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1. over 11 years ago on Luann

   I’ve noticed that, too. It might be because of him wanting to look good for her, or else Greg decided to draw him less teen messy and more clean cut man. Either way, I like the change.

2. almost 12 years ago on [Deleted]

   I went to a private school for grades 1-12 and had to deal with a similar favoritism toward athletics. They DID have art classes, but they only gave the teacher $1500 a year for supplies for ALL TWELVE GRADES. Not $1500 each, but for all of them together! It was pathetic. I’m now friends with that teacher and fortunately the school has changed their tune toward the arts, but it was really horrible for a long time.

   Most people don’t really have an idea of how much graphic artists affect their every day lives. Just think about it - how many things do you use, look at, or encounter each day that have been touched in some way by a graphic artist or designer? Literally everything! Even your tooth brush was designed and sculpted by an artist before it went into production, and a graphic designer designed the product packaging. Advertising is considered another kind of graphic art, too, as well as the opening credit sequences to TV shows (which is called motion design). The opening titles to “Mad Men” was designed by a guy from Ringling, which is the school I went to. I don’t know if you’ve seen the HGTV show “Color Splash with David Bromstad”, but David was an illustration major at Ringling as well. He graduated a few years before I started as a freshman.

   Ringling recently put together an entire website subsection addressing this lack of understanding, which I applaud them for and link teens to all the time to show their parents. Far too many talented kids can’t go to art school because their parents refuse to pay for it. They want their kids to have a “real job” instead of what they think is just shoving around paint on a canvas or doodling, which is really quite sad. I’ve always considered myself to be very blessed because my parents never discouraged my art — they actually bent over backwards to encourage it and do whatever they could to help me. They even went so far as searching for a private art tutor for me as a teenager because I was so far beyond what my school provided. They didn’t hesitate even for a moment when I told them I wanted to go to art school, either. Their immediate answer was “Okay, which one?” That is an incredibly rare thing.

   If you’re interested in seeing more of what the graphic art industry does, this is that website I mentioned: proof . ringling . edu

3. almost 12 years ago on Luann

   You have no idea how much graphic artists hate that stereotype.

   BFA in Illustration here — unless you’re a fine artist or gallery artist that stereotype is absolutely not true. Computer animation, illustration, graphic design, interior design, motion design, etc., are all lucrative degrees to hold if you go to a reputable school. Neither I or any of my peers have ever had to say “would you like fries with that” after graduating. Most people outside the industry think we do, though, because they squish liberal arts into the little box of the starving artist trying to hock mediocre paintings on the street corner.

   Good art schools (not the “AI” chain of diploma mill schools) get you good jobs because all of the major companies in the industry come to campus every year to recruit graduating seniors. I’m currently working for three production and design companies on top of individual commissions. My old classmates are working at places like Pixar, Nickelodeon, Hallmark, American Greetings, Carter’s Children’s Clothing, DreamWorks, Disney Design Group, etc., and even the CIA (they use technical illustrators for their training manuals). Even in a lousy economy, corporations and media companies still need artists and designers in order to keep their wheels turning.

4. almost 12 years ago on Luann

   There is absolutely no reason why it has to be one or the other. For the sake of having a chance at a career, yes, get an education. My sister dropped out of college partway through her second semester freshman year. Why? To get married.

   Fast forward nearly 30 years and she is now divorced and has had to go back to school at 45 in order to get a decent job to support herself and her daughter, and now she’s having to switch to a different school because the one she went back to took away all of her grants because she dropped all of her classes that 30 years ago! The school actually called her a “flight risk” even though she’s carrying a 4.0 now. Needless to say, she has very much regretted not getting her education while the money and opportunity were originally there via our parents.

   If whoever you’re with is really “The One”, the relationship will last long enough for you to finish your education before getting married. Some of the people I went to college with were already married and managed to make that option work, too, although it wasn’t easy.

5. over 12 years ago on Luann

   My older sister tanned all the time both in the sun and on tanning beds well into her 20’s. She’s 45 now and has a face covered in small freckles from skin damage and has a scar on her lip where a spot of skin cancer had to be removed. She now says that she really regrets all the tanning she did when she was young.

   I never had any desire whatsoever to tan when I was a teen. Besides not being interested in going to that much expense just to “look good”, I didn’t want to damage my skin or get cancer. Both of my parents, my sister, and one of my uncles have all had skin cancers removed since my father’s side of the family is Norwegian-Swede and my mother’s side is basically a “potluck of pasty” from all over Europe. We don’t tan — we burn!

6. over 12 years ago on Luann

   Tiff has gotten so desperate to one-up Luann it’s just sad now. I do wish she could know what Luann’s (what-turned-out-to-be) “special goodbye” was, though. The fireworks show would be spectacular!

7. over 12 years ago on Luann

   How many more days is the going to drag on? The horse is dead!

8. over 12 years ago on Luann

   Greg must sabotage every single relationship he creates because he has no idea what the hell to do once the relationship starts. Maddening! Greg, if you can’t handle writing romantic relationships then DON’T START THEM! It’s not that difficult of a concept and only drives your readers up a frickin’ WALL.

9. over 12 years ago on Luann

   Greg, I think if you had tried REALLY REALLY HARD then you MIGHT have been able to be even more predictable and cliche than you already were with this.

   I mean come on, really? It’s unrealistic for ALL of Luann’s love interests to move away. God forbid you let her have a boyfriend!

   I’m hoping you’re going to turn this around in some way because if not, this is lame and just as obnoxious as when TV writers do the same thing OVER and OVER and OVER again when it comes to love interests. I’ve given up on more than one TV serial because of the writers running in circles.

10. over 12 years ago on Luann

    Why the hell are so many of you leaping right into sppeculating about Quill and Luann going straight for home plate after their first “real” kiss? That’s more than a bit creepy given the fact that all of you are adults and Luann is what? 16? And completely inexperienced at that. She’s not going to kiss a guy she really likes and then immediately put out. Greg gave us a sweet moment between the two of them and you guys are tossing it straight into the gutter.