A super article, penned by Nóra McIntyre, appeared in the last issue of the semester of the UAF student newspaper about the inaugural offering in the fall of 2023 of the Cartoon & Comics Arts course. It's not on-line at the moment, but if and when it does, it's rumored to perhaps contain many, many more of the sample works provided to the paper when they first wrote the piece, since the space constraints of the print media version logistically limited how many could appear in meatspace. My own humble idea to completely convert one entire issue to just comics (similar to what we did when I was the comics editor of The District at SCAD) still stands.
But in all seriousness, hopefully a couple more cartoonists will start submitting their work on a regular basis as a result of the course now occurring on a regular basis. As it was a handful of folks got to see print: strips by Renee Kurka, Karl Stevens, Jenae Matson, and an example of the collaborative page exercise.
Speaking of the student newspaper, while Googling my name and “Sun Star” to see if the online version had run, there was a post on Reddit about a recent editorial panel of mine that the paper had run. Of interest was a comment that highlit the death of irony. Specifically it's always a going concern, a fear that folks who are the target of satire are sometimes so dense that they might miss the point of a cartoon, and instead interpret the sentiment of it being in support of their position, ie too fucking stupid to get that it's at their expense. To be sure, one could charge the artist with being to witty for their own good, which I'm guilty of being convinced of my own greatness so it can't possibly be my fault someone doesn't get it.
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