Comics

Comic Strip

This comic strip is based off of the period of time in the book where Dill Harris is contained in a room for a long period of time.  Based off of this are the reactions of Scout and Atticus Finch.  After finally leaving the room Scout tells her father, Atticus, about what happened.  Caring very much for Dill Atticus acts spuratic at the nature of this happening.  He offers refreshments to him, because he's a caring man, but comes across the problem of no milk.  This arises the life lesson of the comic of always having milk.  Because you never know when you will come across a situation where it is necessary.

Plot Credit- Ben Favot
Illustrations- Oliver Rankin

Political Comic

Though it asked for a single person,  I found that the jury as a whole would be more meaningful.  In the image I drew there is a black figure in a jail cell with a sign above it labelling his innocence.  On the other side of the podium is a white figure standing tall with signs on both sides of him proclaiming his guilt.  Then beside the jury stands sits on each properly assigned side a stack of papers of which are evidence of different things for each person.  There, but out of sight.  I as well wrote on the podium the name of the town to show where they were.  I depicted this comic in this way because in the town of Maycomb the vast majority of people are racist.  During the trial of Tom Robinson, Atticus provided a wealthy amount of evidence that proved the innocence of Tom along with evidence of the guilt of Bob Ewell.  But regardless of the evidence, the full white jury still had the verdict of guitly towards Tom because he was black.  So that is why I put the papers out of sight.  I uploaded 2 photos of this comic.  1 coloured, and one black and white.  I uploaded both because I felt like the black and white one contrasted on the situation better because it singled the black figure out a lot more which I found was more representative of the situation.  I uploaded the coloured one because thats what the assignment asked for.  I much prefer the b/w one because in the book he was surrounded by white people and nothing more, completely singled out (other than Atticus).  I did not put the judge in this picture for the sake that it may have taken away from the focus on the jury.

Concept and Illustrations- Oliver Rankin