Seventh Assignment: Family Story



From Bullied a Family History

For next week, please write a script for a family story. A story from your family, your own experience of your family or a story that is told within your family.  There is an emphasis on risk-taking in this assignment and opening up the confessional possiblity of comics. You may exaggerate or ground your story in genre codes, for example for a family story on Mars....but make sure you ground your story in your own life and experience. A good example of a family story of this time is Alison Bechtel's Fun Home, one of the most successful graphic novels of the last 10 years. Try to make use of sense memory in writing your story, should feel what it was like to see, hear, taste, smell, experience in our skins what it was like to be there for the events of the story you tell.

Here is a link to the assignment on the syllabus.

Mid-Term: Remember that this week is the midterm and all your assignments for the first half of the semester are due.

Here is a link to my family comic, "My Mom in Boot Heel Comics"