This past week was jam packed with normalcy. There were many activities going on around the building and school wide. However, I did not get a chance to participate seeing as it is week 3 and the homework is really kicking in. Of my 5 classes two of them are comics classes. One of the classes is an art history class and the other is more of a studio class. Both have assigned readings every week as well as other various assignments. The weekly reading assignments have been good for both thus far, but my studio teacher also gave us a list of recommended books that we should try and squeeze in. The first book on the list was 99 ways to tell a story: an exercise in style by Matt Madden. He takes a simple 8 panel comic that takes up one page and then proceeds to tell the same basic story more than 100 ways. The point is to try and boil down a story and identify its intrinsic parts while also realizing that any change to the form is a change to the content. Overall Madden's book was awesome. One of the assigned readings for the studio class has been Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, which is excellent as well. However, I have read Understanding Comics a number of times so I thought it was high time that I finally read Will Eisner's Comics and Sequential Art for the sake of comparison. I'll keep you posted on the progress of that.

thats about it for today.
-Kyle
PS I was staff member of the week so my picture this week will be the Chicago Building's traveling trophy...The Peeing Dog