Month: October 2024

When I turned my literacy narrative into a comic, a lot of things changed. The comic unintentionally became a reflective book that analyzes how my identity affects the way that I read. I was expecting myself to write a chronological story about my experience with literature, but that was not the way my story turned […]

This post serves as an introduction to my tracing pages project and hopes to give you an idea of what to expect from my work. If you don’t want to read many words, here is the gist: David Smalls and Tillie Walden both use techniques to slow time and capture life-defining moments, but while Smalls […]

My comic plays on the double meaning of a “black diamond” run. Most people recognize the black diamond as a symbol of a difficult ski slope, but in my comic, it’s a literal black diamond at the end of the run! I spent a lot of time developing both the idea and the artwork, and […]

Turning my literacy narrative into a comic shifted my perspective and emphasized the power of visual storytelling to capture emotions in simpler, yet impactful ways. Writing the narrative allowed me to immerse myself in sensory details, but the comic forced me to distill these memories into images, that could convey the same emotions better. Thinking […]

Tracing and annotating pages from Stitches and Spinning was an interesting experience that pushed me to engage deeply with the authors’ storytelling techniques. By focusing on how David Small and Tillie Walden used elements like facial expressions, body language, and layouts, I could appreciate the subtle ways they convey trauma and isolation. Tracing revealed how […]

Reflecting on my Literacy Narrative was a nostalgic journey that deepened my appreciation for how family shaped my love for language. My writing process began with freewriting, which felt unfamiliar, as I’m used to organizing my thoughts first. But allowing myself to record memories freely brought a natural flow to my writing, revealing details like […]