daynah's Blog

I found a website a while back (and it’s far too early for me to pull it up again) that included college syllabi for classes about comic books. History, “as literature,” art classes, ect. ...

I’d like to present this to my college, but I’d need some other students to back me up. Now there are tons of students in my college (and I mean college like just the Humanities College) that would take this class. I avoid them as they walk past smelling up the hall. And I sceam, “Hey, Fatman!” at them with bits of cookie falling out of my mouth.

I just need to get a hold of these people. No… no, that’s not what I’m trying to say. They’ll talk to me. I’m a girl that knows Batman’s butler’s name.

If I say much more that that, though, I may shock and awe them into speechlessness and that doesn’t do me much good.

And if, if, I do all of that right… a good percentage of them are going to be lazy ass geeks who are going to flake out on me and wont show up for the proposal and it’ll be me and one wimpy litte puppy dog who prays that maybe I’ll smile at him.

I honestly think this is important. This is America’s art medium.* It has historically been difficult to accept a new writing style and in the grand scheme of things, the “comic book” is new (though the things that make it up are very, very old).

• Don’t gimmie that crap about anime and French comics. If you’re under the delusion that America didn’t make comics what it is today, then keep smokin pot in that other country with Alan Moore.