Toontown

Now that I am done with astronomy I wanted to share a funny comic my professor showed us. I love how the creator of Calvin and Hobbes uses a child to talk about such complex ideas. I also like how freaked out Calvin seems to get, almost as if he is losing sleep over this concept.

What is better, a comic story or a story written in prose?  For example, Fun Home is a comic, but I think it would be more effective of a story in prose.

Just handed in my final comic!  I hope everyones is going well.  If anyone has an electronic copy it’d be cool to share it on here.  I am interested in what everyone did.

Hey guys, I hope everyone is getting through finals week. Only 2 more days left to go!!

Anyways, this is a comic strip that I found about one of my favorite TV Shows which actually started off as a comic strip.

The story focuses on a grandfather and his 2 grandsons moving from West Side Chicago to a predominately white suburban neighborhood. The main protagonist is the grandson named Huey who is a very cynical person, never smiles and is a revolutionary / has a huge political awareness. His younger brother who is named Riley is very enamored by the “gangster/thug” lifestyle. The grandad disagrees with both of their views and is a WWII veteran and civil rights activist.

The show and comic strips are considered highly controversial because they focus on political commentary and touch upon subjects such as racism and American socio-economic class issues by using dark humor. I really like the ways the characters are drawn, the strip is organized and how each of them represents a different view and how their views constantly clash.

Here some links if you guys wanna check them out.

http://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/1999/09/21

http://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/2002/03/07

http://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/2002/03/10

The Colgate student artist who made two comic books for her senior art thesis was not awarded honors for her project.

Read her extremely powerful words here: https://asiansinsolidarity.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/dear-colgate-art-art-history-department/

I acknowledge the problems with my posting her personal story to this blog– doing so means I am using her painful experience, in part, for my own benefit (my grade). However, she did post this on a public blog and has spread it around Facebook, and I think it is important for arts critics such as ourselves to reflect on experiences like hers.

Hey, what’s the best high school graduation gift you got?  Or, what do you wish you had gotten?

My namesake is graduating from high school in a couple of weeks, in Florida (so don’t say “Canada Goose parka”).  She’s going to the U. of Florida for college, and she’s interested in robotics, but she’s a pretty normal 18-year-old (i.e., not a big honking geek like her godmother or whatever I am).  What can I give her that she just might possibly be really glad to have, besides cash?  (Cash is my fallback option.)  I’m looking to spend no more than $100.

After the recent blog posts I spent time procrastinating looking up comics about finals. The link below is to a comic that describes the steps of an all-nighter, which pretty well described my night last night. Good luck this week everyone.

http://www.collegehumor.com/post/6668902/the-8-stages-of-staying-up-all-night/page:2

This is how I feel right now in this time leading up to finals. I have work to do and I have more than enough time to do it, but I procrastinate. I can never get myself to just start my work.

I really wanted to find a funny comic about finals but I couldn’t and started getting really annoyed so gave up. If someone finds a funny comic about finals please post it. I feel like there’s always so many stupid memes about finals on Facebook but I really want to find a real comic or comic strip about the stress/horrific feelings during finals.

This is a question for Professor Worley, but I’d like to hear the rest of the class’s input as well. I have noticed that almost every time we draw ourselves at the start of class, Professor Worley says something along the lines of “draw your frame, or else it won’t be a comic.” And I noticed there was a frame around the door sign you drew yesterday as well.

Are frames around panels necessary for comics? Below is a comic that includes no frames, yet I think I would still consider it to be a comic. Are frames necessary when it’s particularly only one panel? Political cartoons come to mind to me as not always including a frame. I’m curious, then, to know your thoughts on frames and how they fit into your definition of a comic.

Found this comic on a vile FB thread today. Would love to share for thoughts.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

If you see this post then comment the first thing that comes to your mind.

Here is an article saying how Trump is using comedian-like and comic-like rhetoric that gets so many people to support him.

http://www.npr.org/2017/01/19/510628831/comic-hero-why-donald-trumps-candid-rhetoric-resonates-with-supporters

Meet These Brilliant People of Color Changing The Face of Comics

What do you think is more of an effective presentation of stories, T.V. shows/cartoons or comics?  This is a difficult question to specify because they both do very different things, so here are some examples and my answers.

X-men comics to the X-men movies (this works for any superhero to movie transition)…I think the comics are much better because they have a much deeper history and you can portray powers and abilities better in picture and prose than you can in visual.  I think the movies are fun but they suck at making good story-lines and none of the good guys ever die.

Attack on Titan comic to the show…I just found Attack on Titan on netflix in the past two weeks and like it a lot.  I decided to explore where it came from.  Among finding out all the secrets of the show, I also found the comic and I think the show is much better.  I didn’t get the true experience because it was an online version of the comic, but the show does a great job of portraying the cool transformations and storyline.

Does anyone else have examples?  I am interested in hearing what you all think.

I’m interested in hearing all of your thoughts on the discussion. Also, shout out to Angie for delivering under pressure! With that being said I would like to retract my comment from class on not liking the page that almost looks like a cover. His point of trying to differentiate her from other superheros was fascinating.

this is student art that is hanging outside of the Ed. Studies offices, and the way it’s displayed reminded me of comics. It probably wasn’t intended to be a comic, but it could be read that way. The different colored backgrounds reminded me of Kirsta’s comics in particular.

Captions:

“They’re not sending their best”

“Go back to your country!”

“Omg my nanny was mexican!”

“Immigrants are stealing our jobs”

“Your english is sooo good”

“They’re gonna bring Sharia law with them”

I think the style of this comic it’s so intriguing. The black background and the way the panels look like broken glass (I think?) give it a dark vibe. What do you guys think about this comic? Also, do yall think the blur effect is effective? While it looks awesome I had trouble making out what was going on at first.

I think the comics of this artist could have appeared on the blog before and the character is quite recognisable. From the middle to the end the artist stopped using the text (except for the marker of place – bookstore) and focused on conveying the main idea by means of visuals only. I guess that this switch from the-text-and-visuals to the-visuals-only was one of the reasons why I laughed so much when I saw this. Or maybe it is just really close to my priorities in spending.

I have always been into comics, but I have been somewhat close-minded about the ones to read.  So, I wanted to ask everyone what your favorite comic book or comic series is?  Mine is the Asterix and Obelix series.  My dad grew up with them and it’s a goofy comic.  Of course Spider-man is my go to for the super hero comics.

Hello everyone.  Just wanted to remind everyone to post on the blog.  10% of our grade is the blog, so if you hastily post everyday thats an easy letter grade up!

Sorry I know I always post dumb comics about the weather but the weather seriously effects my mood so just deal with it. I found this and thought it was funny just because I think it’s so true… Not that the sun thinks I’m beautiful but that when the sun is out I feel a lot better/happier/prettier.

I just got back from checking out the senior studio art projects at Clifford Gallery in Little Hall. First, everyone should go. There’s some really powerful installations and it’s amazing to see the work that other Colgate students are doing. Second, three of the installations are comic related, and they’re really, really good. Angel Trazo (in the bottom right of the first picture) made two full comic books for her project, and Daniel Berry tracked their studio art seminar in comic-y/sketch form in addition to making a sculpture (last picture).

Angel’s first comic:

Angel’s second comic:

Daniel’s sketches:

My roommate does bystander intervention trainings on campus, and she brought a comic book home last night that I guess they use to train new facilitators. It’s both instructional and a social commentary. The way the larger word balloons are drawn– separated from the frame of the panel and sort of part of the gutter– is something I’ve never seen before.

I came across these drawings online recently. They are by Lynda Barry, former “Living Writer” and author of What It Is. I don’t know that they count as a comic, because they were originally posted as separate images on Barry’s Tumblr (and not as one large image made up of panels). So that’s one discussion question. But I generally thought they were a nice example of visual metaphor.

Saw this and had to share after our conversations about comic sans…

Could anyone possibly tell me the assignment due for class tomorrow? I was unable to attend class on Thursday and would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!