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class 7 read zines &

Tuesday February 14, 2012

from Doris #9 was a comics issues

Assignment overview: 

- read, review zines (online)

- revise essays:  consumer history, class, parent iv

- create illustration on consumer history using collage

 

Readings

1.  Cindy Gretchen Ovenrack Crabb. Doris # 9 was a comics issue, (pp.144-182) in Doris, an Anthology, 1991-2001, 2005.  https://udrive.oit.umass.edu/comm397ss-jsaxe/zines/Doris9.pdf

2.  Casket bliss zine.  https://udrive.oit.umass.edu/comm397ss-jsaxe/zines/CasketBlissC.pdf

3. Kate Vivian, What’s Your Ideal Body Image zine project, Comm. 397ss, Fall 2009.  https://udrive.oit.umass.edu/comm397ss-jsaxe/zines/KateVzine.pdf

4.  Ideas in Pictures zine.  https://udrive.oit.umass.edu/comm397ss-jsaxe/zines/IdeasInPictures.pdf

Reading questions

1.  How do you characterize the style and meanings of Doris #9? (reading #2)  What do you think of the design elements?  If you were doing a Doris-zine of your life experience, what scenes, thoughts, feelings, and images might you re-present?  What stories would you tell?

2.  What do you think of the other 3 zines? What works?  Could work better?  What design ides might you apply?

3.  Mary Gustafson in “Grrrl power” sweeps the web” (2000), observes the shift by young women zinesters from publishing on paper to the web.  With the pervasive influence of cyberspace, what’s the logic of creating a photocopied paper zine?  What are the differences in a paper vs. online digital form?

Revise written materials & create illustration

1.  Based on peer and instructor feedback, revise your written materials:  consumer history, parent interview notes, 2 stories on classism – what you’ve observed, what you’ve internalized.

  • In your revisions consider adding a bit more detail and elaboration of “the story” and how you interpret what these experiences mean for you.  While what you’ve originally written may be adequate, there may also be a bit more polish and depth to offer.

2.  Create an illustration for your consumer history essay using collage techniques.

  • Brainstorm how to represent some element of your relationship to consumerism, things and/or people.
  • Search for cut-outs from magazines, adverts, and/or clip art to integrate.
  • Supplement with other illustration techniques:  cartoon, stick-figures, crayons, pencil, digital drawing.
  • Include some written text to amplify the meaning.  The tone may be ironic, satiric, melodramatic, realistic.
  • Photocopy the illustration to see how the image reproduces in both black & white and color.
  • Bring the original and a photocopy to class to display for our in-class gallery.