Needs Help: Overly Long Scream

The current image is a good, humorous illustration with one fatal flaw: It's a full comic strip. And, unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any easy way to just trim out a panel or two.

A quick check of the examples turned up this. It has enough panels that we might be able to work it into something usable, unlike the current.

edited 19th Feb '15 4:15:19 PM by MrL1193

Possibility... Let's look around.

Shouldnt we pull the current anyway for being the full strip?

Zapped.

If burps also count, we could perhaps use the last three panels of this Garfield strip:

http://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2015/01/04

Or we may be able to extract a few panels from this one:

http://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1992/12/20

Remind me what's wrong with using a full comic strip?

Using the whole thing is way too much copyright wise.

I went over the example list, but I didn't find any non-scream variants (though I can think of a couple myself). It makes me wonder if that's something that should be covered by a trope, but I guess that's a discussion for another time.

The second strip is the same one I linked to in the OP, isn't it? Perhaps I should have made the pothole bigger...

edited 20th Feb '15 1:26:11 PM by MrL1193

"In United States copyright law, fair use is a doctrine that permits limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders."

An important aspect of Fair Use is only using a portion of the original work. A frame from even a short video is a tiny portion. A frame from a book is still pretty small. An entire comic is not a "portion" at all.

Administrivia.About Images And Copyright

edited 20th Feb '15 2:56:01 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Garfield comic from OP trimmed to three panels:

BTW, would this be a bad time to mention minor annoyance at not being able to just submit the image as-is through the uploader? It seems you have to crop the image - like, even if you don't crop the image, it'll still tell it to execute the crop command (ineffectually, in that case, since you're not trimming anything off), and upload the result of that. Case in point, the image here is 111KB, while the image I'd uploaded was 96KB. Seems wasteful.

edited 23rd Feb '15 1:28:21 PM by ShadowHog

Not at all. I mentioned something similar in an "Image Uploader bugs and requests" thread, but not the file size change, if you want to add that.

I like the image, though. Surely Jon could tighten the cord somewhere to reach the outlet. Garfield isn't funny.

edited 23rd Feb '15 10:50:29 PM by rodneyAnonymous

When the window pops up just ignore it and click 'submit cropped image' behind it and it uploads the whole thing.

It saves a new copy of the image even if you don't touch the crop handles.

edited 23rd Feb '15 10:55:21 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Exactly what I did, and the end result is exactly what and I described. It "crops" the image regardless, resulting in an image with a larger filesize despite no change actually being done to the image. It's wasteful.

So, anyway, 10 is

edited 25th Feb '15 1:13:26 AM by AnotherDuck

10 works for me. Possibly "For want of an extension cord, Jon's vocal cords were lost." for a caption...

edited 24th Feb '15 8:22:48 PM by Willbyr

I like both the image and the suggested caption.

I was going to suggest using the third panel instead of the second to show the light strings in the yard, but I guess that would make arranging the panels too difficult. 10 looks fine, and I like Willbyr's proposed caption.

Bump; anyone else for 10? My caption suggestion?

Both are OK.

Re-bump; one or two more votes for 10 and we can run with it.

10 works

Good enough; it's up, potholed, and tagged.

EDIT: Looks like we've got enough votes for my caption suggestion as well, so it's in and tagged as well. Locking up.

edited 7th Apr '15 7:46:37 AM by Willbyr