Category: technology

is it too audacious to suggest you check your messages later?

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teachers and EAs - you will get the best looks on your students' faces when you call them on it

This comic was inspired by my peers in the faculty of education, who, despite being educated adults, thought they could get away with texting in class. It was kinda ridiculous. However I will admit that there was something about Ed. that caused many of us to revert to school habits from younger days; we had degrees and yet couldn’t help being cliquey and disruptive and generally just like the students we were supposed to be learning to handle.

Oh and check out the lower left corner, somebody didn’t check to see if any lines were straying outside of the border… [June 12, 2012]

Interesting Times Friday Mailbag: "A Dubious Offer"

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Please send your comments, questions,
and yes, even your questionably valid offers
to journalcomic at gmail dot com

Come on! Do it!

[BEGIN COMMENTARY] I’m very happy with the artwork in this comic, starting with the Eustace Tilley shout-out in the middle panel (full disclosure: I’ve never read the New Yorker, but that’s sort of an iconic image and it captured what I was going for).

CARINA in the last panel looks like something you’d have to fight in Contra or Mega Man so of course I am happy with that too. Mostly it’s because of that big sort-of-skull on top, which honestly was an accident. When it comes to cartoony supercomputers I draw a big rectangle and start adding details, usually massive cables and lots of little lines. The “orbs” just made it look like a face, suddenly. [May 25, 2012]