Using Comic Strips in Presentations

• On 30-Apr-08, at 9:48 AM, Barbara McDonald wrote:
  • Colleagues, I just found out that Dilbert comics are now open access. Great material here for presentations, especially if you’re like me and not so hot as a stand-up.  The story is below, and the Dilbert site is:
  • http://www.dilbert.com/strips/
  • I also like New Yorker cartoons and have looked at using their cartoonbank:
  • http://www.cartoonbank.com/?affiliate=ny-cbanimation
  • ($14.95 for a presentation download) but never actually done it.
  • Anyone else got ideas/favourite humour sources?
• Karen Nicholson wrote:
  • Teachable Moments sometimes has good ones:
  • http://www.insidehighered.com/views/teachable_moments/cartoon0425
• Krista Godfrey wrote:
  • I’ve used the Unshelved comics before – the library vs. internet parody is great.
  • http://www.unshelved.com/
• Open access and comic strips
  • Johnson, Steve. Think you’re funnier than Scott Adams? Chicago Tribune, April 29, 2008.
  • http://tinyurl.com/6ldrdx
  • Introduction: “In Scott Adams’ reading of the Internet, you either ride the train or it runs you over. So with the new iteration of his “Dilbert” Web site, Adams is making every “Dilbert” ever made freely available…and has introduced a new feature that lets readers craft their own, last-panel punch lines.”
    And…
    “I guess you could say we’re embracing the realities of intellectual property on the Internet,” Adams said. “I don’t want the best choices people have for ‘Dilbert’ to be bookstores or illegal downloads”.

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