Comic Heads Meeting

I'm starting to write some notes for a CH meeting I'm heading on Feb. 3rd. The topic is "Environment as Character," and I'm deciding to split it into a discussion of environment influencing culture and thusly influencing character, and the second half, treating the environment and setting AS a character. It's difficult, cause I don't want to sound like a jackass, but I also want to make a point to a bunch of young comic artists (young in that they are freshmen and sophmores, unlike me- a senior).

Oh! I forgot to explain what CH, or Comic Heads, is. CH is a yearly anthology publication of comic artwork. I am one of the assistant editors, though my official title is marketing editor. The editorial staff asks for submissions from comic art students on campus, and we're also looking for comic art submissions from those who aren't comic art students. So the fine artists, the graphic designers, the film makers, the animators, the sculptors, the printers, the visualisation students, and the photographers are all encouraged to submit work to the publication.

The point of courting the non-comic students is simple: the comic art community at MCAD is getting incestous. We need new blood, new ideas, and new methods of working/mediums in comic art, and new ways of approaching sequential storytelling.

Anyway, I'll start posting samples of what I got within the week.