
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Week 6
Week 5 project (personal website) is on hold right now because of some technical difficulties. So instead of holding off I'm going to keep posting as I work out the bugs of my website.
For week 6 I'm posting the work I've been doing at the Career Development Center over this quarter. I build all of the following in Microsoft Publisher. Yeah, you heard me right, publisher! It's been quite a challenge using this program that is not intuitive if you've any other graphic design software. But, I suppose you never know what knowledge you might need down the road.
For week 6 I'm posting the work I've been doing at the Career Development Center over this quarter. I build all of the following in Microsoft Publisher. Yeah, you heard me right, publisher! It's been quite a challenge using this program that is not intuitive if you've any other graphic design software. But, I suppose you never know what knowledge you might need down the road.
Lynda Barry

Well it turns out that she actually went to Evergreen, along with Matt Groening. Apparently Groening published her comic "Ernie Pook's Comeek" in the CPJ. This was exciting to me, because I've had some stuff in the CPJ. (not like it was hard). So after Evergreen she moved to Seattle and was picked up by the Chicago Reader.

From her book "What It Is", Barry writes "Paper and Ink have a conjuring abilities of their own. Arrangements of lines and shapes of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in." This quote really stuck out to me; I think its because Barry said what I knew was true and had felt before, but never been able to articulate that well.

I really enjoyed reading Lynda Barry's comics and learning about her. The
most important thing that Lynda Barry illuminated for me is to have fun and develop your own style/voice, which is something that I'm working on, though I feel I still need work in that area.
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