Our show is one week from today! Hopefully the snow we received today will be gone by then…
Check out our Facebook event for all the info!
In my ongoing quest for the perfect framework for understanding haters, I created The Disapproval Matrix**. (With a deep bow to its inspiration.) This is one way to separate haterade from productive feedback. Here’s how the quadrants break down:
Critics: These are smart people who know something about your field. They are taking a hard look at your work and are not loving it. You’ll probably want to listen to what they have to say, and make some adjustments to your work based on their thoughtful comments.
Lovers: These people are invested in you and are also giving you negative but rational feedback because they want you to improve. Listen to them, too.
Frenemies: Ooooh, this quadrant is tricky. These people really know how to hurt you, because they know you personally or know your work pretty well. But at the end of the day, their criticism is not actually about your work—it’s about you personally. And they aren’t actually interested in a productive conversation that will result in you becoming better at what you do. They just wanna undermine you. Dishonorable mention goes to The Hater Within, aka the irrational voice inside you that says you suck, which usually falls into this quadrant. Tell all of these fools to sit down and shut up.
Haters: This is your garden-variety, often anonymous troll who wants to tear down everything about you for no rational reason. Folks in this quadrant are easy to write off because they’re counterproductive and you don’t even know them. Ignore! Engaging won’t make you any better at what you do. And then rest easy, because having haters is proof your work is finding a wide audience and is sparking conversation. Own it.
The general rule of thumb? When you receive negative feedback that falls into one of the top two quadrants—from experts or people who care about you who are engaging with and rationally critiquing your work—you should probably take their comments to heart. When you receive negative feedback that falls into the bottom two quadrants, you should just let it roll off your back and just keep doin’ you. If you need to amp yourself up about it, may I suggest this #BYEHATER playlist on Spotify? You’re welcome.
** I presented The Disapproval Matrix to the fine folks at MoxieCon in Chicago yesterday, and they seemed to find it useful, so I figured I’d share with the class. It was originally inspired by a question my friend Channing Kennedy submitted to my #Realtalk column at the Columbia Journalism Review.
Our comics visiting artist for Spring 2013, Tyler Page, will be visiting campus tomorrow Wednesday 17th.
Tyler is the Xeric award winning author of graphic novels Stylish Vittles, Nothing Better, and the upcoming drawn memoir Raised on Ritalin.
He will be critiquing in Comics, Animation, and Entertainment Design Senior Seminar during the day and will be presenting his own work at 6:30 pm in Jarvis Hall-Sci Wing RM 112.
After the lecture there will be a signing of his work and of the student mini comic anthology in
the lobby of Micheels (in front of the Furlong Gallery). Proceeds from sales of the student comics will go toward bringing in more visiting artists.
Please come out and support Comics @UW Stout!
UW Stout comics students drawing a 20 by 40 foot outdoor chalk comic about a giraffe delivering milk, being chased by a vicious dog, that chase being interrupted by a parachuting waffle, and then the waffle being eaten by the dog and the giraffe- which was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, but not for the waffle.
I guess you had to be there. We were there. It was awesome.
Hooray for spring and hooray for the hilarious comics students at UW Stout!
Check out my students- they’re great!
spx:
Never not reblogging the Michael Kupperman.
Wish I’d bought the Desert Island print when I had the chance.
a classic
Yes. Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vol. 2 is out now!
(Source: amillionbugs, via rosebudskud)
Entertainment Design Student work @UW Stout- Stop Motion Animation: Annie Hall
Entertainment Design Student work @UW Stout- Stop Motion Animation: Moonrise Kingdom
