Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 27, 2015

Cue Janis Joplin.. – He’s got Luann’s belly button, huh? Maybe that explains why there’s a bit of lint on that speck of paper…. -If there’s a grandfather in that class, I wonder if he’s got anybody’s nose?

what an awkward lesson

“Piece Summit”“Fables Of The Reconstruction” (♫)“Take Two, They’re Small!”“Give It Away, Give It Away, Give It Away, Now” (♫)“Leggo My Ego!”“Fragment Of Your Imagination”“A Flying Figment”“Pros And Confetti”or“Take Another Piece Of My Heart…Or Whatever” (♫)

I’d share. I’d throw my bag at that pompous azz’s face!

I had really looked forward to Luann in college as an opportunity for her to identify her direction in life, find new friends who didn’t seem to consider her a clown to belittle, and just generally grow up.-This class just disappoints in so many ways.

“Fables Of The Reconstruction” (Album), REM“Give It Away” Red Hot Chilli Peppers“…Heart”, Janis Joplin“Every Time You Go Away”, Hall and Oates/Paul Young“With Or Without You”, U2 (♫…And you give yourself away…♫)“Let It Go”, from Frozen

Luann and the other students should just toss the shredded projects in the air, like it’s confetti… and say “These are our assignments for your class… we did them, you shredded them, so you keep them.”

I’m still waiting for the episode where the Men in the White Coats show up.“Sooooo, an art teacher this time; I must say, you’re getting more creative with every escape, Mr Demara.”

She’s leavin’ on that midriff train to Georgia.

This teacher is crap

Those that can do, those that can’t, teach. It just popped in my head.

or they can put a boombox, throw what is left of portraits like confetti, and dance to KATG celebration or Madonna’s holiday

bag? I thought it was a truckload

Excellent!

He’s a master to be teaching on ego- he has so much of it!

cringe

This is so stupid I can’t believe it! Who hired this idiot as a teacher?Molasses and confetti are too good for him!

This arc is just silly.

Now he’s crossed over into the ridiculous.

Prof Goofus would have to pay me to attend a time waster like this class. Not the other way around.

The arc did accomplish one thing: it makes the Gunther.arc look better.

Next: They tape all the pieces together again. Well, it makes as much sense as anything else in “Luann”.

Heh, heh! One wonders if somehow a ride in the car with that song coming on could’ve been the spark…

A good twist on “tar and feather”! He’d probably decide to take a pic of himself afterward, though….

Oh give it a rest, she’s going to community college. They’re not known for their stellar programmes anyway, but this one actually has a few lessons in it, albeit ones that hurt.

More about life than about art, but for most people going here that’s actually more useful.

And even at the best universities, nevermind cc or high schools, properly good art teachers are rare. Even those that some people think are good usually are pandering to the best artists in the class and being a walking textbook. They also rarely address the professional side of it, when that’s often what most art students need.

This guy isn’t doing any better (yet) on that scale, but he is dragging a bunch of non-artist misfits into thinking, hopefully. I have some faith in the end of this arc. And I actually like the gunther one lots! Not to say everything happening in it is “good” but it shows realistically the process, and gunther is growing… lots of 18yos think and do lots of stupid things, give him the chance as well.

…also i’m not sure I know too many people who found direction at community college, usually you need the direction first to make use of them. Friends thing, maybe more hit and miss, but she lives with her parents still, and there won’t be such a big social life attached. So that’s a lot to hope for. I’d accept maybe the hope that something else in her life happens during this to give her direction, but lots of people live their whole lives as Luann has…

This is different…

The Cyclops kid is starting to creep me out.

The trend to “teaching” conceptual art is a cop-out unless accompanied by foundational design information and the opportunity to build skills. Yes, the need to examine oneself can be beneficial but, in the real world art market, skills are what matter because not everyone is going to be selling work in New York galleries. Artists are needed in industry, video work, advertising, movie making, fashion, entertaining via cartooning,as well as the traditional stuff people call ART.This instructor is doing an art therapy technique in a classroom without thinking of potential consequences to fragile students.

Is this guy an art teacher or a psych teacher.

I would leave a lit bag of my “ego” on his door step and ring the bell as performance art.

Have some of my hair, guy! You can use it! *I dump my bag on his head."

i wonder if he is going to smell the ’button.

I’m so so glad I got my degree in computer science. None of this BS in any of my classes.

This is pretty realistic when one thinks about the quality of most community college programs, as @sbischof mentioned.

Greg has been doing this strip for just 10 days over 30 years – it just occurred to me and I missed the anniversary, darnit – and in all that time he has never been afraid to address the difficult issues. Life, or at least first-world life, really happens in this little sub-universe, and yet – because the God of This World strikes me as a good and decent person, and because he has his hands on the lives of his creatures, I trust that every challenge, every twist of fate, every hardship will ultimately work out well in the end for the DeGroot family and those of good will who surround them.

I am liking Zebo more and more. This is a great story arc, and I look forward to it greatly!

Either one of her classmates would make a more interesting soul mate for her, Quill is just too… grounded, not to mention perfect.

Shredded treasures

I’m beginning to see the point of this lesson.

Now this is a fine institution of higher learning. Learning, whereby Luann is about to find out that just because someone is placed in authority doesn’t mean that they know anything about the subject they claim to be an authority on. I had a prof at my college who taught economics and it turned out he was a putz. Lesson learned for me…

-She doesn’t even care-I’ve said in other posts that Luann and the others are first year students who really don’t know whether this is the way college is supposed to be or not, and don’t know if it would be inappropriate to react in any manner other than acceptance to an authority figure.-Please see victoria2’s comment, above, she is saying much more clearly a large part of what I’ve been trying to say. These kids are being played, and they don’t know how to react. Some may call this ‘art therapy’. I still regard it as straight out abuse of authority and bullying.

“(Take it!) Take another little piece of my heart now, baby…”

Cue Janis Joplin? Ok – I’m gonna buy me a Mercedes Benz. My friends all got portraits…

Actually, I doubt that Luann is learning anything more practical in Mr. Rain’s “Introduction to Our Digital World” course, or whatever it was, than she is learning in this art class. Once Luann gets her Associate’s degree from Pitt, she will be no better prepared for a career behind the counter at Weenie World than she was when she got her high school diploma. However, maybe Mr. Zebo’s class will at least have made her a better person (for letting go of her ego), so her college experience will still have been worthwhile.

This is a really dumb arc. Let’s move along.

You nailed it. Besides, teachers like this exist – I’ve had a few and I went to a large college. College isn’t just about learning facts and theories; it’s about learning how to think. I sort of like the way Greg has portrayed the teacher as a stuffed-shirt extrovert. Maybe if some of the people making comments here actually opened their mind a little, they could see the parody of life in the strip. It’s all good…

How did this assignment work?*Each student shredded her work. Zebo took the top of the shredder and asked each student to empty the contents into a brown paper bag? What a waste of time.

I taught art at the university, I can assure you Luan’s professor is full of crap.

It’s not abuse of authority, it’s Mr. Zebo’s idea of creating art. That’s what he’s paid to do. The students are being exposed to notions about the nature of art that are quite different from their pre-conceptions of the subject, and that’s part of what college is supposed to be about.-As far as the “destruction” of the students’ self-portraits goes, this is no different than if a chemistry professor told the class to take the compounds that they prepared in last week’s lab and use them in a new reaction this week. It destroys all their previous hard work from last week, but so what.

Maybe it’s a satire on lame, incompetent professors.

“have some luann” – hilarious – and all he took was her belly button – priceless

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hey mom and dad look what your $10,000.00 bought me – a bag of confetti art!!!!

We know Ms. M. was a caricature of Mr. Evan’s art teacher. Is Mr. Zebo also depicting his own art training?

Luann is interested in just about everything – for about a week or two. If she does continue to work hard in this class, then Mr. Zebo will have inspired her more than her previous teachers have done.

I detect a possible sly tribute to Mort Walker— “Belly buttons were a big battle of mine. Down at the syndicate they would clip them out with a razor blade. I began putting so many of them in, in the margins and everywhere, that they had a little box down there called Beetle Bailey’s Belly-Button Box. The editors finally gave up after I did one strip showing a delivery of navel oranges.”

Did Mr. Jock really get Luann’s belly-button, or is that actually a fragment of the “3 dots” face she drew for self-portrait #17?

The biggest bag of ego is the teacher — but you wouldn’t want to share what HE’S made of…

ironman01 — I’ve done and I’ve taught — both. The person who made up that truth is a student who didn’t take responsiblity and wanted to blame their own failings and nonparticipation on the teacher.

So, letting go is lesson 2, whats #3?

tomorrow the 3 studgies should thank Zebo with a big breakfast plate of Eggos so that when he asks why the gift they can say “we want you to get so full that you end up throwing up your whole eGo away”

Worst arc in the history of the Luann strip.

<(…) a community college in California is about $40/credit hour.>

Oh! It’s in CALIFORNIA! (Now it makes sense….)

Thank God its Friday – just one more Colonel Zebo strip to endure for this week.

clearly this not a studio art class and maybe Zebo is not really an artist himself and therefore not capable of judging each student’s work; so I guess to avoid having do a lot of difficult grading, he just has students shred the work…. ha ha.. to cut down on his work load..

“Pick Up The Pieces”^Forgot about that…a nod to AWB, even!

But wouldn’t he then be compelled to "discard his ‘selfie’ "?^There are those who subsequently upload them to Instagram, Vines, or “Tele-Whatchamacallit”… not to mention Facebook…though I doubt he’d be on to that, but who knows with this one?

HOWTHEDUCK, yes, that’s a big ol’ bag of ego teaching the class.

maybe the Jock or Emo guy has the name of Rees and Luann is getting Rees’ pieces ;) and the other one is Phill N. and we get Phill N. Pieces

BRDSHTT…Yesssssssss… Zebo, molasses, confetti. Now that’s art!

in itself, I don’t have problem of a teacher teaching to “let go of ego and id”, except that in the self portrait lesson, , of the 3 students we know, Lue might be only one who followed instructions(there is still a chance emo did use sharpies on black papers and drawings are not normally visible), so it was not a case of students “full of themselves” (except maybe jock) and if anything, the one who is lot letting go of a self sense of grandeur is Zebo

Ha ha hah!!!!

“I’m not sure, but it could involve a tube of glue, and deciding which pieces go where…!”*JPW – what a great, hilarious idea! Everyone takes their pieces and makes another shape— human, canine, ethereal. That WOULD be a good lesson— on the malleabiity of art, on the one-ness of existence, of melding with the elements.

Greg should start some sparks between Luann and art boy.

For the cost per credit hour at community colleges, this sort of class is a waste of time and money.

We won’t want whether all this is doing any good, until we compare the art that Luann makes at the end of the course with her earlier work.

Okay, kids; now we’re going to have another exercise in ego-shredding. We’re going to take the smug fraud’s purple silk and velvet jacket and run it through the shredder. Then, we’ll exchange bits of it while laughing uncontrollably. Then, we’ll stage a walk-out from his so-called class and take our story to the press to get him fired and maybe jailed for his abusive and bullying behavior. Doesn’t that sound like a fun learning experience?

hee hee hee …..

confidence is not the same as thinking “I am superior and everyone else is inferior”, it is better to go with " I put my best effort and I am proud of that effort, if a lot of people enjoy it, I am grateful to them that they feel that way, but that praise they give me does not define me, just like any criticism they give does not define me"

I think that Luann should take the “bag of her ego” home to her parents and tell them that this is what they are paying for.

you like Sonic? ;)

SPOILER-‘Jock boy’ will show he lacks the smarts to save a paper bag of ego, let along ‘harbor feelings’ for anyone…

SPOILER TWO….-What’s best to do with a paper bag of ego tatters? Chuck it in the trash? Allow the universe to disperse it via a tear in the bag itself? Or, treat the contents like treasure?

Eureka! (I think Ben Franklin said that…)

Well, I wouldn’t want to eat a hedgehog, but there are folks who eat groundhog and say it’s tasty…

they not made of him, made by him, giving a new facet to the term “fast food” LOL

I don’t think this guy knows what he’s doing.