The Secret Language of Comics

Sketch 11: Assemblies

For this assigment, I decided to create a diagram of the various functions of specfic parts of the heart, linking them to components I have learned through the semester. Left Atrium: The left atrium symbolizes the intake of resources and information that “energized” my learning process. Just like oxygenated blood enters this chamber in the […]

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Sketch 10: Mix Tape

The mixtape I have put together approaches a rhetorical situation surrounding the concept of love; more specifically, discovering one’s own capacity to love while simultaneously in a destructive relationship that twists passion and hope into an obscure and perverse amalgamation of pain, driving the protaganist into delirium and insanity. Throughout the playlist, the protaganist is […]

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Halfa Kucha Reflection

Overall, the halfa Kucha presentation was a difficult process. I found it quite difficult to present a compelling argument when given only 20 seconds to deeply anaylze the tramau shown on a page. Writing an essay would allow me to have deeper anaylsis compared to giving a fast paced presentation. The sturcutre of my presentation […]

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Reflection Post: Tracing Stitches and Spinning

The thesis of my essay argued how isolation and loneliness represented both characters in the graphic memoirs, but the source of their isolation was very different; however, through this isolation, both protagonists experienced immense personal growth, despite their adolescent trauma. Although both individuals felt alienated, Tillie by her sexuality and David by the growth, they […]

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