“When every man is torn apart/With nightmares and with dreams/Will no one lay the laurel wreath/When silence drowns the screams”-Epitaph, King Crimson

Hi everybody! In our most recent Humanities project, we made a comic book about WWI. Let me tell you about it.

To begin the project, we watched documentaries and the movie 1917, which was very good. To introduce us to the idea of a WWI comic, we read “The War to End all Wars: World War One 1914-1918” After learning more about WWI, we were tasked with picking topics that interested us. I chose the Battle of Hooge, a relatively unknown battle.

Hooge is a small, peaceful village around 3 miles east of Ypres; in 1915, however, this was not the case. The town was effectively obliterated, and British and German forces dug in. On July 30th, German forces commenced the first flamethrower attack on the British, and as a result captured the town.

For my comic book, I focused on a Canadian and German soldier. I thought it would also be interesting to focus on a German perspective as well, because we don’t see that too often in Canadian media.

Actually making the comic book was pretty time consuming. Because I’m not good at drawing, I had to trace all of my drawings. I decided not to draw faces until the last couple panels, representing that after their ordeal they see each other as more human. Also, I’m not good at drawing faces. We didn’t have too much time to finish the comic, which was a bit stressful, but I was confident that I could create a finished version.

The Spring Exhibition was chaotic and disorganized. Because we were only presenting in the cafeteria instead of the PLP rooms, nobody knew where to meet or where to set up. The actual presenting went well, but if I could change something about it, would be that we should have started our comics earlier to have more time to work on props.

Overall, WWI-Con was a good project; interesting yet unique.

Ok, bye!