Work Begins on Uncanny Vol. 2!

Amid a Busy CCS Senior Thesis Assessment Week and Graduation, Launch of 2nd Volume Labor Underway…

[Note: For some reason, the blog isn’t allowing me to load images this morning. I’ll try to remedy this later in the day, and post the intended illustrations.]

More on the upcoming Center for Cartoon Studies graduation (this Saturday!) tomorrow, but I’m about to plunge into a full day of final CCS Senior Thesis assessment/grading sessions with the team I’m part of (we have two teams this year, given the unprecedented size of our senior class). Despite that workload, Tales of the Uncanny co-editor (and CCS senior) Tim Stout and I plunged into a full schedule of meetings yesterday on the Tales project.

We opened up a full 90 minutes for one-on-one meetings with contributors to Volume 1 to discuss plans for their potential contributions to Volume 2; we met for an hour with the Vol. 1 contributors as a group to update them on our collective progress, and lay out the May-June production schedule, air concerns, answer questions.

After that, an almost two-hour meeting was conducted with the CCSers who, until last Thursday, were freshmen — and hence not invited to work on Volume 1, lest it upset their heavy CCS class workload — and who are now the new senior CCSers, who are now invited to participate in Tales of the Uncanny Volume 2! That session was capped with a slide show Tim and I prepared showcasing just some of what’s going into Volume 1. We’re excited about where all this might go this summer creatively, and it’s a promising start for the new future of N-Man, The Fury, The Hypernaut, Queep and Sky Solo and the Screamin’ Skydogs!

and we’ll be sharing updates and previews here at Myrant over the summer months. Keep your eyes open, and enjoy!
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* I’ve avoided any political discussions on Myrant for a bit, but the ongoing GOP antics in Arizona are becoming increasingly bizarre. In the latest legal skirmish against its immigrant and emigrant population,

In one of those utterly transparent and immediately self-evident ironies this kind of bullshit continues to yield, “State schools chief Tom Horne, who has pushed the bill for years, said he believes the Tucson school district’s Mexican-American studies program teaches Latino students that they are oppressed by white people.”

Well, there ya go, Tom Horne and Governor Brewer.

You’ve now made the oppression overtly legal and official.

Horne has “been trying to restrict it ever since he learned that Hispanic civil rights activist Dolores Huerta told students in 2006 that “Republicans hate Latinos.”…”

Way to show ’em otherwise.