The Text And Images Astrapi Did In Persepolis

In my comic, I recounted the time I was in Rome for honor choir and how our host family left us in the middle of Rome. Throughout the story, it expresses the insecurities of a group of thirteen year olds being left in an unknown neighborhood. I decided to communicate this to the readers by showing a sense of being lost and not knowing what to do in the part where we walk around on the street and also showing the foolish things thirteen years olds could do when we jaywalk.

Many of the transitions constitute of scene-to-scene transitions. Given the one-page limit, the comic had to be concise and to the point. The scene-to-scene transition most efficiently communicates to the reader, since it highlights the most important parts that make up the event. For example, from the first

For example, I was initially planning on adding more panels in between the point when our host family left us and when we jaywalked, however I realized that this was not possible given the space when working on the final draft. Also, drawing is not particularly a forte of mine; therefore, whether the images can be understood and processed by the reader is debatable. However, a successful aspect of the comic was the balancing the text and images as Satrapi did in Persepolis. In class, we did an activity where we read the chapter “The Makeup” whilst covering the text. We noticed that the images alone made the story slightly confusing, because it did not include some specific details that were crucial for understanding the plot. The same was done with the images, and this time we noticed that it was harder to visualize what was happening. From this we learnt how text and graphics are supposed to balance each other out much like yin and yang, which emphasizes that opposites should actually complement each other. Applying the above activity to my comic, I was able to produce the same effect, which shows how I was able to accomplish