Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Average

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Really, I should just let me students write this comic.

But then they might want royalties.

I was tempted to add an extra beat panel between panels five and six and making it an eight-panel comic but then I'd need to finish with a snappy, sarcastic thought bubble, which might be inappropriate if I'm admitting that this situation actually happened nearly verbatim in class. I think nothing but the best of my students, particularly in public.




Monday, April 22, 2013

Captain De Morgan

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And if it's NOT (Spiced OR Rum) Then why are we even talking about it?

Previous age-inappropriate material.




Friday, April 19, 2013

+ 1 (Plus One)

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And if you like this strip give it a +1, like I gave Vaughn (not his real name).




Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Tautologies

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Because it's got to be carefully taut -- like the highwire you walk when you want to keep sarcastic responses out of your teaching (and then put them into comics instead).




Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Why I Procrastinate

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Ironically, this comic was supposed to be posted yesterday, but I wasn't up to it.




Monday, April 08, 2013

"For Your Island" (Proud Dad Moment)

The show my daughter produced airs at 4:00. Tune in! She writes:

The second episode of FYI is on Monday at 4 pm. It will stream live on htvilive.com, so please tune in!

I produced this show, so it would really mean a lot to me if you watch!!

FYI Spring 2013 Show 2 Promo
Check out a sneak peak of this week's episode.

Watch FYI Monday at 4pm on www.foryourisland.com!

As always, ratings are important, so please tune in, especially if your a Long Island, NY resident because the show is for you most of all.

Sunday, April 07, 2013

Music-Themed Comics

I wanted to make a list of five or ten of my favorite (x, why?) comics which were music-inspired. Then I discovered that I only started using the Music tag in 2011. That means that nearly four years of comics were left "unsung". (Ouch! Yes, I meant to do that.)

So I only had 9 such comics labeled, and many more that I remember were not. The problem is that there are some that I don't remember. Not surprising that I've reused some gags because I've forgotten that I'd done them before. Others I remember making, but I don't remember when I made them.

Slowly, I'm going through the archives. I'm up to 20 Music comics.

Which one is your favorite? And is it tagged?

Thursday, April 04, 2013

Film Critic Roger Ebert Passes Away

Film critic Roger Ebert passed away. Obituaries are all over the Web, so I'll stick to a couple of brief anecdotes.

First, there was a time when I would check what thought about a new film and act accordingly. That is, do the opposite, which actually worked out more than it didn't. That wasn't just film; lots of critics hated the "popular" stuff.

Ebert was also indirectly responsible for me getting two columns published in the New York Daily News. Back in the late 80s/early 90s, the News had a Counterpunch (Talk Back to the Critics) column in the Sunday paper. Two of the columns I had published were rebuttals to his columns. (The News carried him for a time.) One took him to task for a non-review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the other was a defense of Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, in which Ebert found overt racial overtones, or some such nonsense.

In closing, I'm sure I preferred Ebert's TV show with Gene Siskel over individual columns. I enjoyed the clips back in the days when that was the only place you could find them, and you had two points of view to compare and contrast. And now both of them are gone.

Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Inappropriate Material

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When you know your audience, play the crowd. When you don't, play the odds.
Outside of the classroom, of course.