The Final Comic

MAN WE FINISHED! Since the initial #GloUp of our comic, we tweaked some stuff to make our comic a bit more polished. Last Thursday, we projected our projects and talked about changes we could make to improve them. We got some comments about the layout of the frames of our comic - a lot of them were uneven and lopsided. The text in our speech bubbles was a really heavy, masculine text that was not centered or formatted correctly at all. And one of our Gompeis had his WPI shirt on backwards! Classic Gomp!

We also wanted to end our comic with more student interviews, which were a huge hit according to the comments from our classmates. We wanted to interview students from different HUA backgrounds too, because all three of the students we initially interviewed did their depth in history. We did some extensive facebook stalking and found some photos of our friends, asking them for more quotes to diversify our comments.

We also spruced our comic up, making sure all of our photos were clear and all of our lines were straight up and down. We spent a looooong time changing font sizes so they were less wildly different. And then we read through the comic again and found MORE mistakes so we went back and fixed those. BOOM CHICKA POP we got it done!

Gompei suitin up in style!

Gompei Kuwada is actually the name of the person who kept Gompei the goat on campus. Gompei (the person) didn't name his goat, so WPI named our mascot after him.

Gompei the conductor!

Gompei is actually both a land mammal and a sea mammal!

Please note the picture of the screen of us working on this frame. Just for LOLs. 

HUGE shoutout to all the people we facebook stalked for these interviews!

We crafted our artist statement as well:

In our comic, “A Tour of the HUA Requirement: The Breadth and Depth Path”, we are targeting prospective students and first-year students that have already enrolled at WPI and are exploring their Humanities and Arts Requirement options prior to course registration. Our purpose in creating this comic is to explain the breadth and depth option of the HUA requirement, since it is one of WPI’s most confusing and diverse graduation requirements. In our comic, we include a sample breadth and depth schedule to give students an example path they could follow. The story of the comic follows a general overview of this particular HUA option interlaced with the breadth and depth classes that Gompei, the star of our comic, took. We chose to use WPI’s mascot as the main character in order to create ethos with the reader. Finally, we added testimonials from WPI students that explained why they benefited from this option. We decided to add students’ personal stories to the comic to show why WPI students like having the humanities as a part of their education, even though WPI is considered a tech school. As neither of us have much artistic talent, we decided to superimpose pictures of Gompei that we drew on top of various locations on WPI’s campus that we photographed. These pictures will be familiar to the audience, further creating ethos. Our comic is meant for two different mediums, online and print. It could be put online as a series of panels on the humanities and arts website, or be printed as a poster panel or a pamphlet that would be distributed at Accepted Students Days or before course registration.

This was definitely my favorite project so far! I think it was partially because there was such an exigence for Katie and I to create a comic about the HUA requirement - as tour guides, we get SO many questions about the requirement. We used a lot of tactics we use in tours, and I think overall it's very effective!