I am all for the iPad, but trust me - smelling it will get you nowhere.
If you intend to die, you can do anything.
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.
Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.
Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.
I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.