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Do not print 500 copies immediately. Draw one strip. Show it to a friend. Show it to the teacher you just made fun of. If they laugh with you (and not at you), you have a hit. If they cry or call your parents, go back to the drawing board.

Furthermore, the Class Comic serves as a . High school is a pressure cooker of expectations, hormones, and standardized tests. Laughter is the release of that pressure. When you see a drawing of the chemistry lab exploding in a cartoonish cloud of green smoke, you laugh because you feel the anxiety of the upcoming final. Class Comic

The Class Comic is more than a joke. It is a diary disguised as a doodle. It is the first time many of us learn that the world is absurd, and the only sane response is to draw a funny face on it. Do not print 500 copies immediately

Unlike the sanitized, administrator-approved pages of the yearbook, the Class Comic is raw. It is the unfiltered id of the student body. It features inside jokes that only the 200 students in your graduating class would understand. It strips away the polite fiction that high school is a perfectly harmonious place and reveals the absurdity: the principal’s toupee, the cafeteria mystery meat, the history teacher who says "um" thirty times a period. Show it to the teacher you just made fun of

The best Class Comics have continuity. Perhaps it’s a running tally of how many times Mr. Henderson has fallen asleep during detention duty, or a zombie version of the school mascot that appears in the corner of every panel. Consistency builds a mythology that only the "in-group" understands.