Thank you WARP Professors!

Thank you to all the WARP professors, I learned so much from all of you! Thank you  for your patience, advice, and time. I hope to have you all as teachers again ! You are all truly amazing, have a great winter break! I'll see you all in the Spring ! 

Final In Depth - Narrative - Got Misery? - The milk industry

got misery?

My narrative goes in depth of the milk industry and all the lies and
deceit  companies spread to the world. My goal is to show the world what is really
Happening behind close factory doors.

I made a tag for each of my teachers and numbered them hopefully it is obvious why you all got your 

Number when they are all next to eachother if not try calling Jenny 😜

Zine final version

Video of my zine gonna post the pages underneath 

In Depth Package Process

This video is my objects I am using and how I am going to set the up this is the process they still have  a lot of work to go, this video also shows the relationship between the zine and objects 

In this video  I am working on my syringes just paint and water not actual blood lol!!that i will be putting in the milk bottles to represent all the hormones and blood and pus is actually in milk. 

Milk bottle process in the making the syrgines and the resin in the milk bottles!! And finished result at end 

Video of resin luckily it's sped up and you can't really see my big mistake ! And mess and cursing lol 

The Whole process is in this video~

Zine Process

This was my original sketch for my Zine and how I was planning to set it up. 

And these are some ideas on how I am going to wrap them.


I made my Zine on PowerPoint so the first time I printed it, it didn't print correctly when I folded it so I had to re-due the pages and print again  so below is a video of my first zine I made and printed. It is not the final version so it has some mistakes and I re made it about 5 times.

                             This is what they looked like not printed but this is not the final version.

                                                           (back)                                  (cover)  

                                                       (p.8)                                             (p.1)

                                                       (p.2)                                          (p.7)

                                                              (p.6)                                   (p.3)

                                                            (p.4)                                    (p.5)

After talking to Ralph he told me to be more subtle and get rid of most of  the text and let the pictures speak for themselves. Which is what I am going to try to do in my Final version Zine. 

Component C/C- Container and Context - Package Proposal

 This was my original sketch of how I wanted my box/container/package to look. sorta like a barn. I originally wanted it made of wood but then later decided metal would be better, I'll write more about that below.

 Sorry for all the really bad doodles but that's how I work usually I start building pretty quickly. These are different ways i thought of putting everything in my box.

This was my final decision on how I'm going to set it up. 

 This is my check list of some of the stuff I need to get. 

Ralph's suggestions.

I originally planned to make a wooden dome shaped box that opens but my topic is about the milk industry and animal rights so when talking to Ralph about my ideas he suggested using lunchboxes the old school metal ones. Metal because they are cold and wood is more warming and homey and that is definitely not a factory farm. I think the lunch boxes work on two levels they kinda are shaped like a barn but at the same time its like a lunch and I'm sure a lot of peoples lunches consist of dairy or meat products. I found the perfect ones to use for my art pieces. 

Final Product:

The boxes latch shut which I think works good because it can symbolize how cows are locked up. (the bag next to the lunchboxes s a bunch of little cows I will be using)

Book Fair video !

Miami Book Fair 2016

I'm not sure if my other videos work so I posted a link to it also !! Check it out fun times at the book fair!

Book fair Lecture #2 Keith Knight

The second lecture I went to was They Shoot black people, Don't they? What this lecture was about, a cartoonist named Keith Knight. Who showed a slideshow of his cartoons that show brutality and injustices towards black people. He basically shows 20 years or more of police brutality and racial injustice in the US. A few of the comics he showed had a bow up doll Wilbur, he would put five black people on the road and it would be considered a gang but if they were holding the blowup Wilbur doll it was like they were with a coach or something.

He really hits you hard with his comics and makes you think. He talked about how white people get uncomfortable talking about race and within 6 seconds change the subject and he says how we need to end this and we need to face the awkwardness, and I agree. We are getting nowhere pretending like nothing is wrong if you got something to say or ask I think you should. We have to learn from our past and our mistakes to fix our future. I think he does an excellent job through his comics showing the tragicomedy he talks about something so serious but then he puts it in a funny way. It really makes me think how I could do that with my art. How to make something so terrible and make it funny and both make you laugh and think at the same time.

Book Fair Lecture #1 Tom Hart

      The first lecture I went to was the Child's eye view, the panel consisted of three authors, Meags Fitzgerald who wrote Long red hair, which basically is her life story about her being a lesbian. It was how she differed from her friends. What I found most interesting was that she didn't tell her whole family only her immediate family not her extended family that she was a lesbian. She used her book as a way to come out to the world. She also talked about how it was her fist comic actually using panels, I found his interesting because I don't think comics need to be framed in a panels to tell a story. She also only used two speech bubbles in her entire book, which to me showed that you don't need characters always talking to get the message of the story across.

       Another author on the panel was Emil Ferris. who wrote the book My favorite thing is monsters , what is like about this comic is that she is writing from a little girls point of view she also used a lot of horror movie things she saw in her graphic novel. The last author in the panel was Tom Hart who wrote Rosalie Lightening: A Graphic Memoir. He talked a lot about how he was inspired by Peanuts comics and always did very funny comics. But after his daughter died he decided to do a serious graphic memoir of her life. What I took from this was you can be a very uplifting person but if you have love or passion for something you will show it and describe it and write about it to tell the world how you feel.

Small works #2

Small Work #2 DUE: Sentences and half-page panels associated with Story-Building exercise

Small works #1 comic based on poem

Small works #1 comic process

These are some in process pictures of my comic 

"What is Comics Poetry?" Reading/Response

What is Comic Poetry: is an essay that was written by Alexander Rothman (editor-in-chief of INK BRICK). In this essay he basically tells us what he thinks comic poetry is and how he would define it. He makes it clear throughout the essay that these our his opinions and that views and that it can be a little bit broad. In the essay he defines poetry as "the purest example of a form where the medium is language." And later goes on to define comics as "a form built from visual language, with juxtaposition as its foundational strategy."

Rothman throughout the essay talks about comic poetry and how we understand it. I never really thought about it but when you read comics they take you to that place you can imagine the whole scene like you were actually there. For example in the essay he put in a little cartoon by Warren Craghead its a drawing of a cannon with to outline figures that we perceive ghostly, and above in cursive it says "listen" in my head I actually imagined a cannon being shot. Its crazy to me how we can easily perceive certain fonts or text bubbles and know that they are suppose to be thoughts or screaming, just by how it is set up.

I'm glad I read this before starting my comic poetry for class because of when he says "so much depends on a red wheel barrow" so why would you draw a wheel barrow next to that text it is dead weight. It really made me think about what I should do for my piece to not make it a duplication of text and drawing.

WARP First Post

Labels Help You Organize

All blog posts must be labeled with two keywords, which blogger calls Labels. When faculty visits your blog for evaluation purposes, we will use the labels to quickly find your work. If you do not use the keywords properly, we will not be able to find your work. Proper set-up and maintenance of your blog falls under the Research and Participation part of your grade which counts for 30% of the overall semester grade. 

Topical Keywords

The first set of keywords correspond to the module we are working in. We will refer to these as topical keywords since they correspond to the topic we are exploring over the two-week periods. Your first group of posts will be labeled under Topic: Creative Impulse since this is the first topic (Topic #1). Here are the topical keywords you will use through out the semester:

Topic: Creative Impulse

Topic: Pattern and Ornament

Topic: Rhinoceros

Topic: Narrative

Topic: Landscape

Topic: Zine

Categorical Keywords

The second set of keywords will organize your posts according to kind. Here are the Keywords you will use for Labels:

Exercises - tag for posts documenting all assigned exercises. The first one will be the paper folding exercise from the first class. 

Readings - tag for posts containing your two paragraph responses to the assigned readings. The first ones will be for "The White Bird" and the Jerry Saltz article from Vulture.com. 

Small Works - tag for posts documenting all assigned small works. The first blog post labeled Small Works will contain images and accompanying descriptions of the three small works you complete for the Creative Impulse Module (Topic #1). 

In-Depth Projects - tag for posts documenting all assigned In-Depth projects. The first blog post labeled In-Depth Projects will contain images (or video if appropriate) and accompanying descriptions of the more robust work you produce in response to the Creative Impulse Module (Topic #1).

Outside Visits - tag for posts containing your two paragraph responses to all required visits outside of the classroom. These include visits we do together as a class [during class time] or individually outside of class time. 

Please be sure to use both a topical and categorical keyword when labeling your posts.