Seriously:

[rainy_day_woman]

So, yes

Comments

[belle_malheur]

i'd be your friend and "study" with you if i were in mn.

I'm a high school Dude:

[rainy_day_woman]

score.

Re: I'm a high school Dude:

[belle_malheur]

last week sara waalkes handed me a book and said "read this" and so i am. it's called "fun home" by alison bechdel. so far it's pretty damn funny.

i miss me some morgan (and jay) love...i might have to rethink u of mn as a grad option....

[williamtaft]

No offense, but do you know enough about graphic novels and comics to teach a class on it? I worry your scope of knowledge on this, if it's limited to those titles, might leave you with students (like Devon, for instance) who know much more about the subject than you do.

[rainy_day_woman]

Yeah, clearly I'm not an authority on the subject. But I do have the peculiar position of being able to draw a paycheck because I can write a good class proposal rather than doing other things, such as waitressing. So it's good that I have until May to research, etc.

[mari_mari]

I have to disagree on some points here. While I have always felt that I get more out of a literature class where I am allowed to interpret as I please, I would prefer the professor to have at least a cursory knowledge of what's being taught. There is a difference between being open with interpretations and just winging it

[turtlefetiche]

Another question -

I'm only allowed to teach one main text and then a few small texts. This is because the class is still a writing class with the text as something auxilliary to the act of writing.

Anyway, my question is how you are going to teach Jimmy Corrigan with no page numbers...

Or am I not finding them? I'm reading it right now to keep me from killing something.

[turtlefetiche]

Oh and a bunch of my friends just saw Art Spigelman talk at the Watson Conference. I wanted to go, I should have. Had someone told me he, and not those fake intellectuals, would be there, I would have.

Damn.

Okay, done flooding your page.

[rainy_day_woman]

gar...that would be excellent to see. But snot people ruin it, don't they? The people who are fake-intellectual always crowd the interesting person and ask fake-intellectual questions and make me jealous of their interaction.

Maybe I am just jealous.

I am not sure how I'm going to work Jimmy Corrigan. I'm going to just assign a section, because it is so long and this class is so compressed. And I think I'm going to just describe sections--OH OH! I just figured things out. I'm going to tell them to read from this (insert photocopied page of starting text) and end with this (insert photocopied page of ending text).

Christ, now I have a lot to think about. Thanks, Megan.

[turtlefetiche]

Ooo, that's a good idea.

I'm going to be making PDF files of other comics for them to read - if all goes according to plan.

I like to keep you on your toes.

[thehipeinie]

hi morgan. will you email me your assignments so i can pretend to take your class?

[rainy_day_woman]

I MISS YOU! I was looking at your Facebook pictures last night, because I am lame and was avoiding going to bed. !

[thehipeinie]

were you tracking my every move via the facebook stalker feature?

ALSO i'd like to know what your halloween costume is going to be, because i'm sure it will warm my heart.

[rainy_day_woman]

Yes, yes I was. I was looking at this wedding? And I never knew how much you looked like your brother! And WHO is JEN/JENN/JENNY?

I may have talked about this costume for 3 years, and it may or may not happen this year, and this is what I'm thinking:

Dead Kennedy:

-tight punk black pants with safety pins;
-converse sneakers? or other such punk shoes;
-suit jacket;
-tie;
-white button down shirt ripped halfway down showing black punk tee shirt;
-bullet hole in forehead.

Possible props:

-Dead Kennedeys For President(s) flyers.

I don't know if it'll work. We'll see.

What are you doing, Amelie?

[kangaroo]

I've been hearing a lot about Blankets by Craig Thompson. But otherwise I don't know about graphic novels. Sounds great!

[rainy_day_woman]

Yeah--I have heard a lot about Blankets, too, but haven't read it. I did consider looking into it for this class....