Grad School?! YOU BASTARDS!

well- in the eternal pursuit (it feels like) of trying to make 'fine art' I am continuing with the larger-format comic style drawings- to summarize my problems with graduate school:

Are comics considered 'fine art'?
What is the difference between fine art and illustration?
At what point do comics become fine art?
What processes and imagery ca I make to portray this fine art to impress admissions boards?

here is the newest one- the process it is taking. In addition the whole idea behind this- is it is one of a series that glorifies or at least portrays a theme that media companies use to grab our emotions and get us to enjoy their media. This one is violence. but perhaps they don't need to be that limiting- and I should just throw in generic imagery, but then I run a risk of the art being mis-read... so for now ill try and limit the scope to generalities and obvious messages.





I work like 12 hours today-that is dishwashing and bartending- NOT drawing- so hopefully I'll be able to work some more on this- and perhaps show you all the blue-pencil work for my next water-color style piece (see a couple posts below).