Letters & Opinion
Five Years of Rabble Rousers
Comics Editor
After a five-year run, it’s time for me to end “Rabble Rousers” and “Little Cynics” and graduate. I started “Rabble Rousers” (then “Resident’s EviL”) in the Fall of 2004 and became Comics Editor the next year. I haven’t missed a week of “The Pointer” since. Five years and a changed double-major later, I still don’t want it to end.
It was hard to find a way to close the comic. Andre and Aria have changed a lot since their “dots for eyes, mittens for hands” beginning. The story didn’t always go as planned (Aria and Andre were supposed to get together in my sophomore year, for example), but I’ve had a great time finding my way to the end. For the record, I am NOT Aria, even though she looks like me.
Thank you to everyone who has followed the story over the years, and to “Little Cynics” fans, too. I hope you enjoyed my comics as much as I have.
Thanks to Pat Rothfuss and B.J. Hiorns, because without them, I probably wouldn’t have gotten involved in the Comics page. Thanks to DusTin, Bryan, John and everyone who submitted a weekly comic over the last four years. Thanks to editors Liz Bolton, Steve Roeland, Sarah Suchy and Katie Leb, to everyone who sat through my “how to understand comics” lecture in Professor Robert Sirabian’s class, and to everyone in the departments of music, art & design and English who inspired a character or weekly strip.
If you’re interested in drawing a comic next year, e-mail Dustin Hauge at dhaug541@uwsp.edu . Dustin, I wish you luck in taking over the page. You’re hilarious.
To everyone who stopped me to say, “Hey! Aren’t you that girl who does that comic in “The Pointer?,” thanks. You really made my day.
