The Secret Language of Comics

SK5 Marathon with Queen

My friends and I have been watching the Harry Potter series with a dog named Queen. She has a nasty habit of wanting to sit on people, and she does so quite abruptly. I think the panels being almost identical except for the scene of the movie changing and Queen changing her attention captures how […]

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SK4 14 v 15

These are two images of the same location (St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands) taken by my boyfriend, Daniel Wodkins, and me. He has an iPhone 15 pro max and I have an iPhone 14 pro. We both took photos of the view at the same time, but ended up with entirely different color compositions. […]

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CNN Visual Notes

I usually doodle or draw as I take notes. Sometimes the doodles are related to the notes and sometimes they are just random drawings. I like to visualize processes in flow charts, and I like to use pictures to digest information. Some of the drawings/depictions in this visual note taking were already on my original […]

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Literacy Comic Reflection

It was easier for me to write my literacy essay as a comic rather than an essay. I tend to write in a concise manner; writing a comic allowed the reader to fill in the gutters, and I could include just the important parts of the story. I don’t have to add every detail or […]

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Baking Conundrum

Over the fall break, I made brownies with my boyfriend. Like every time I bake, I run into issues with determining how long to leave the food in the oven. The box is never any help. I thought it would be cute to play with my own struggles with…

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School of Fish

I was eating Flavor Blaster Goldfish in my room with friends around. I was thinking about what I should use for my second sketch, and I thought about how I like Goldfish. I thought it would be cute to make a little school of fish under water. I added a few other sea creatures, seaweed, […]

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Butterfly Avatar

This is an original piece of art drawn on my iPad. I chose to draw a butterfly because they are beautiful. I also enjoy the color pink; I find it calming. The doodle in the bottom left corner is an addition from my roommate, Meiya Weeks.

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Reflection of Tracing

This was a long process. I felt like I spent forever on this assignment. The tracing an annotating didn’t feel like an eternity, but structuring and re-structuring and finalizing the analyzing essay did. I had plenty of thoughts about comparing the two pages, but finding a collective argument and using the ABT format was brutal. […]

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