Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 31, 2015

An experience of in one ear and out the other the jock had.

Yup…"Mixmaster Zébo in da houssss!"… and his “turntable” style is so infectious, it’s got everybody scratchin’ !

“The Pros And Confusion”“A Class With No Class”“Rinse And Repeat”“Identity Crisis”“Land Of Confusion” (♫)“You’ve Got Me Going In Circles…(♫)”“Here’s Muddled In Your Eye!”“To Sir, With Whaaat ?”“Atilla The Huhhh ?’“A Catch In Room 222”or…“The Dark Side Of The Classroom” (♫)

College doesn’t have a bell! Greg is too used to writing high school!

Luann’s halfway there. She looks like she wet herself in the final panel.

Someone is showing up kekid tomorrow!

Funny, I don’t remember a bell schedule from when I was in college.

Greg was once an art teacher (high school, not college). I’d be pretty confident that these sequences are not autobiographical!!

Somebody needs to point out to Zébo that when someone claims to understand art, they reveal that they know nothing about it. Art can only be created by those who don’t understand it.

Ahhh…for the good ole days of Fogarty and Blips. Teachers that Luann understood, ignored, but understood.

Okay, this was a strange strip this week.Is creativizing a word?

Ohio State University had a class-changing bell when I was there in the 1960’s, and I think some colleges may still use them.

Run. Run fast…run far. RUN!!!

I have no creativity. Dropped this class.

Did most of the class already leave, giving up on it?.Note the shady background figures during last few days. They stand up and then leave.

“We all have our inspirations. This Throwback Thursday is from 1992 and the first time “Miss Manazon” appeared. Read the whole strip here: http://bit.ly/1BuTxNb "^I also noticed that!!! – I took it as one of three possibilities: (1) that it was an indication of how it’s s’posed to be pronounced or (2) Karen had a bit of a “sleepy finger” when she typed or (3) it was because it was originally one person but maybe ended up being two different characters in the end, much like the whole “Shannon vs. Lindy Lewis” thing….

:Oops, should be class bell, not calss bell."^I take your misspelling to be one of three things…..

I really hope Luann drops this class like a rock. Sadly, she probably won’t and will be stuck with a poor imitation of a teacher because she lacks enough self confidence these days to realize that when she feels scared, it’s for a good reason.-And if she sticks with the class, she’ll probably be stuck with that one-track-mind that the alleged teacher called ‘Mr. Jock’. Maybe that IS a good name for him, but not because he’s an athlete…

Oh, it’s a metaphor! I was momentarily worried Zebo would give them a parting pun. Whew!!

Ah, do I see life drawing on the horizon? ; )

Students Breaking Their Necks to DROP “Intro to ART!” Class, in 3, 2, 1…..,

Luann is thoroughly confused by by Zébo; he has triumphed over her. The Goth guy seems also to accept it. And Jock guy has only partially heard what was said. I’d say the faculty fraud has fully fleeced these lambs. They will all be back for the next class, though possibly Luann will be wary of volunteering in any way….

One of them should pee in a jar and put his picture in it and title it “Zebonatia.”

A lot of my community college classes were just a few people. Not art though. It was a packed room.

I love all the new characters! Once I left HS and went to college my life was full of new friends and I only kept up with a few of the old. I would have been disappointed if all the characters from HS all went to the same college and everything just carried on the same.

Sounds like a couple of the professors I had (Art Studio Major). It was all about Modern “Art” and I didn’t care a fig about MA, being much more impressed and inspired by the Old Masters and the Renaissance period.

Please, please, please, please, let’s never visit Col. Zebo’s class ever, ever again. And I hate to tell Prof. Gazebo that ‘creativizing’ is not a word.

Really interesting the way Evans portays Ox and this temporary “jock” character. Jock is dumb, Ox is just a little slow.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Prof. Zebo is “outed” as not having whatever degree(s) he put on his resume to get the job. He’s kind of reminding me of “Professor” Hill from the musical “The Music Man.”

Um, why on earth would they have an art appreciation class at a community college?

LOL! – And you have definitely known that struggle!

reactions vary

LOL, “Confuse-us” !!! And it’s “perfect” for him, too!

Glad to know you’re alright! This is shaping up to be one of those winters when everybody’s going to “pick up pitchforks”, looking for the weatherman. Not because of the forecasting of snow, but because of the fact that this winter is going to be one of those “unpredictable amounts and tracks” kind of winters….

" I wonder what sport he supposedly plays."-Wrestling

Eye really like the purple hat guy.

Naked babe . . . hmm . . . Will Luann get stripped for a nude model?

“wouldn’t that be a love quadrangle?” ^LOL, and that’s when you know “love is trouble”, when it starts turning into math equations and geometry…..

Which is Zébo?

I taught at a community college and yes, they did ring a bell to signal the end of class. Some older community colleges still have that system in place.

Well, Z was right, no one knows art the way he introduces it. I didn’t think an intro class was designed to make everyone an artist, but to teach them what art actually is.

Some new regular characters?

@ rusty gate

It wasn’t the good ole days of Fogerty & Blips, it was the good ol’ days of Fogarty and PHELPS! Blips is actually Ms. Blips, the skinny, plain-jane female army soldier in the comic strip, “Beetle Bailey.” Right now, Miss Buxley and Miss Blips are hanging out together, not Blips criticizing every sexy move Ms. Buxley does for the troops at Camp Swampy (This includes General Halftrack in a way!). If Ms. Phelps would try to flirt, all the men would probably get sick. Oh, and one more thing. Where did Mr. Evans give this instructor’s name, Zebo? It sounds like how a European cartoonist would call himself (Ex. Peyo).

Gregg is creativizing a new college experience for Luann..Much like Gunther, she needs some shaking up..Bernice may have been shaken up a bit already..Tiff needs it most of all — BADLY !

There is a sign behind ‘Jock’ that says —JOIN A CLUB.Maybe Luann will do so. I sure hope so. Living at home, a club would help her socially and mentally. .Her only hobby cannot be Quill..But what club would it be ??

“The next thing you know Luann will be in a love triangle with Quill!, Goth boy and Jock boy.”.Or at least a tetrahedron?

“So how do you teach an art class to students who have no artistic talent?”.And how do you know they don’t?I might be a great violinist if I ever try..I’m pretty sure Demi Moore and I could do pottery.Teaching people to realize what went into art is not the same as teaching them to be artistic.Watching Louise Mandrell change her instrument from a violin to a fiddle and back in the twinkling of an eye was art.Dr. Seus looked silly but was art.The Chrysler Building is art.King Kong was art.Good writing is art.(Bad writing is also art, but bad art.).Luann can sing and tell stories. That is artistry.Gunther can create clothes, some of which are quite ugly.There is the art of the deal, creating agreements among differing parties.Party planning is an art — as seen best by how it is done badly.Good art often looks easy.Bad art often looks tortured and/or tortuous.Teaching a class in such a way that students learn rather than sleep is an art.Properly cleaning a toilet is an art.Most human endeavour has some degree of art in it, some good, some bad.

“Don’t forget strategerize…”.And yet I INTEND to.

I hope that’s the last we see of Zebo.

Thr trouble with this kind of art education is like when students show up for French class and the teacher says “ok, just be creative… All of you start speaking French”. There are rules to learning art that most everyone can grasp if they are only instructed properly.

@IamJayBluEThomas Crapper died in 1910 so if he shows up, we gots BIG problems. Up his creek without a ballcock, over the hole without his manhole cover.

I think Evans made a typo. It should be ZERO, not ZEBO.

" Our city of Dover, NH, got the most snow in the county (30.5 inches)."-We got 35" in our town in MA. Worcester got 36".

Oh, I will kindly weigh in…“Goth” is Emo. A little Emo… Possibly with a bit of skater thrown in. My observations. Too much sullen/non-expression, not enough scary…But, that’s only me trying to guess at stereotypical dress. I could be completely wrong.

Prof. Zebo…An affected caricature of an interesting cross between a 1950’s film director, a lounge lizard, and a very stylish dentist. Perhaps artist…?Is he in his 60’s, or is he a much younger, hipster type? ??? Any thoughts on his age? Perhaps his garb and persona are part of the lesson. He is trying to get these dewy, naive students out of their non-creative selves. What if next class he comes dressed completely differently? Like a beatnik, perhaps, all in black, smelling of clove cigarettes?Or, as an average guy?I’m mildly interested in what comes next… Telling myself, it’s a comic! It’s a comic….Not real life…

Wow, Zebo is great!

Ooooh. A bell. And years before the Tara strip.