Category: Student Posts 31

Tracing the pages from Stitches and Spinning proved very different from what I was usually asked to do in English class. It forced me to ponder the power comics bring to sharing ideas and knowledge in real-time. By tracing Stitches, I realized how much information and emotion could be conveyed in a single page, despite […]

I watched a documentary about colonialization this weekend and the idea for a Quadriptych on British Raj popped into my head. I would use comedy to expose the “weirdness” (for a lack of better words) of colonialism underlying its violent nature. Here is the result of my work: My comic utilized a rather simple design: […]

For this assignment, I analyzed how both authors used artistic patterns to enhance how they felt about trauma and growing up voiceless, figuratively or literally. But with their resilience and the healing power of comics, the authors found their voice and empowerment by the end of their books. Annotating my traced pages for this assignment […]

Illustrating and writing this comic proved to be a difficult task. In the beginning, I would often open a blank sketchbook page and stare at it, having no idea where to start. Due to this struggle, I felt slightly overwhelmed with the whole process, which caused me to avoid this assignment for a short time […]

The thesis of my comparison essay on Spinning and Stitches is: shades and arrangement of panels depict the struggles of David and Tillie but reveal the selfishness of parents in the memoirs therefore make readers empathize with author’s childhood experience while reflecting on the responsibility of parenthood. In the essay I discuss the parent-child relationship […]

The use of shades in the two pages I traced from Spinning and Stitches are worth noticing. On the panel presented in page 288 from Stitches, the portrait of protagonist David is presented with a direct eye level camera angle. The panel is David’s reaction towards his father’s confession for giving him cancer when his […]

This part of the Literacy Narrative assignment was both enjoyable and insightful. Upon producing my storyboard, the feedback I received and the other work I saw really helped me finalize my product. Even though I had already created a storyboard, the drafting process was still difficult. I ended up drafting my pages multiple times. Writing […]