Category: so lame

it’s not you, it’s me

Posted on by Nathan

This is going to make me sound like a jerk, but I’m going to be honest here and tell you…

Why I Might Reject Your Comic Idea (Even If I Asked You For One)

  1. It didn’t make sense.
  2. It made sense, but it wasn’t funny.
  3. It was tonally inconsistent with the site or had inappropriate content.
  4. I already had an idea / don’t like you / any one of a number of other minor reasons.

It has happened that people have helped me develop great ideas that I have used. But in the main, when I ask for an idea I’m dimly hoping that the stars will align and you will open your mouth and say something brilliant, something that you maybe didn’t even think you were going to say. If that happens, great! When it doesn’t I go back to thinking for myself.

Part of it is that I’m protective of my work, and don’t really want people telling me what to do. Part of it is that I have an (enormously varied) audience to keep in mind. And part of it is, like the alt-text says, this is supposed to be a journal comic; if I used everybody else’s suggestions (and these happen more often than you might think) it would sort of defeat the purpose, wouldn’t it? [June 12, 2012]

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

Posted on by Nathan

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]