School Paper Comics

Zhongda · Post by **Zhongda** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:07 pm

*snip*

"your participation is appreciated"

In this topic:

We could talk about comics in your school paper that are pretty good, and the keys to success in running your comic in a school paper.

Datachasers · Post by **Datachasers** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:23 pm

your right.. they killed my soul...

yours is the best of the bunch . and its not half bad eather art wise ..

and why the hell are those others on a newspaper? in SCHOOL!?

Kel.E · Post by **Kel.E** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:12 am

I thought you were just exaggerating about how the other comics were bad...but I see that it was no joke. Reading the other comics made me gag. And yours made me feel a little happier because the suckage was non-existent.

My school has a spoof paper[makes fun of almost every kid in the school, yet they still love it], and I'm being forced to do a comic for them. What kind of jokes do you think is bad for a school paper? Thanks in advanced.

NakedElf · Post by **NakedElf** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 1:15 pm

I assume your average school paper is going to want you to keep the content g or pg. So I'd say no drugs, penises, aborted fetus jokes, Nazi jokes, aborted Nazi fetus jokes, aborted Nazi fetus penis jokes... And in general, I think jokes which the student body will find relevant are appreciated. Poking fun at the school is generally okay, but poking fun of specific individuals should probably be avoided.

Zhongda · Post by **Zhongda** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:36 pm

Speaking of controversial content, our school paper did gain enough notoriety to make it on Wikipedia!

But yeah, catering to a collegiate audience is pretty tough! If they have to think they'll hate it, and if it's not low-brow humor they'll hate it.

Kel.E · Post by **Kel.E** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:59 pm

Zhongda wrote:But yeah, catering to a collegiate audience is pretty tough! If they have to think they'll hate it, and if it's not low-brow humor they'll hate it.

But I'm only jailbait. I'm in high school. But the kids here are extremely prissy, and think they're 25 years old and own the world. Do you think low-brow humour would work for them too? Or something more about the school and not random, like nakedelf's suggestion? [sorry for all the quesitons you guys.]

And congrats on your school paper making it to wiki.

Geekblather · Post by **Geekblather** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:03 pm

I think the difference is that high school kids are really anxious to grow up and be on their own, and college kids are on their own and long for the days when someone else made dinner and washed up and paid bills. Hence, when I was in school the #1 write in candidate for Student body president was "Matt Carter's Left Testicle."

Actually- got more votes collectively than many actual candidates.

Orinocou · Post by **Orinocou** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:07 pm

Meh, in my (former) college paper, a lot of artists relied on bar/drinking humor, which made for Grade-A-crap. Though I know that some artists tried to have stories that included local campus landmarks, and that was kind of cool. They were sort of like "you'd only get this joke if you were an Illini/Fighting Irish/insert misc. racial stereotype used for college mascot".

You might get some brownie points with your readers if you include some local color in your stories, is all I'm saying.

NakedElf · Post by **NakedElf** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:09 pm

I'm sure it was a very prestigious testicle.