This task took a lot of deliberation on my part. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go with something light and simple, or difficult subject matter. As you can see I went difficult. The idea came to me in class, and I was struggling to decide whether my drawing skills would be good enough to tackle it. This issue has deeply affected me personally and I really wanted to bring it justice.
I took 4 hours to plan, draw, trace, and color this comic. I decided to go subject to subject for my panel transitions and I think that worked very well in this case. I wish I was more adept at drawing people and could have added more real to life depictions of the march and other panels. I think I took a risk with the layout of my panels being read in a circular motion, but it was important to me to show the cycle and the chains that surround it. I chose to add one word to the comic in the form of “Bill” as I thought it was necessary to clarify the nature of the document.
The pulse logo in the center is there because that is the shooting that started the ongoing discussion we have now, and it is the one that affected me the most. Their are 17 candles in the vigils/memorial panel to represent the 17 that died at MSD because that shooting affected my friends and then impacted me as well.
