The Look

by Daniele Rossi | Jul 30, 2024 | Comics

A comic strip in 12 panels. Franky Banky starts by stuttering, A strange phennnnomenon happens when a flu flu fluent person talks to to to someone who stutters for the first time. He continues in the following panel, And that phennnnnomenon is ca ca called the look. In the third panel, he points to a nearby woman and says, allow me to dem dem demonstrate. In the fourth panel, he says to the woman, excuse me, mmmmmmadame. Yes, she replies. In the fifth panel he replies, do do do do you haaaaaave the ttttt. To which the woman gives him an exaggerated inquisitive look. Her faces is frozen in the following panel as Franky Banky explains to the reader, No no note how my subject ha ha has an inquisitive and perplexed look all over her efface. He continues in the following panel, that, my fiends, is the look. In the next panel he says, and there can be any nnnnumber of re reasons behind the look. One, she doesn't know what stuttering is. Never saw The King's Speech. Two, she watches too many hospital dramas and wonders if she should call emergency. Three, it's got nothing to do with your speech. She just realized she forgot to shower all week. In the final panel, Franky Banky is holding his nose and exclaiming as he hands her a deodorant stick, Pee you! Use ssssome deodourant, madame! With her arms outreached she cried, Quick! Quick!

Author’s commentary

The look. The infamous inquisitive look of puzzlement that sceeams out what-the-heck-is-wrong-with-this-person during our vulnerable moment of stuttering. We’ve all received it numerous of times and it’s never, ever pleasant. That is why we still need stuttering awareness. Hopefully this comic spread it a little more.

July 30, 2024

An illustration of the author standing next to a pile of sketchbooks. Franky Banky is sitting on top reading one of the books. Ti-Ger is sneaking around the bottom.