Hello and welcome back to another exhibition blog post!
His best friend was shot! He stopped down to check on him but his friend told him to keep going. He pushed on mourning the loss of his friend.
World War 1 was gruesome and confusing, and I’m not exactly a history buff. Although I do love learning about my ancestors and the cultures I came from. Though our nationalism project for the winter exhibition I learned about my Irish roots, and through this project I learned about one of my ancestors in particular. From Scotland, my great grandpa Dugald Smith! Dugald Smith, father of my Gran Mary Hanson, had signed up when he was 18 in 1914 to fight in the war for Scotland under the British troops. He was sent to the battle of the Somme in France in July 1916.
Our driving question was “How can I create a comic that accurately depicts an event from WWI?” To start off this process we learned a little bit about WW1 and also all of the different parts of a comic. After being told that our final assignment would be a 20 panel comic on a WW1 related topic, I asked my mum if we had any ancestors in WW1 because I thought I remembered her mentioning one once. She told me about my Great Grandpa and his awesome story, and so I decided I would dedicate my comic to him! Then we were assigned to build a story board of what we wanted our comics to look like. Here’s what I made:
The actual exhibition was pretty fun, but probably my least favourite one in terms of the actual night of because we didn’t really do a lot of decoration for our station. It was probably my favourite project to present though. I found that most people thought it was cool that it was actually a true story about one of my ancestors, which made me really proud.
So without further ado here’s my comic!:
Thanks for reading!
-Ailie 💜
P.S. It’s almost tPOL time!