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I was bored so I put up some of my pictures from last summer. I don’t know much about photography, so whatever.

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Our schoolwork, or at least some of it, will be converted to high quality digital pics, done in a proper lighting environment.

And also I have a scanned version of my skin tone drawing

I already put this on my Myspace, but scince it concerns art I am putting it here also.

Ok listen up if you care whether or not you piss me off. This is why it offends me when people think graphic novels are comic books.

First off it’s not a fucking nerd thing. Tough this could be convoluted because there are “Comic book nerds” out there who just get upset over this because of a title issue. That’s not my beef. It’s not about saying one thing is better than another. It’s about personally disrespecting me and especially the people who create graphic novels as artists.

Calvin and hobs = comic book
Punisher = Graphic novel

Have you ever stop and thought about the words in that title. Just think about the word COMIC. What the fuck is comical about a guy slitting someone’s throat in though process of avenging the murder of his wife and kids?

The point of a comic is delivering a comedic story. The art work only needs to be good enough to communicate the idea of the joke/ comedic story because pretty pictures and cool visuals are not the point.

Graphic novels (particularly 80’s and thereafter) are full on stories, often focused around action. If you really want to draw people into your story, you need to establish an emotional connection to the reader. This is done though well rendered imagery, action, emotion, involved story. If you really want someone to empathize with a character crying what’s more effective, three lines flying out of both eyes of the character, or a fully rendered faces with tears stream down the cheeks? Graphic novels often do have comedy in them, but is mainly to changes the tempo of the mood from the constant fighting, intensity, and political discussion.

This is what offends me so much. It takes so much time effort and skill to create a graphic novel. Just test it out for yourself, just the drawing part. Take a couple of Bill Watterson’s drawings from Calvin and hobs and copy them. Now do the same thing with some Salvador Larroca drawings from X-treme X-men. They are fucking leagues apart. When you call graphic novels comic books, you are saying Calvin and Hobs is the same quality of X-tream X-men. You are insulting the artists and writers that create these works and you are insulting me. I could only one day dream to be as good as an artist as Salvador Larroca.

Yes the company is called Marvel Comics, but that is because almost all of books made up mostly of pictures at the time were Comics. They certainly could use the name Marvel Graphic Novels because they were targeting kids and people take the word graphic as either being pornographic, or graphically violent. And also yes early Spiderman works were borderline comic books. If you want to see the beginning of the Spiderman story with good writing and artwork, than pick up ultimate Spiderman.

I hate myself every time I refer to a graphic novel in a conversation as a comic book, just to avoid explaining what it is and to avoid the ‘oh this guy is a nerd look’. I have to do this so much that I will instinctively say comic book in

Again I don’t dislike comics, I enjoy occasionally reading them.

Let’s refresh:

Dilbert = comic book/ strip meant to give you quick entertainment.
X-men = politically, philosophically, and emotionally deep graphic novel

[“He called X-men deep, pshh” YOU MOTHER FUCKERS! I don’t EVER want to hear you tell me that X-men isn’t politically, philosophically, and emotionally deep until you read some of the new shit! (NOT JUST ONE ISSUE OF ONE STOY YOU DUMBASS!)]