Abigail: Hellcat, he was not a threat!
Patsy: Come on! Haven’t you always wanted to punch Einstein in the face?Heralds #1
"The only thing to add would be that if you are lucky enough to get someone to say yes, bloody well say ‘thank you’."
-With kind respects to students who contact freelancers about doing interviews (always around this time of year I’ve noticed), I shall be redirecting you to this post by Marian Bantjes from now on.
I’ve always felt these “interview assignments” bordered on the lazy (on both the teacher’s part as well as the student), if not the utterly pointless. Oh sure, it’s nice to be asked (unless, like one student said, you bulk-emailed dozens of artists knowing at least one would be polite enough to get back to you; if that’s you, you are a discredit to us all), but it really seems like a case of the dog licking its own balls: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you have to. It’s not remotely difficult to get in touch with anyone anymore. In fact, it’s so damn easy it’s usually annoying.
To those who are teaching, I implore you to come up with better assignments. I’m sure you have a big workload, and I really respect you for doing this work. But when I was a student, I’d have considered such an assignment to be pointless busy-work. You’re a creative person, you can surely be more creative than that.
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Christmas Cards
Christmas cards, for years around here, were not exactly a minor project. They were an annoying multi-part wee art project. Limited to an edition of 50, someone basically had to die in order for a spot to open up. It’s not that they were some amazing, original work of genius… but it did take time and usually resulted in some kind of repetitive stress injury. We eventually stopped and we got enough reactions from people verging on criticism for doing so, that we knew it was the right thing to do.
So, for the last few years, this has been the new protocol: We don’t send cards, we reply to them. There’s a stack of cards in the middle of the dining room table right now, with a roll of stamps and a pen. They’re nothing spectacular, just the ones we received from the Heart and Stroke Foundation. But here’s the thing…. cards generally get answered over breakfast or dinner and this way, it’s not just signing our names, it’s a long note that, we hope, will be received with the same pleasure with which it’s written.
Happy Holidays.
Sketch: Stillman & Birn Alpha; Inks: Manga Studio EX 4.0; Colour: Photoshop CS4
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