Thursday, April 8, 2010

Graphic Short Story


So I have to do a short story for writers craft, however I have to make it a graphic short story. -_-
The project inspired me to read both: The Watchmen and Maus, both wonderful books that I would highly recommend for someone looking for a new read. Personally I enjoyed Watchmen more, but maybe that's just because I'm such a fantastical person, plus I'm a huge colour person and Maus is done in black and white. Black and white is very appropriate however, because Maus is about a Hallocaust survivor, and Watchmen is about superhero's!

So for my graphic short story I'm going to do some depressing thing, because after all, it is written by me! And.. when do I ever write happy things? ;) It's of course inspired by reality, all of the written world is inspired by reality in some way or another! A gilr in hell commenting about God. The comments about God are all my thoughts, my personal experiences. The hell part is basically what I see, what I live in only it looks pretty damn beautiful. She takes some pills that she bought at the Happiness Shoppe, and then continues to commit suicide. Which then sends the viewer to pictures of her quickly opening her eyes as she lies in bed, and the whole first page of the story is repeated.
Taken somewhat from Dante's Inferno, though I've never read it. (I did read the Gargoyle, which talks alot about The Divine Comedy.) The fact that in Dante's hell, successful suicides turn into trees, forever as trees which lose their leaves and grown new ones. However the process of losing the leaves is so painful, and yet it happens, again and again and again. The sense of helplessness that my story gives I think is really powerful. It doesn't matter what you do, you can't be happy and you can never escape hell. (How morbid Michelle, how wonderfully like you!)

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