Competition attracts future grants, jump starts research and student careers by Natasha Kassulke
UW–Madison faculty and staff recipients of Fall Research Competition awards say they are thankful for the funding to help them acquire the resources they need to engage in their research. But perhaps most important, they say, is the student support they are able to...
UW Making Comics course promotes creativity, self-expression through art and writing by Kayla Huynh
In a UW–Madison art course, students named ‘Hamlet,’ ‘Hello Kitty’ and ‘George Washington’ all can be found. As one of the first tasks of Art 448: Making Comics, students must choose a pseudonym to go by. Though students are known by these pseudonyms throughout the...
Hooked on Comics by Kurt Anthony Krug, Illustration by Jeff Butler
Jeff Butler x’18 has always loved the company of superheroes, starting with Batman and Bart Starr. As a kid, he devoured comics. He read them over and over, studying the art. His mother, Bonnie, was convinced reading anything was a good thing and encouraged her...