This mockup was the first stage in planning how to make the comic. What I did here was give a layout of all the components necessary: characters, plot, setting, etc. The components were all elements that I read about through a couple of my sources. I created the mockup by drawing by hand. Afterward, I tried to scan it with an Adobe app that I intended to scan my final comic with later on. However, after completing the scan and showing it to my peers, I realized that the lines the app created were a bit too thick. So I refrained form using it for the final comic draft.

 

 A lot of the sections in this mockup were a bit vague since I hadn’t completely decided how to draw it yet. So this mockup became a collection of ideas of what I could do. With it, I was able to get feedback from my professor and peers.

 

The most helpful feedback I received were on the characters and the settings. I noticed that people had a hard time distinguishing between the science and humanities characters. I had tried making them identifiable with items like a lab coat and a novel. After hearing the feedback, I also realized that by doing so, I might be making some generalizations about people of science and people in the humanities.

 

This brings me to the setting, which I didn’t intend to have present. I initially wanted pure dialogue between the characters. I thought of having the science and the humanities characters argue amongst themselves and have the main character reconciling them. The feedback I received let me know that having a setting would bring about more context. That coupled with the decision to not make generalizations about the fields of study through characters, I decided to take the two to the setting, as seen in the finished product.