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The The Zine Volume 4 Issue 7

April 15th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

The topic for this issue of The The Zine is Random. What on earth were we thinking with such a random topic? That could mean anything! Flinging the doors open to such creative possibilities is overwhelming! For some of our contributors pent up objectives, an open topic, and spring break all came together to produce some serious output!

Speaking of output: Waoooweee! What a week! The Harding Comic Club is releasing two, count them, TWO publications simultaneously! First the one everyone has been expecting Issue 7 of The The Zine, but we are also releasing the first volume collecting Annie Moua’s Shine!

Shine is the story of a sophomore attending Harding High School and all the dramatic heartache and romantic intrigue that faces her. It’s full of fun and excitement set in dream locations with an astronomical costuming budget. I highly recommend finding a copy or checking it out online. You will not regret reading Shine!

We are announcing the every hive needs a queen logo design contest! The solitary queen is a matriarch and symbol of the honey bee colony. Thousands of worker bees labor tirelessly toward a common objective under her unwavering leadership. The Harding Comic Club is just like a bee colony, except we have no symbol to guide us. Nothing, but you could change all that in our logo design contest! The winner will have their logo represent The Harding Comic Club and will be featured on our publications like The The Zine and on our website www.hscclub. net. It will be seen everywhere the Harding Comic Club is seen!

As with all comic club activities everyone is welcome to submit an entry whether or not you have ever attended Comic Club.

Entries are due at the comic club meeting April 22nd immediately after school in room 1440. If you can’t get your entry to the meeting an entry can be turned into a comic club officer or Mr. Brandt before the due date.

OK, now for the meat and potatoes!

We start off with an illustration by Maxamillian Jay on (page 1) this leads us into another example of his masterful poetry (page 2). If you still haven’t caught the bug for his poetry and are scratching your head wondering “Why do so many people think this stuff is great?” Do yourself a favor and lock yourself in the bathroom. Then read it aloud to your self. Max. J’s genius really comes out when you read his work out loud. It’s meant to be performed. His sense of rhythm turns words on a page into music. While the imagery he writes will make movies in your head.

Following Max. J are two Naruto parodies the first is by Nana in which Sasuke must make a choice. Nana is experimenting with new pencil shading techniques (page 3). The second parody by Wangsta is a great example of her inking talent and a fun submission as well (page 4).

We have another exciting moment in the life of Hue Lor (page 5). He’s sorry he was unable to ink it, but this gives you a chance to see how tight his pencil work is.

Robert Griffen and Hannah Moreno are back with another Angry Eddie comic (page 6). Pore Angry Eddie always tormented by his creators.

A I has a fun new two page story called Tazan (page 7). If you ever wanted to see Tarzan as a girl check it out something that is like Tarzan with a guy named Tazan (who isn’t a girl) check it out. She also did our beautiful cover!

Star felt very random for her submission in this issue (page 9). What does it mean!?! Then continued the senseless randominity on our back cover.

Now our editor Konoha is the heavy hitter for this issue coming in with a whopping 14 pages! Her first submission is a short autobiographical piece (page 10). She follows this with a random episode of Dragon’s Dream (page 12). Finally she closes the issue with a bit of a formatting experiment that reads Japanese manga style starting on page 28.

Wait! What’s this? Oh my, you’re going to have to sit down for this one. Are you sitting? Good because the second installment of Charles McGregor’s action story ‘Tribal’ is hitting the presses! (page 20) Ok, ok stop screaming and start reading. There are some very happy Tribal fans out there. Wow, I have a feeling we are going to be seeing some serious exposition in the next episode.

Well, that’s all I’ve got for this issue. Don’t forget to check out Shine and your logo contest designs are due in one week!

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  1. MaximillianJay
    April 21st, 2009 at 13:18 | #1
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    Do you happen to know where “Sour Grapes, Turned Mellow Cake” is?

  2. Andy
    April 21st, 2009 at 14:25 | #2
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    Sorry about that, In the rush to publish some things didn’t get finished correctly. It should now be on page 2. Thanks for the reminder I was able to correct several other mistakes as well!

  3. anonymous
    April 24th, 2009 at 18:52 | #3
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    I am sorry to bring this to your attention, but I had wanted to join your club, so I had prepared a rough draft story for your magazine.
    The problem is, when I showed it to a member of your club during
    one of my classes, he/she-I do not want to specify who it was for anonymities sake- not only rejected it, but insulted it, saying it wasn’t
    good etc.
    I no longer aspire to join your club, which I had admired up until this
    incident, and further, I used to read every issue of your publication, but will
    no longer read it… Again, I apologize for this and I wish your magazine luck.

  4. Andy
    April 25th, 2009 at 21:04 | #4
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    I’m sorry to hear this and will bring it up at the next club meeting.

    The creative process is always challenging, but the most terrifying aspect is the fear of how others see your work. I’m sorry you had a negative experience with this club member.

    Comic club is made up of individuals who each approach the world in their own unique way. Though you may have had a bad experience interacting with one club member I would still encourage you to come to a meeting or seek out the opinion of another club member. Within the club there are a variety of approaches to work and methods for helping others. I do not always approve the approaches of some club members, but am surprised by the novel direction in which they take things. Every contribution makes the club better.

    The club member in question may have been having a bad day or may not have an interest in the specifics of your work at this time. I assure you that this person is a valuable contributor in some way, but I am sorry that in this circumstance they were not helpful to you.

    I have been in the same situation as you numerous times. As an artist I put myself into my work and when that work is criticized it feels as if I am being criticized. In the harsher instances I feel intense shame, humiliation, fear, and anger. In that state it can be difficult to guide a critique to a positive outcome, but I encourage you to seek one.

    Your harshest critics can be made into an asset. Don’t let them merely dismiss your work by saying “it wasn’t good” ask them to be direct. What did they feel was not good about the work? Do they have ideas for improving the work?

    To tell you merely that your work is not good is often a symptom of jealousy or an attempt on the part of the critic to escape thinking deeply. If they are unwilling to talk details with you then disregard their comments. Maybe someday they will be inclined to take a more serious look at your work. If not, well, they have lost an opportunity.

    Thank you for not slandering individuals in this delicate situation; it shows strong character. Though this person may not have been at the top of their game in that moment I sense you have some respect for them. I hope that this incident can be made positive for everyone.

    Also if you get the chance I would like to read your draft. Please send it to admin@hscclub.net

  5. Konoha
    April 27th, 2009 at 14:26 | #5
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    Reply to: anonymous says:
    April 24, 2009 at 6:52 pm
    I am sorry to bring this to your attention, but I had wanted to join your club, so I had prepared a rough draft story for your magazine.
    The problem is, when I showed it to a member of your club during
    one of my classes, he/she-I do not want to specify who it was for anonymities sake- not only rejected it, but insulted it, saying it wasn’t
    good etc.
    I no longer aspire to join your club, which I had admired up until this
    incident, and further, I used to read every issue of your publication, but will
    no longer read it… Again, I apologize for this and I wish your magazine luck.
    ————————————-
    Sorry about that, I’m not able to recall if it was me or not–and I don’t know who you are either. However, it is actually safer to show your work to a Club Officer rather than a Club Member. Club Officers are for sure an Editor of the the Zine. So whoever this member was might have insulted you without intentionally doing so, or purposely did so because of some unspeakable reason. I do hope you will come in one day.
    If you would like to retry showing your work to someone else from the club you can always find Konoha (me)–> Manee Thao, sophomore, or Rasheed Johnson (Max. Jay), senior?, Moomoo (I don’t remember her real name, sorry), junior, and Gao (Kage), junior.
    It doesn’t matter if you’re good or not, just show up to have fun and learn new things. I hope we’ll see you in the club one day, even if we won’t know it’s you. ^^

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