Comics and World War 1. That’s what this exhibition was, and it was pretty fun. History is one of my favourite things to research, and I love comics so it was the perfect combo.

The exhibition was setup downstairs, which made it really crowded… kinda. The majority of the exhibition was in the cafeteria, but me and my group were tucked away from the action. The main reason people walked by was for directions, and going from one place to another, not to see our projects. Closer to the end people started to realize we existed which was nice. 

The theme for our section was WW1, for obvious reasons. The way we tried to do with was making the area into a trench with cardboard wall on the sides. My station was right in the middle of the trench, which lead to a lot of work fixing the trench.

 

My comic itself took a long time. Each image would take anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours. Along with making the images I had to put them into the comic, and make it make sense. Just because it was a lot of work didn’t mean I didn’t enjoy it. I would play some music and draw so I’m not complaining. 

 

The story of my comic was following Noah, a fictional character, who fought at Vimy Ridge. It was a pretty straight forward comic other then one flashback to him leaving his sister. Slowly through his journey there is more death around him until it catches him too. My comic was pretty much the same as my story board other than a few small changes. 

 

 

A big thing I would to differently next time out be giving myself for time to work on the drawings. On Tuesday, the day before it was due, I worked in it from 4pm – 2am. Luckily I finished the project but it could have been much better quality.