Understanding this comic |
International Relations Issues is a multi-disciplinary web-comic of mostly true, satirical observations of a world crying for peace.
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If you don’t understand this comic, you’re probably not a liberal arts major, or you’re not old enough.
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For the non-liberal arts readers, if I feel like it, I’ll paste links and info with some of the comics which refer to specific events or theories. For the rest of you, do your class readings and stop watching the news.
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Why make the comics? |
Most of the study is learning of all the crap going on the world that you can’t fix. It’s exhausting so needs to be taken a little less seriously. So does university assessment for that matter. I used the comics once in my PowerPoint presentations (I lost 5% for it being a distraction), so I blogged them, where hopefully, I will not lose marks. That, and I don’t give enough presentations to show off all the comics (just imagine me lecturing as you read).
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Who are the dudes? |
International Relations (IR) dude and Sociologist dude. I’m not always consistent with the upper and lower case in my comic sentences. Sorry. They’re mostly done on the drink.
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Define International Relations (IR) : the study of foreign affairs and global issues. It includes all players in the globalization arena such as states (nations), IGOs, NGOs, MNCs (also TNCs). It is both academic and public policy and considered a branch of political science.
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Define Sociology : the study of human societies. A branch of social science, which primarily uses systematic methodology based research to build and refine the body of knowledge about the human social structures on micro and macro levels.
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Who are you? |
I’m the stick figure dude (I often forget to put him in - this on as well I just noticed). I’m currently at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) studying International Relations. Not sure why I study IR; mostly I can’t even figure out my housemates.
Why do you have housemates then?
Because I’m not married
Well, why aren’t you married?
Dude, I can’t even understand my housemates!
How can I contact you?
I’m not famous. Why would you want to?
Usage |
Not-for-profit organizations; Yes Please! Link back. For profit outfits or more than three, please request permission. I’ll probably say yes.