Sunday, October 19, 2008

TeeHee: Nazis

So remember when I said I was going to make the insinuation that the Dean of Student Affairs might fund Nazi activities? Remember how I was going to try and piss people off?

Well, it sort of worked... sort of.

A few days after it was published, my friend Grant, who is one of the lead editors/managers/ guy who does everything for the paper, was called in for a little chat with the Dean. Yeah sure it was about something else (probably more important, too...damn), but as Grant was getting ready to leave, the Dean stopped him and asked him to explain it to him.

So not only did I get away with making the insinuation, I also made one of my best friends have to explain to the person being made fun of that he might potentially fund European genocide.

Does laughing at that make me a bad person? Probably not.

Also, here is the comic:

Sunday, October 5, 2008

fuck it. I'm going to Asia.

It's been far too long since I last wrote here. And believe me that I have been reminded of this fact several times by the one or two people that read this. But that's in the past and I'm bored, so here goes:

I've taken on the role of "cartoon guy" on Coe's campus, rushing in to fill the void left by my recently (and by that I mean several months ago) graduated friend. It's been my goal to get a cartoon published in every week of the paper, and so far it's been working out. When I first started, I had it in my head that I should avoid pissing anyone off (ie. Student Senate, Republicans, etc.). I thought that it would be better if I could provide laughs for everyone, not just people capable of coherent thought (hiyo!). But as time went on (I lasted all of a week), I found that I wanted more and more to strike a nerve. Thus, things like this came about:

For the Republicans
and taking a shot at Senate.

And while I haven't gotten the outrage that a certain other cartoonist felt last year, I like to tell myself that I've rocked my readers to the core. And as no one has given me too muck flak, the idea for my comic is to insinuate that members of the Third Reich (that is, Nazis) could acquire funds from Coe's Dean of Student Affairs. Needless to say, this isn't true and I'm excited to see what the response will be.

Oh, and in reference to the title: I'm probably going to Asia next semester. To study swordplay. Suck on that.

-TinMan