USA Today has a story on how many colleges and highschools are starting to teach classes on sequential art and cartooning, in general. And while the article is brief and not very informative to those of us in the hobby, I wanted to direct your attention to the comments at the bottom of the page.
Is it just me or do you also find it a bit shocking that so many people are still so anti-comics? Because that's really what it is. "Iranians are studying nuclear fission"? Seriously? Yeah, I don't think so - it's a third-world shithole where their women aren't even allowed to leave the house; I wouldn't consider Iran academically superior to America simply because our colleges offer courses on sequential art. Or for any other reason, come to think of it.
I don't guess it's that weird that the idea of comics being "childish" or inconsequential as a form of serious art/communications is still around, but it's a little bizarre that some people still feel so strongly about their somehow being inappropriate or otherwise worthless. A class on sequential art is certainly no different from a fine arts class on figure drawing, or any other fine arts class, for that matter. In fact, sequential art is generally more demanding than traditional fine arts, as it is comprised of so many individual elements usually divided in the latter: figure drawing/anatomy, landscape, caricature, still life, and so on.
But no matter whether or not you agree with me, I find it odd that anyone could be so vehemently against the idea.
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