I love creative final projects for class. It somehow feels like I'm getting away with murder, that I am allow to do something I enjoy for a grade. I was lucky enough to have two creative finals this semester, one of which I will talk about now.
I co-produced a short comic book with the help of Rafael Gaitan. I created the story, which was inspired by both the title of Stephen Hawking's seminal book A Brief History of Time, and the comic gold mine that is Stephen Hawking. Earlier in the semester I brought the idea of Rafael, who immediately jumped on board. From there it was just a matter of writing the story with Raf, and for me to figure out how to create a layout for, and illustrate a comic book. Needless to say, the whole process was delayed until only a week before the project was due, and I ended up creating the layout for the comic and illustrating it in a ten hour grind fest the day before it was due.
I really do enjoy continually going outside of my comfort zone in order to produce art. It's a great way to learn, and I think one day it will all come together.
Hopefully you will enjoy it as much as Professor Donald Ault, who remarked after reading the title, "Hey that's far out!"
You can download the PDF file here:
A Brief History of Stephen Hawking.pdf
