![]() ![]() Next week: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. All I know is that this book has touched so many. Her stories are so relatable about anxiety, about a kid who doesn’t fit in, about being a human being who deals with an all-encompassing depression. She writes chapters of loosely interlocking stories that are illustrated in whatever way she sees fit from panels, to pages, to half pages all done painstakingly carefully and simultaneously scribbly on her tablet. If you’re just getting into this world, Brosh’s work is fun because it’s super non-traditional (you rebel, you!). This is the relationship that makes graphic work so astounding: TIME / IMAGE / WORD. With graphic memoir, a triangle presents itself: the image, word, and the time that exists within that one panel. But for the most part, there’s a human being sitting down (standing, walking, whatever) and putting words in order for a good reason. Sure, there are works of art in the literary world - simply stunning entities that defy decoding, etc. A lot of studying writing is narrowing the gap between yourself and the stuff you admire in the world. When you study in order to craft your own work in a particular genre, you appreciate every single inch of the tools they are using. When you read as a reader, you’re so easily dumbfounded and perplexed as to how someone had the ability to make something like THAT BEAUTIFUL. There’s an amazing thing that happens when reading in order to write and I adore this stage the most when I mentor (and when I experience it as a writer). If you have been living under that rock, please do read her book. ![]() We spent the first two weeks of the semester thinking, discussing, and reading memoir essays by some masters of the genre (Mary Karr, Cheryl Strayed, etc.) and now we are jumping, head-first, into the wild world of graphic memoir. She is one of the best, and my students always connect with her work. This week, (OMG it’s week 3 of the semester!) and we are finally diving into Hyperbole and a Half by the wonderful Allie Brosh. I’m happy to share the course syllabi and materials if you reach out. ![]() So, hello world, this is what I’m up to this semester. I spent a long time curating the materials, readings, and assignments - and for the past couple years students have been making stunning work. It centers on writing the graphic memoir and I LOVE THIS CLASS SO MUCH and I want to share it with the world. The beer snake was a staple Continue reading Will. UPDATED BLOG The XFL is back Will the beer snake return I hope so. Email Address: Im a (tH)Inker Join 5,275 other subscribers Do Not Sell or Share My Personal. I decided to do a weekly post about my current course at CU called Ink Slingers & Wordsmiths. Become a (tH)Inker Follow (tH)InkSlinger, receive email notifications on the latest posts, and (tH)Ink for yourself. ![]()
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