{"id":815,"date":"2012-01-03T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T06:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/?p=815"},"modified":"2012-01-02T22:46:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T03:46:48","slug":"goldilocks-or-alice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/goldilocks-or-alice\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldilocks or Alice?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As all my loyal readers know, in my comic strip Goldilocks is the second most popular girl in school after Rapunzel.\u00a0 But when Goldilocks first appeared in Suburban Fairy Tales <\/em>back in March 2009, she was actually supposed to be Alice from Alice in Wonderland<\/em>.\u00a0 Crazy, huh?<\/p>\n

\"Goldilocks<\/a>As you can see from this first picture,\u00a0 I originally drew “Goldilocks” with straight hair, not the curly “locks” that she has always been depicted with in the original fairy tales.\u00a0 Why did I design her this way?\u00a0 Well, that’s because she was Alice!\u00a0 It wasn’t until I was cleaning up in the artwork from her first appearance in Photoshop that I realized Alice just wouldn’t be a good sidekick for Rapunzel.\u00a0 I needed a fairy tale character who was more self-centered and snobby.\u00a0 Then I thought about Goldilocks and the Three Bears<\/em>.\u00a0 In the original fairy tale, Goldilocks apparently had no qualms about breaking into the three bears’ house, sleeping in their beds and eating their food.\u00a0 A character as self-centered as THAT would definitely be a much better sidekick than Alice.\u00a0 So in Photoshop I changed all references of her as “Alice” and made them “Goldilocks.”<\/p>\n

The only pro\"Goldilocks<\/a>blem with the quick name change was that it was too late to change the artwork. Suburban Fairy Tales’<\/em> Goldilocks didn’t really look anything like classic Goldilocks and that kind of annoyed me.\u00a0 So with each subsequent appearance I gradually gave her longer hair and “curled” it to give her the appearance of having “golden locks.”\u00a0 This second image of her was from her latest appearance in December 2011.\u00a0 I’m much happier with my new Goldilocks’ character design.<\/p>\n

So why does any of this matter?\u00a0 Well I wanted to use this as an example to show that I’m not above making corrections to my strip.\u00a0 Sometimes I look back at my work and think about how I should have done things differently.\u00a0 One good example of this is coming up in a future storyline.\u00a0 I don’t like my Prince Charming — I don’t like this personality or his character design.\u00a0 So I’m going to introduce another Prince Charming.\u00a0 Oh, don’t worry, there will be an explanation… but I don’t plan on spoiling it here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As all my loyal readers know, in my comic strip Goldilocks is the second most popular girl in school after Rapunzel.\u00a0 But when Goldilocks first appeared in Suburban Fairy Tales back in March 2009, she was actually supposed to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-blog","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-francisbonnet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ZZIB-d9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisbonnet.com\/archive\/sft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}