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Paper Cuts - The Archive
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Paper Cuts - Sketches
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Once I knew I was doing a full semester of cartoons, I sketched out as many rough drafts as I could come up with. Most of them were eventually redrawn and published, but a few of them didn't quite make it that far. A couple of them I apparently just forgot about, and submitted crappier cartoons in their place. All of these are scanned out of my sketchpads. Well, not really sketchpads - more like yellow Mead spiral notebooks. The cartoons aren't inked, and some of them aren't really even finished.
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Paper Cuts - Wednesday, February 22, 1995
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Wednesday, February 22, 1995. This is one of the "Original Five" cartoons that were my "audition" to the Chronicle. I couldn't help but notice that nearly every social situation at Duke revolved around either beer or coffee. The University had even installed coffee shops in the Bryan Center (Duke's student center) and in the main West Campus library. Inside joke: the name "The Perkaway" is an amalgam of The Perk, which was the Bryan Center's coffee shop, and The Hideaway, which was the on-campus bar.
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Paper Cuts - What Is This?
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What is Paper Cuts? Bad comedy meets bad artwork. Or something like that. I'll admit: it's not uncommon for me to wander around and think, "What is that. From good ideas gone wrong to sheer blistering stupidity, it's not hard to note when life runs amuck. Especially when you're on a college campus. Paper Cuts became my outlet. From January to May of 1995, the strip ran daily in the Duke Chronicle. Covering a wide array of oddities and. um. sheer blistering stupidity. (Sometimes, my own.).
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Paper Cuts - Monday, January 23, 1995
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Monday, January 23, 1995. It snowed the day this was published. Though not a whole lot, and not nearly enough to get class cancelled. (The only time Duke cancelled classes for snow while I was there was when there was a sheet of ice covering the campus. Teachers complained because they couldn't get. To campus, and people were breaking limbs on the stairs outside. And, even then, they simply made class "optional".).
