2008 Woodie Awards
Tasteless comic deprives reader of artistic appreciation
Issue date: 3/18/08 Section: Opinion
To whom it may concern: As a Loyola College senior, I have spent four years reading the student-published Greyhound and never have I been as disgusted by the comic strip until Insert Comic Name.
The Greyhound features many well-written articles by Loyola students and other fine journalists. I am always confident that most of the articles are topical and relate to the Loyola College community. However, the comic strip featured in The Greyhound is as detached from the bulk of students as one can get.
The Sunday comic strip was the highlight of the newspaper for me when I was young. As I've grown older, and a bit more mature, I've started actually reading the articles and appreciating their content.
But, I still enjoy the ability to regress and read the comic for a light laugh from a witty joke. Much to my dismay, Loyola has deprived me of this pleasure.
In its place is a poorly drawn cartoon with a lackluster dialogue and an inside joke that I'm not in on.
First of all, the artistic quality is a crude contour drawing that closely resembles theater kids and an always present Theater Party banner. More importantly, the joke fails to deliver actual humor and the theme seems to be that of a theater kid's life.
There are, in my generous estimation, approximately 50 students who participate in theater related events. So that offers those few students the possibility to decipher the humor within the comic strip while the remaining 3,500 students are left in the dark.
During the week of Feb. 26, I was offered a brief period of hope when a different, well drawn, generally humorous comic strip was featured in The Greyhound.
Much to my dismay this week featured the same old, consistently unfunny, poorly drawn comic that I have seen all throughout the year. In conclusion, the comic strip rarely relates to the bulk of the college community and displays a weak attempt to artistically represent a joke.
My solution is to create a story line first that is approved by the editor as both humorous and relative to the college community. Then, give the story line to an artist to create the comic strip.
I enjoy reading a student drawn and written comic strip to see what clever jokes my classmates will make.
But, there needs to be a check of what is being published to be sure that it is a decent quality comic with a joke that most students will relate to and enjoy.
Brian Benesch '08
Mechanical Engineering
The Greyhound features many well-written articles by Loyola students and other fine journalists. I am always confident that most of the articles are topical and relate to the Loyola College community. However, the comic strip featured in The Greyhound is as detached from the bulk of students as one can get.
The Sunday comic strip was the highlight of the newspaper for me when I was young. As I've grown older, and a bit more mature, I've started actually reading the articles and appreciating their content.
But, I still enjoy the ability to regress and read the comic for a light laugh from a witty joke. Much to my dismay, Loyola has deprived me of this pleasure.
In its place is a poorly drawn cartoon with a lackluster dialogue and an inside joke that I'm not in on.
First of all, the artistic quality is a crude contour drawing that closely resembles theater kids and an always present Theater Party banner. More importantly, the joke fails to deliver actual humor and the theme seems to be that of a theater kid's life.
There are, in my generous estimation, approximately 50 students who participate in theater related events. So that offers those few students the possibility to decipher the humor within the comic strip while the remaining 3,500 students are left in the dark.
During the week of Feb. 26, I was offered a brief period of hope when a different, well drawn, generally humorous comic strip was featured in The Greyhound.
Much to my dismay this week featured the same old, consistently unfunny, poorly drawn comic that I have seen all throughout the year. In conclusion, the comic strip rarely relates to the bulk of the college community and displays a weak attempt to artistically represent a joke.
My solution is to create a story line first that is approved by the editor as both humorous and relative to the college community. Then, give the story line to an artist to create the comic strip.
I enjoy reading a student drawn and written comic strip to see what clever jokes my classmates will make.
But, there needs to be a check of what is being published to be sure that it is a decent quality comic with a joke that most students will relate to and enjoy.
Brian Benesch '08
Mechanical Engineering
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