Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for August 06, 2011
August 05, 2011
August 07, 2011
Transcript:
Mom: How was Cartoon Camp, Petey? Petey: Okay. The new teacher is a clown in disguise. He called me "Pete." He wants us to draw a comic every day about our everyday lives. He said it could be boring, dull AND uneventful. Alice: Boy, are you going to ace this! Petey: I'm planning a 15-page comic about that spot on my ceiling that I like to stare at! Mom: Oh. Good.
As much as I enjoy Petey as a character, I’d sooner rip my own eyes from my skull than read his idea of “comics”. If I were Andre (and, at his age, I basically WAS Andre) I’d drop Mr. Other Spinnerack’s class after two sessions. Fake a cold for two weeks, then say “I’ve missed too much; I can’t go back now.”
Loris seems to have the dedication to produce the work despite the tedium of the assignments, but unless her REAL LIFE heavily involves cute, big-eyed aliens and vampires and robots, I can’t imagine that this course of instruction is in any way going to advance her artistic identity.