The (first three pages of the) story of my life
Imagine that your favorite comics company has asked you to create a graphic novel — the only catch is that you’ve got to sell them on your idea for it. Write a 500-word pitch for a graphic novel that captures the story so far — and the meaning so far — of your life. And then sketch out the first three pages of that graphic novel (i.e., the first “solo” page, and then pages 2 and 3 as a two-page spread).
Use Moore’s advice about generating ideas to help you start.
And remember: You don’t need to be an accomplished (or even a halfway decent) artist to do a terrific job with this assignment. If you draw your pages in stick figures, that’ll be fine. Just use what you learned about the visual possibilities of comics Scott McCloud to make those stick figures convey the genius of your idea.
