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Did a college presentation about comics

 
 
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21:34 / 03.05.03
For my writing class this semester everyone had to bring in a type of art/media (besides books) that inspire us. So when my turn came up I did a presentation on Vertigo comics, namely, on the titles "The Invisibles", "The Sandman", and "Transmetropolitan" (which, besides "The Filth", are the only comics I've ever really read).

I think the presentation went over pretty well, despite the fact I probably came across as a fawning fanboy. The professor commented that comics sure had changed since her day when she was flipping through Invisibles "Counting Down to None" and she came across the cover of the Harlequinade on the toilet.
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
22:00 / 03.05.03
heh, cool deal
i had a cs class and i had to make a powerpoint presentation and did it on the invisibles, it went over pretty well.
 
 
The Natural Way
10:44 / 04.05.03
Yeah, I did one once, but I was shocked by my teacher's unfamiliarity with the medium. Horrible! We did turn my GCSE eglish teach onto Watchmen, though. He loved it.

Things didn't get much better until Uni, when I discovered all my groovy film tutors knew and loved comics. One of them, it turned out, was a comics journo in his spare time. I think visual mediums attract younger, hipper crowds.
 
 
Gary Lactus
12:33 / 04.05.03
I probably did a presentation on comics once every year and a half throughout my education carreer, from about eight years old. One tutor (at A Level)lent me Chester Brown's Ed The Happy Clown. Another (During my degree) reduced my points into a feminist debate (as she did with most subjects). When I later handed in my essay I made sure I included a Robert Crumb image of him sat on top of a pile of women with his cock stuffed in one of their mouths - truly horrific! Sypha, I always felt like a fawning fanboy. Much as I can intellectually justify comics as an art form, when I'm standing infront of a bunch of people who don't get it I am acutely aware of to what extent my passion is fuelled by obsession.
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
14:45 / 04.05.03
a couple of years ago, we insisted our architecture students buy and read a book recommended by their tutors, for general background discussion as a foil for their design work.

I said, 'jimmy Corrigan you twats'

and took them dahn FP who had ordered twenny copies for us, then doled them out one by one and off they went in the rain, down Buchanan street, to the buses and trains that would take them back to east kilbride, irvine, clydebank, dumbarton and greenock.

and their bedrooms.

and the smartest kid on earth!

ha ha poor sunts.

it's only local kids at mah uni, by the way.
 
  
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