Thursday, August 24, 2017

Project 1 - Autobiographical/Memoir Comic

IL320/Comics 2: Developing Story and Character

Project 1 – Autobiographical/Memoir Comic

Begin by composing a list of twenty ideas for your comic. Some examples might be:
-        Your Happiest Memory
-        Your Worst Memory
-        Your First Love
-        Your First Heartbreak
-        Your Worst Experience at the Dentist

Examples of autobiography/memoir comics, as well as examples of handmade comics, will be available to examine and read in class on 8/24. Research the selection of cartoonists on the list provided on the second page and read some of their comics. Consider the techniques, formats, and design of these books and draw inspiration for your own project.

Select your best idea and develop it as a four to six-page comic. Additional pages are acceptable as long as the comic is completed by the scheduled due date. Different cartoonists have different processes for creating comics. Some begin with scripts and then do thumbnail sketches for their pages while others begin with sketches and write later. There will be a demonstration of a detailed process that begins with a short story broken down into bullet points, which are broken down into page descriptions that are expanded into a working script. Thumbnail sketches are created, revised, and enlarged for the final art.

The media, techniques, format, and dimensions are up to you, but you will be expected to print and assemble multiple handmade copies. There will be a demonstration on laying out pages, printing, and assembling handmade books on 9/14. Digital files must be placed in the Project 1 folder within the IL320 class folder on the dali server by 2:00 on 9/26. Each student will be paired with a classmate and responsible for cross-preparing each other’s comic for critique on 9/28. In addition to leading the critique of their partner’s comic, each student is expected to read all of the completed Project 1 comics on the server before critique.

In addition to submitting digital files for your finished comic pages, you are also required to submit digital copies of your notes, sketches, and other visual development work for your comic.




Autobiography and Memoir Cartoonists List

Lucy Knisley – Radiator Days, Relish: My Life In The Kitchen, Something New, French Milk, and others.

Thi Bui – The Best We Could Do

GB Tran – Vietnamerica

Trinidad Escobar - Crushed

MariNaomi – Kiss and Tell, Dragon’s Breath, Turning Japanese

Harvey Pekar – American Splendor, The Quitter

Alison Bechdel – Fun Home, Are You My Mother

John Lewis – March

Mimi Pond – The Customer Is Always Wrong

Lynda Barry – Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor, One! Hundred! Demons!

David Kelly – Rainy Day Recess

Craig Thompson – Blankets

Nicole Georges – Fetch, Calling Doctor Laura

Ashanti Fortson – I’m Not a Robot

Maia Kobabe – Genderqueer

Asaf Hanuka – The Realist


Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis

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