{"id":13323,"date":"2017-02-01T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=13323"},"modified":"2017-02-08T11:03:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T19:03:16","slug":"camosun-college-student-comics-club-welcomes-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/02\/01\/camosun-college-student-comics-club-welcomes-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun College student Comics Club welcomes all"},"content":{"rendered":"

With superhero movies everywhere, video games becoming more mainstream, and general nerd lifestyle becoming popular through mass media, it\u2019s no surprise that comic books are making a huge surge in popularity. Even Camosun has jumped on this and has a program dedicated to graphic novel and comic book design.<\/p>\n

There is now also a comic book club started by the students in the program.<\/p>\n

The club accepts everyone as members, no matter if they\u2019re in the Comics and Graphic Novels program or not, or if they can draw or not. One of the organizers of the Comics Club, Audrey Greenlees, says that more goes on in the club than just their program work.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe get together and talk about the latest things we\u2019ve been reading and the animes people are watching,\u201d she says. \u201cLast semester, things were really casual. This semester, we\u2019ve been trying to get fundraising started. We\u2019re hoping to contribute toward the Camosun Comic Arts Festival that\u2019s happening in April.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun College Comics Club organizer Audrey Greenlees (photo by Jill Westby\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some feel that people are born with a natural talent to draw, paint, or sculpt. Greenlees says that while she had a little talent before she came to college, the program at Camosun has helped her to refine her ability.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first started at Camosun I was a creative writing student,\u201d she says. \u201cI found that although through writing I could be very descriptive, [my ideas] never came out quite right on the page with just words. I just started to take my drawing ability and mash them all together. Many of the other club members have similar stories; they come because of their love of video games or comic books.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fellow club and program member Lorysa Fernandez says that she\u2019d love to see more people who are interested in comic design take a chance and try out the program and the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are so many people that I\u2019ve met and as soon as I say what program I\u2019m in, they sound so interested, but then they say that they can\u2019t draw,\u201d says Fernandez. \u201cThe truth is, not everyone can draw, but I\u2019ve seen some great storytellers who\u2019ve figured out how to get their story across and work around that. We really hate the notion that art is a natural born talent, because that\u2019s not true. It\u2019s a skill, and we definitely want to show people if you want to learn how to draw, just start.\u201d<\/p>\n

Being one of the leaders of the club doesn\u2019t come without its responsibilities for Greenlees. The transition from easy club days to fundraising has been quite the change for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeading the club is a lot of cat herding,\u201d she says. \u201cLast semester was a little more casual. This semester I\u2019m starting to jump through a lot more hoops to get things done, and that\u2019s proving to be a little bit of a learning curve. Other than that, it\u2019s not too much different from being a regular member, just a few more papers to read.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fernandez says that she feels that the emphasis on sharing ideas and working together on projects brings a valuable dynamic to comic design that she wouldn\u2019t be able to get if she were to work on her ideas by herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to look at something you don\u2019t like and say, \u2018I hate you, you\u2019re going into a lock box, I\u2019ll pull you out in three years when I decide I don\u2019t hate you anymore.\u2019 You can\u2019t do that when you\u2019re collaborating; the other person is relying on your part of the work. Collaborating is one of the most important parts of this, and why I would say that being in the environment of like-minded people helps a lot. I already know I want to do some animation work with a couple of others once we are done the program.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With superhero movies everywhere, video games becoming more mainstream, and general nerd lifestyle becoming popular through mass media, it\u2019s no surprise that comic books are making a huge surge in popularity. Even Camosun has jumped on this and has a program dedicated to graphic novel and comic book design. There is now also a comic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-february-1-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13326,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13323\/revisions\/13326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}