Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Publication Title
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
Abstract
This graphic article explores the sensory world in the context of pandemic-related mental health issues. While comic artists work in abstract and impressionistic styles to varying degrees, most comic art has been representational. While many artists are adept at rendering facial expressions and body language, these are merely outward manifestations of a character’s mood or emotions. This article explores conveying states of mind less literally, using my own psychological reaction to the pandemic as its subject. I employ visual metaphors, icons, symbols, abstraction, and simplification rather than realistic or highly rendered images in the hopes of better relaying thoughts and emotions.
Department
Library
Volume Number
12
Issue Number
1
First Page
1
Last Page
9
State
published
DOI
https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.6354
Recommended Citation
Whatley, Edward, "Drawing the Invisible: Comics as a Way of Depicting Pscyhological Responses to the Pandemic" (2022). Library Faculty Scholarship. 21.
https://kb.gcsu.edu/lib/21