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Comic Relief A storytelling course gives students a creative outlet to new worlds.
Call their work comics if you must, but for students in Keith Mayerson’s Art 312 course, their final projects are also “tearstained masterpieces” that culminated from a semester spent apart. Mayerson, chair of painting, drawing and printmaking at the USC Roski School of Art and Design, usually celebrates the end of his course with a mini comics fair where students sell printed copies. So, during the pandemic, making a digital version and having comics available to download or read online made a lot of sense, he says. The result is Indoor Ink, an anthology that showcases the class’s work on the web. From adventures in ancient Rome to robot clashes in the future, students could develop meaningful visual stories in any style or genre they wanted. Go to uscne.ws/IndoorInk to read their stories. ELISA HUANG
“4D” BY ISABELLA MELENDEZ
Inspired in part by the 19th century satirical novel Flatland by Edwin Abbott, the senior art major’s story follows a scientist on the verge of venturing into the fourth dimension. “The comic is an exploration of science, death and connection,” she says. Go to uscne.ws/4D to read the full comic.
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Autumn 2021
