Art School Confidential (comics)

"Art School Confidential" is a four-page black-and-white comic by Daniel Clowes.

The comic is a satire of American art schools, presented in the manner of a sensationalistic exposé and ostensibly based on Clowes' own experiences at the Pratt Institute.

The story took on a life of its own for a while.… People would Xerox it and put it up on the bulletin board at school.

There were rumors that it had been Xeroxed so many times that nobody could discern the art style anymore.

[1]The "tampon-in-a-teacup trick" referred to in "Art School Confidential" appeared in the 2001 film version of Clowes's graphic novel Ghost World.