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Some Restrictions
Journalism includes 'funny business'
By Doug Nash
The stereotypical journalism course may not
be overwhelmingly appealing to the elective
hungry student Perhaps the most common image
is that of sweating students frantically struggling
with battered typewriters to meet classroom
deadlines.
Those images don't hold true in "Caricature
and Graphic Humor ” Students in that class are in
the funny business — they study cartoons
‘ It’s really an art appreciation course," says
Professor Roy Paul Nelson, a former editorial
cartoonist for the Eugene Register-Guard and
author of three cartooning books. "My goal is not
to make cartoonists out of them but to get them to
understand the uses of art in the news media .”
Nelson’s course originally appeared in the
late 50s under the title "Editorial-Cartooning," to
emphasize the "serious phase of the art.” The
course has since branched out into gag cartoons,
comic strips, book illustrations, advertising and
greeting cards.
Expanding the topics covered in the class
has drawn more students as well.
" Earlier we were lucky to get a dozen
students in the class,” Nelson says About 55 or
60 people are in the class now While most of
them are journalism majors, they have varied
reasons for enrollment.
"I haven’t done any drawing since grade
school,” admits journalism graduate student
Dean Baker, who intends to use what he learns in
the class for the Skinner City Weekly, his newly
formed public newsletter
"I plan to make a living doing illustrative
work,” explains senior art major Betsy Charlton
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Cartoon by Brian Hahn
Top: a gag cartoon by a current cartoon student. Above: a caricature of Professor
Nelson by a former student
Cartoon by Ragnar Askeland
"Aside from the drawing portion of the class,
we've developed a good background in the his
tory of caricature "
Drawing ability does not give one an unfair
advantage in Nelson’s class. "He is not impressed
by a flashy drawing,” Charlton says.
Instead, Nelson uses class time to trace the
development of the cartoon and expound its
importance
"Cartoons dress up the writing,” he says
Despite being an art-related course, Nelson
bases his grades mostly on an written examina
tion and a book report. Still, students have ample
opportunity to try their hand at drawing And while
there are few Gary Trudeau's in the class and
nobody has yet come up with a replacement for
Trudeau’s "Doonesbury" strip, Nelson says many
students are often pleasantly surprised
"Many journalism students are artists, of a
sort The two talents go together fairly well "
Most people will put their learned graphic
abilities to work, Nelson says "It's amazing how
many jobs there are where a little drawing comes
in handy "
Cartoons are the lifeblood of the class Nel
son's approach insures that most of the time is
devoted to his students presentations
Indeed, Nelson seems to obtain a great deal
of personal enjoyment from the course Handing
back homework that ranged from complex
drawings to stick figures. Nelson treats each with
equal sensitivity
"I really wish I didn't have to grade these, he
apologizes.
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