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More insanity from my Cartooning Studio class. Each student in the class was assigned a collection of comic strips by an established cartoonist, and by the next week we had to turn in a series of autobiographical strips that mimic the style and working methods of the assigned cartoonist.
When a copy of Calvin & Hobbes: Revenge of the Baby-Sat was plopped down on my desk, my first thought was “All right! I love Calvin and Hobbes!” But when it came time to actually draw the strip, I quickly realized how difficult this assignment would be. Not only is Watterson’s strip so loved by everyone (especially at CCS), but the characters are so connected to the strip that it seemed impossible not to include them.
After much soul searching, I decided to have me appear as an incidental character in a kind of fan-fic version of the strip. You know, rather than having the comic be about me making a teleporter out of a cardboard box with the help of my stuffed ocelot.
This ends up being kind of weird because Calvin almost never directly interacts with other boys his age (Moe doesn’t count because he’s just a bully). There is something really off about this, but at least the Sunday strip gives me room to philosophize my self-doubt.
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We covered gags cartoons in Cartooning Studio a couple of weeks ago, and the homework assignment asked for three different kinds of gags:
1) Gags about White River Junction – I found these to be the most difficult. WRJ is a funny town, but to convey everything in a single panel in a way that will make sense to someone who has never been here, and still be funny, is damn near impossible (for me anyway). Unfortunately, these cartoons ended up being more like in-jokes, and so they are explained below.
There is a group of moderately creepy people in WRJ that convene in various public places. Most CCSers refer to them as The Lawnchair Brigade.
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One of Steve Bissette’s recent drawing classes covered the basic process of brainstorming. Our in-class assignment had us break into groups and create a Weekly World News covers in a short period of time.
The marvelous fruits of our labour can be viewed below. I’m happy to say that the phrase ’saintly cephalopod’ is mine.
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