Nathan Hayward’s “College Scenes”, 1850: Freshman Year
For our final week (this year) of comics created by college students — in salute to those headed Back-to-School (and those happy they are) — we present a second 1850-published sequential comic book, College Scenes, by Harvard University student Nathan Hayward.
Like the William Peters’ circa 1850 Yale comic Ichabod Academicus, Hayward broke College Scenes into four chapters, one each for Freshman through Senior years. Below is Hayward’s Freshman Year. The art and story-telling in Scenes is cruder than Academicus, but Hayward manages to scores points as well, most notably with his more frightening depiction of hazing, for which Hayward’s art style is more appropriate. Beneath, left and right, are the front & back covers of College Scenes.
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Like Ichabod Academicus, Chapter Two (Sophomore Year) of College Scenes, will appear next year at this time! This concludes our Back-to-School college comics for 2010. Click Here to find prior postings of college student comic books.
Next Monday — something new!
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— Doug
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