Comments on: What Writing A Continuity Strip Looks Like

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Fri, 29 May 2009 14:46:39 +0000

[...] | Margaret Shulock walks through her process for writing the Apartment 3-G comic strip. [Six Chix, via Mike [...]

By: Margaret

Margaret — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:43:03 +0000

Hi Magada, I visited your blog and I love it. I’m glad you linked and happy that you liked the taser lady. I thought we all needed a laugh; things had been a bit dark at 3-G. I have you bookmarked.

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Fri, 29 May 2009 07:20:35 +0000

[...] [Commentary] What writing a continuity strip looks like Link: Margaret Shulock [...]

By: Magada57

Magada57 — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:13:13 +0000

I’ve always been interested in how a strip gets pulled together when multiple people are involved, thanks for the insight. I unironically love serial comic strips, Apartment 3-G being my favorite. I was a kid in the nineties, and the A3G artist back then had a much more severe style than Mr. Bolle… Margo in particular looked very intimidating. I think I like Mr. Bolle’s gentler style better. And the head bobbles, I really can’t get enough of them.

I follow Apartment 3-G daily in my blog, The Lovely Ladies of Apartment 3-G (http://ladiesofapartment3g.blogspot.com). I hope you don’t find it too rude; I really made the blog out of love. For example, Mrs. Bloom with the taser? That was just such a wonderful moment.

I hope you don’t mind if I link to this post on the blog?

By: How to write a continuity strip | The Daily Cartoonist

How to write a continuity strip | The Daily Cartoonist — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:04:26 +0000

[...] Shulock, one of the Six Chix cartoonist, has written about her experience writing a continuity strip, in this case Apartment 3-G that she wrote for three years ago. So how do you write a strip that [...]

By: kas300@aol.com

kas300@aol.com — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:45:52 +0000

Byron Frost, Byron Frost, Byron Frost!!!!!!
Phred, you rock! Thanks for digging out a truly deeply-imbedded memory…

By: Margaret

Margaret — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:54:19 +0000

Hi Phred, Sounds like Margo has had a long history of stealing Lu Ann’s boyfriends.I’m impressed that you remember her boss’s name! Any more memories of Margo?

By: Phred22

Phred22 — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:25:06 +0000

I’m old enough to remember A3G in the 60s. Would you believe Margo was only a secretary then, occasionally helping her handsome boss, Byron Frost, fend off intriguers in the big cutthroat corporation where they worked? Well suited to this atmosphere, Margo was something of the ‘bad girl’ of the three roommates, once even attempting to steal LuAnn’s latest guy from her. But she had fewer romances then than Tommie.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:54:16 +0000

Hi Jimmy Boi, I know Frank drew Winnie for an quite a while but I’m not sure if that includes the 70s? He always speaks of Winnie very fondly; I think she was one of his favorites.
Thanks for the tip, John. In some ways I feel I’ve probably gleaned enough information. At some point I had to decide to make it mine.But it’s good to know that the history survives on microfiche!

By: John Small Berries

John Small Berries — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:21:26 +0000

Margaret, if you’re looking for A3G history… a friend of mine worked for a company which put all the archives of certain King Features strips onto microfilm/microfiche (she mentioned Blondie specifically, but there were others as well).

Since you’re the writer for the strip, maybe King would loan you a copy of the A3G archives?