Friendships Ruined Due to Argument Over Ownership of Leftover Pizza BASED UPON A TRUE STORY DEPT. (MILKBANK 44, DUH) Though the end of the school year is in sight, arguments between the six residents of Milbank 44 have reached new levels, and passive aggressiveness has given way to outright shanking. According to Chris Finch ’11,…
Author: jgrebes
Mr. ’12 (The Sequel)
Mr. ’13, the weekly comic strip I did in college lives on as a column for the Stamford Patch. The titular character has been aged up a year so that the comic is now about post-grad life and job search. I’m writing what I know. It’s updated every couple of weeks.
Root Preschoolers Violate Hamilton’s Honor Code, Amass Points
Time-Outs and No Recess Expected Seen Not Heard Dept. (ROOT DORM) Scandal erupted this week when Campus Police cracked down on violations of school policy committed by students of the Clinton Early Learning Center located in Root Dormitory. “We we’re stunned at the amount of debauchery that goes on at the preschool,” said director of…
Drunken Students Steal the Library
Quote: “If It Isn’t FIRMLY Bolted To The Ground, it is Free For the Taking.” COLLEGE IS A SCAVENGER HUNT DEPT. (FORMER SITE OF THE LIBRARY) Students and faculty alike awoke last Sunday morning to find that the Burke Library, a longstanding fixture and eyesore on campus, had been stolen. The culprits were found to…
More art to come
I am in the process of photographing the rest of my pieces from the Senior Art Show so that I can upload them to this website. Expect them shortly.
MAD 20 – Tiger Mom
Every year MAD does a countdown of the 20 dumbest things of the past 365 days. This past year one of the topics MAD had singled out as being worthy of mocking was Amy Chua, the Tiger Mom. I came up with an idea that recast the Tiger Mom as a communist Chinese propaganda poster….
The Idiotical
MAD Magazine started its online blog, the aptly named Idiotical about a month before my internship started. I wrote or helped write several pieces that were published on the blog, usually a satirical take on a current news story. Here are some of the best Idiotical pieces I helped create. Alex Trebek Security System –…
What Did You Honestly Expect?
King Midas and the Golden Touch
This was one of the more intricate pieces I did for the Senior Art Show, a comic retelling of the myth of King Midas. Painted with gouache, gold ink and black ink outlining, it won a best-in-show prize, and was bought by the school. At 30″ by 20″, the piece was too big to get…
Inadvertent Power and Passive Culture in the Middle East: The Role of Western Popular Culture on United States – Iran relations
This was my senior thesis for my government major, examining what role American popular culture plays on Iranian perceptions of the United States. The United States is the central player on the international stage, and while it exports less and less industry, more and more American culture is being shipped overseas. It has become the…