Our tutor Steve suggested that I make a collaborative comic strip with Emily, who has also been working on large-scale comic pages. He said he'd like it to be something about the Foundation course, or college life so Emily and I discussed our ideas and made a plan.
We both agreed on a story for the comic page; although Steve probably intended for us produce satire about college, we decided to poke fun at the tutors instead. We made a rough sketch of the panels and possible dialogue and omitted any panels that wouldn't fit or weren't necessary and refined the text.
In one of the panels, Steve's bike is on fire and Steve let us photograph his bike so we could draw from the photos.
This is our finished comic page. We used a large sheet of paper as we were both used to drawing on this scale. We decided on a style we could both replicate so that the differences between our drawings weren't noticeable. I sketched the right side as Emily did the left and then we switched and inked outlines onto each other's drawings.
I think the comic came out well as our classmates enjoyed reading it, although I don't think Alistair approved of us depicting him in this way. Emily and I found it very easy to work together by making quick decisions and sharing our sense of humour. I feel the comic fits in nicely with the rest of my work as it appears cartoon-like and fun but is actually telling quite a twisted story. Emily and I discussed burning the edges of the comic but I worried a little that the whole thing might go up in flame, and in the end we both decided not to do this as we had other work to get on with.
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