The comic is an anniversary gift for my parents, and represents in very short form the battle my mom had with breast cancer, and her ultimately becoming cancer free. I made a rough outline for the comic, which was originally going to be a bit longer, and then had my roommate in DAAP illustrate it. He emailed the files to me, I threw them into photoshop, did coloring, and pieced them all together. I did make two prints for my mom and dad, but also decided to put it up on my website for easier access. It's a short comic, and it's pretty straightforward I feel as far as narrative structure goes. I think and hope the gutter does a lot of work, specifically in transitions, and enhancing a lot of the movement that I really couldn't show in what ended up being four pages. I wanted to utilize the full splash page for the attack by cancer to emphasize it's heaviness. Even though this is a pretty light-hearted comic, it does deal with heavy subject matter, and a pretty heavy time in our life. But I wanted to take it from a different perspective, because looking back, it was good, fighting through it together as a family, and for my mum and dad too as a couple, growing us all stronger together. The form is a little more typical of superhero style comics, and a little distant from most of our other comics. But I thought it fit with the ideas that some of the comics have of having trouble dealing with issues, and not quite creating metaphors for what actually happened, but maybe a "simile" if you can make a visual simile.
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