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley and ever since I can remember, I gave a two-bit gangster voice to the cat, Bucky and a very slow, well-mannered voice to the dog Satchel. The thing is that the way the two characters were drawn definitely inspired the tones of voices I gave the characters.

I was streaming comics and there were videos where fans read out comics in their own character voices, and it turned out that somewhere out there, another Get Fuzzy fan gave similar voices to Satchel and Bucky to the ones I had in my head.

It is amazing how an artist was able to draw character designs that gave off the appearance of having unique voices without even having a cartoon. I found this type of character design to be a great skill set that says more about the ability to draw facial expressions that translate to a character voice.

Do your characters have a unique voice that you have in mind? Has anyone ever read pages of your comic using voices that were very different to the ones in your head?

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