Kim Allman is the Charlotte Law Library Access Services Manager and Anthony Aycock is Library Director of the North Carolina Justice Academy.
Check out the other installments of Murphy’s Law School Returns here.
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Murphy’s Law School Returns – Issue 6
Kim Allman is the Charlotte Law Library Access Services Manager and Anthony Aycock is Library Director of the North Carolina Justice Academy.
Check out the other installments of Murphy’s Law School Returns here.
Murphy’s Law School Returns – Issue 5
Kim Allman is the Charlotte Law Library Access Services Manager and Anthony Aycock is Library Director of the North Carolina Justice Academy.
Check out the other installments of Murphy’s Law School Returns here.
Murphy’s Law School Returns – Issue 4
Kim Allman is the Charlotte Law Library Access Services Manager and Anthony Aycock is Library Director of the North Carolina Justice Academy.
Check out the other installments of Murphy’s Law School Returns here.
Murphy’s Law School Returns – Issue 3
Kim Allman is the Charlotte Law Library Access Services Manager and Anthony Aycock is Library Director of the North Carolina Justice Academy.
Check out the other installments of Murphy’s Law School Returns here.
Murphy’s Law School Returns – Part 2
Kim Allman is the Charlotte Law Library Access Services Manager and Anthony Aycock is Library Director of the North Carolina Justice Academy.
Check out the first installment of Murphy’s Law School Returns here.
Murphy’s Law School Returns
by Aycock and Allman
First, a little history…
Long ago when dinosaurs ruled the earth, Kim Allman had aspirations to be a comic book artist. He did flirt with that medium for a time but other responsibilities led him on a slightly different path. He has earned his living over time as a caricaturist, an illustrator, and a designer. Art is a tough business however, and becoming a paralegal and eventually ending up as the circulation manager for the Law Library of the Charlotte School of Law has proven a far more stable way to make a living. He has never given up on his passion for cartooning and Murphy’s Law School is one way for him to indulge that muse. Anthony and he both hope to bring you regular installments of an entire host of odd ball characters. You might even recognize some of them.
Anthony Aycock is currently the library director at the North Carolina Justice Academy, a criminal justice training facility. He helped start the Charlotte School of Law Library in 2006 and served as its director of public services until 2009. He is also a writer, having published essays in The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Georgia Review, Creative Nonfiction, and Library Journal.
Anthony and Kim Allman created the first comic strip in 2008. Inspired by such strips as The Far Side, Doonesbury, and Calvin and Hobbes, the strip, called Inter Alia, aimed to ease the stress of law school life by dramatizing its absurdities. It was published in the student newsletter.
The strip soon became a regular feature in the monthly newsletter. Tom Hemstock, another Charlotte Law librarian, soon joined Anthony as a writer for the strip. When Anthony and Tom created the library blog, the strip, now re-named Murphy’s Law School, found its new home. As the strip progressed, several characters made recurring appearances, including Charlotte the Beagle, Spike the Hedgehog, and Professor Alexander Hamilton.
When Tom and Anthony left in 2009, the strip was discontinued, but now he and Kim have revived it for a new cadre of Charlotte Law students and faculty. Enjoy!
The (belated) One Year Anniversary of the Charlotte Law Library Blog
March 2008. It was a simpler time. George W. Bush was still president. AIG, General Motors and Chrysler all were solvent. The housing bubble still. . . bubbled. Amidst these distant events the Charlotte Law Library Blog burst onto the blogosphere.
Today’s highlight is Charlotte Law Library’s Murphy’s Law School Comic:
First comic. An early non-anthropomorphic Charlotte can be seen. The generic “librarian” bears an uncanny resemble to our Reference Librarian.
Second comic. First appearance of Spike the hedgehog. No one seems to notice that Spike walks, talks, and quips. Darth Vader also makes a cameo appearance.
Third comic. Hilarity ensues as Spike discusses torts.
Fourth comic. The first (and only) appearance of the Tech Wizards.
Fifth comic. Humorous look at law school exam stress.
Sixth comic. Wherein we mock the entire state of Montana. Sorry!
Additionally, many of our viewers were also interested in the graphics used in our posts. (Specifically “cartoon suns”). I will not craft posts that include the word “cartoon suns” to inflate hits. Cartoon suns.
-Tom Hemstock-
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Thinking that the North Carolina Bar exam is hard????
Attention bar studiers –
Thinking that the North Carolina bar is hard?
It could be worse. Much worse.
Montana requires bar takers to successfully capture a moose.
(Just kidding! Apologies to Montana.)
- Murphy’s Law School Comic-
-Written by Tom Hemstock-
-Picture by Kim Allman-
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Today in National Military Appreciation Month…
Did you know that today in 1945 ( World War II) US Army troops liberated the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria?
On a side note, today is also National Cartoonists Day.
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