8 The Clackamas Print
Mv Oc, 20 2010
Comics jam at CCC
Culture
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21+: Calm your
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Illustration by Jail
By Joshua Baird
Arts & Culture Editor
John Petty Clackamas Print
Comic book artist Scott McCloud explains to the audience how three lines can be per­
ceived as a face, even if it is made of a 2x4 and two cupcakes.
. “Maybe the computer screen was just anoth­
er shape,” McCloud said. “Maybe it was just as
limited a thing as the printed page ... Unless
we didn’t look at the screen as a page, but we
looked at the screen instead as a window.”
The future of comics is what we make of it.
More than 50 people attended McCloud’s
This seems to be the principle lesson of comic
presentation Friday night and roughly half came
book artist Scott McCloud’s talk last Friday, kick­
ing off the 24-Hour Story Jam. McCloud spoke in back on Saturday for the workshops in letter­
pressing and comic production offered by the
the Niemeyer Center Auditorium on the past, pres­
English department.
ent and especially the future of comics as literature
One participant from the comics workshop,
and their interpretation by readers.
Clackamas Community College student Eamon
Dixon, produced an eight-page mini-comic with
a story from his own life experiences.
“It’s sort of going to be about an argument
that I had with my girlfriend recently that
will hopefully come across as humorous,” he
said. “A very poorly drawn autobiographical
comic.”
Another Clackamas student, Jesse Corey,
elected to join the letter-pressing workshop.
Those who attended that workshop were able to
use antique mechanical letter-presses for their
projects.
When asked his opinion on the notion that
electronic gadgetry will one day soon replace
such antiquated physical formats, Corey was
adamant that digital media will never fully
replace physical print as long as people want
it in the old format. “You can give me a book
on an e-reader, or a Kindle, and I’ll read it,” he
Jesse Corey
said, “but I won’t enjoy it as much as I would if
Clackamas student
I had the book in front of me. I like the feel of
the pages and the old-book smell.”
Trevor Dodge of the English department sees
McCloud’s presentation and the 24-Hour Story
Jam- as a stepping stone for Clackamas toward
McCloud’s main focus was the parallel evolu­
tion of comics and the media in which they are* offering more advanced curriculum around
displayed. He cited cave paintings as the earliest comics as literary devices. Dodge, who will
possible example and worked his way up through teach two comic-intensive classes this spring,
acknowledges that most two-year schools don’t
hieroglyphs, stained glass cathedral windows and
eventually to the Web-based comics so prevalent tend to focus on creativity, instead operating
today. As the media grew more complex, so could more like refineries tailoring people to fill jobs,
the ideas portrayed in the comics themselves and but, Dodge said, the “job track should not over­
ride the marketplace of ideals.”
so could the format those ideas took.
Those looking for more information on the
McCloud postulated that early on in the com­
Story Jam or the course offerings involving
ing of computers and the Web that there were far
comics should contact Dodge or Kate Gray in
more possibilities opening up for comics than ever
the English department.
before.
By Kyle Smith
The Clackamas Print
This week’s emphasis is on the
after-party munchies. I am actually
convinced that alcohol companies are
in cahoots with fast food companies. I
say this because everybody I have ever
met at a bar or tavern always seems to
leave starving. In fact, the first words
I muttered on my 21st birthday when
my dri ver came to get me through my
drunken stupor were, “Taco Bell.”
Late night restaurants make a kill­
ing with the bar crowd, most notable
is Taco Bell and Shari’s, though that
doesn’t mean that those are the only
choices. Recently Subway has been
catering to those of us who have a
late night hunger for something not so
greasy. They are open 24 hours a day
at several locations, the closest to the
college is on Molalla Avenue.
The problem with late night res­
taurants is that people have to drive to
get there and most times have already
imbibed copious quantities of the
sauce. This is a bad idea in not just my
opinion but in the eyes of the law.
To avoid this problem, I suggest
either having a designated driver in
your group who is willing to baby-sit
you after a couple hours of drinking,
playing pool, dancing or singing your
heart out to “Don’t Stop Believing” by
Journey, or call Designated Driver at
503 722-4042.
If you make the choice to call
“DD,” it is probably best to either eat
a bowl of cereal or have something
pre-made that will satisfy your hunger
since operating a stove can lead to
nasty bums, overcooked food, a trip to
the hospital or a kitchen fire.
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You can give me a
book on an e-reader,
or a Kindle and I’ll
read it... but I won’t
enjoy it as much as
I would if I had the
book in front of me.
what is my next move?
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