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This is about hopelessness and the struggle for optimism when things aren't changing. I wanted to capture how it makes me feel and did so with the symbolism of rain. The blue in the comic symbolizes the abyss. This can observed in the sky and in the water of the pond. The rain feeds this emptiness. The yellow symbolizes hope and the use of this color increases with each panel. It's ok to get caught in the rain, just don't drown.

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Depression has caused me to fantasize about what I wish I had/what I wish I was doing. In the first panel on the upper-left, you can see I am surrounded by colorful and happy thoughts/feelings I wish I was experiencing (I am blue because I don't feel those happy thoughts). The next two panels starting form the upper-right, then to the lower-left, show one of my fantasies being expanded and poured down on me. In the last panel I am now inside this new "bubble" of happiness (expressed with warmer colors to show the improved mood).

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She's lonely, and confused on her emotions and where she stands. She's trapped in a circle of sadness. In the final panel she's seen hugging someone to support her and be by her side.

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This is about how I feel like I'm being forced into this virtual world (expressed by the TV). The one-way path represents the lack of choices that I have, and how it leads to me being forced to put on the TV like a headset, weighing me down.

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This really is about the crazy times we're living through and how all major events that have that have happened just in the past year affected me personally. The first one symbolizes how I feel like I'm going insane stuck home. The second one show how time seems to be moving fast. The one on the bottom right shows how there is so much hate going on in this world that is changing everyone and how I view it. The last one represents me dealing with my emotions alone giving the world my back.

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I wanted it to show that even though life can be rough, there are always things that can make your day better. For example, my bear, my cat, and my imagination are some of the things that brighten my day.

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I mostly told the story of the first snow storm I experienced in my life. Not happy nor sad but mostly just living through the day with enjoying the little moments of it.

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My comic is about the emotions I was feeling during the pandemic when it was 2020 until the New Years where a new year began 2021. The first panel is showing the emotions of being Hopeful of the year of 2020 before the virus came into the world. The second panel is the feeling of anxiousness about what’s happening and the events playing out of your control . The third one is the feeling of depression not feeling like yourself with the changes you are seeing. The last one is peaceful feeling like the worst is over and a new beginning is starting.

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This time at home has been very hard for numerous people. People spend more hours inside than ever before. This piece displays the feelings and situations that many people have felt and faced. For some, they experienced more love than usual with their family spending more time at home. For others, they had to deal with the loss of loved ones. For many, the load and stress of assignments from school or work at their job. Finally, I feel like we have all felt somewhat lost. Stuck at home, Having lack of motivation, and very little human interaction has affected many people.

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At this time the prevailing feeling I've had was stress in daily life. I tried to achieve that feeling by including my thoughts about growing up and the future.

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This is about the feeling about time, especially since today marks the last day of school before quarentine. It feels both like longer than a year and less than a year, and its hard to believe that we have been inside for this long.

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Emptiness, Light, Chaos, Peace of Mind,  Mia Gomez

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Emptiness, Light, Chaos, Peace of Mind,  Mia Gomez

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My comic is about the endless news cycle endured last year. In the face of so much stress already, the constant bizarre and horrible things always being televised just exacerbated my stresses. This piece is about breaking free from that-- The imagery of a person forcefully removing their head from the television may not be subtle, but it is a striking visual that gets my message across.

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I decided to paint some of the things the have caused me stress recently. The cats represent late assigments and notifacations from school. The blue panel represents growing social anxiety that I sometimes feel, and the general fear of crowds that everyone has felt thanks to covid. I also drew a panel with metaphorical school bells ringing because the stress to do well in school for me is still very real even if Im not physically there. Of course I am in the middle, surrounded by it all. I found the process of creating the piece really fun, and helpful with processing the stress:)

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Returning to my childhood, and the confusion, wonder, happiness, and sadness that comes along with it. The world beyond the shell is colorless and empty. A faceless figure descends into the cave lit only by a torch.

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Representing what my life has consisted of the past year. Sleep, Zoom, Work, and the last, question my life.

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This comic is about the stages of emotions I have felt through the pandemic. The mood changes from sad, to solemn, to kind of happy. At the end, the person is happy about their experience and looks back at it, smiling. The pandemic has been hard but the experience was a good one looking back on it.

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A large part of the pandemic has been spent moving from place to place for me, and I've been too far away from my friends to see them as often as i used to.

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In this comic I was hoping to portray the difficulty of moving forward over the past year. In general, the events that unfolded blindsided many people, and sometimes it feels as if there is a force constantly pulling us back to where we were before. This is why I chose a marionette as the main symbol as it can sometimes feel as if we're tied to strings that prevent us from something better.

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I feel like I've been going through phases during COVID. First there was this kind of denial, and then there was optimism that it would be over soon, and then pessimism when summer came and went and nothing changed, and then finally this sort of acceptance of the situation at the beginning of the school year. I've invested myself in watching movies and television to fight off boredom and seclusion, and I guess I miss the outside world and getting see and meet people on a regular basis.

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I wanted this piece to commemorate the pain and loneliness of this past year. I based each box off a season, following the time the pandemic first began to this past winter.
Ultimately, my piece communicates the feeling of being alone and feeling like time is stuck right where you left it. 2020 was a year lost for all of us, and I wanted to express the sorrow and frustration that many of us felt.

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A depiction of the ways i currently struggle. My internal struggle, how draining and repetitive school and work can get, my dissociation and anxiety, and things outside of myself that cause stress like school, covid, family, and the idea that i'm running out of time as i grow out of childhood.

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I started out very bored then went to sad, angry, and finally content. To convey the mood of each panel I focused on the color and symbolism. For example, the first one has a girl yawning, a dog sleeping, books, and muted tones to represent boredom. The second panel has blue and grey tones with rains to show sadness. The third panel represents anger with shades of red accentuating the emotion. Finally, the last panel has yellows and greens to show happiness and how we are finally on the road to no more COVID.

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My piece was about my experience with quarantine. This being my freshman year I don't know many people in my classes, and so most of my friends are what remains of who I knew a year ago. Not only that but all of my interactions with said friends are now done through a computer, removing another element.

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I tried to draw/express the feeling of being stuck or trapped. I feel many people have gone through that sort of thing over last year and maybe even this year.

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Talking and interacting through a screen can only go so far. And after a while of seemingly one-sided conversations in breakout groups and rushed instructions from teachers you tend to feel cramped up. It's not like you're trapped but most people confine themselves to their beds or desks only to sit there for hours attending school. At that point, I find it best to go outside and get a breath of fresh air.

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My comic is about things that have become normal during the pandemic. There is an empty school hallway, someone with a mask on, and a hand getting hand sanitizer. It's a little bit dark and very blue, except for the top left panel, that shows me looking at the lake (I live close to there and ride my bike past it a lot). Before the pandemic, I didn't ride my bike as much, but now, I've found lots of different routes to go, and the one I painted happens to have a nice view

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I wanted to show a sense of false hopes and fear. A girl trapped in whatever dark world she’s in, unknown creatures reaching out to her, she see a glimmer of light. As she approaches it, hoping it’s a way out of the world she’s in, but instead there’s a demon looking back at her.

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I wanted this piece to portray my daily life, and the repetition of it, the sounds I hear and the view I see every day.  I’m sure a lot of people can relate. I wanted to use vibrant colors to portray the hope even in this repetitive cycle.

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In this comic, I tried to portray the daily struggle of going to online school. You wake up, hop on a Zoom call, sit on a screen for hours and hours on end, do homework, and then the next day, you wake up and do the same thing. I feel like every day is the same, making it very difficult to find the motivation to complete schoolwork and be happy. The lines that I drew in on each panel are supposed to represent the repetitiveness of each day.

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A Colorful Palette of Feelings, Ruby Cerda Lopez

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A Colorful Palette of Feelings, Ruby Cerda Lopez

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My comic is about the bizarre times, feelings, and moods I experienced during the start of the pandemic to the end of the year twenty twenty.  I tried

to not only focus on the

negative aspects of my quarantine, but also incorporate

a little of the good things

that happened.

A big factor in my comic was color.  Blues and yellows as more positive and calm colors. Reds, purples, and blacks

to convey more negative,

sad, and anxious colors. I used it to help me convey my emotions.

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This is sort of about finding something serene or peaceful to enjoy or admire in either your daily life or during hard times. I chose to represent this with color.

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This is about me at the start, during and throughout the pandemic. I painted myself happy before the pandemic, then I used colors to represents me getting stressed and overwhelmed with work from school. Clocks represents the days and time going by of me doing the same thing every day. On my last panel i painted myself in the center by myself.I used lighter blue around me then darker blue and a little bit of dark purple on the outside to represent to represent me feeling alone, tired and isolated from everything.

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This is about disconnecting from the outside world. The frogs are integrated into the outside world, and represent other people and elements that remain connected to each other. The purple, representing a person's inner world, is completely monochromatic. This piece is meant to inspire a mood of quiet despair.

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This is about how much sensory overload there has been in the past year

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This comic is about the feeling of repetition everyday, and the feeling of always searching. The monochromatic blue tones display the feeling of sadness everyday, but one day something new arrives. Pink tones introduce a new emotion into the piece, and serves as the thing you have been searching for.

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The monotonous, lost feeling that can come about when you spend days immersed in a screen. I wanted each square to represent a growing bizarre-ity and disconnectedness from reality. I used the squiggly, tangled lines to insert a sense of unraveling and an uncertain, nervous feeling.

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I like the art. It's the best. I do stress management too. I like it!

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I wanted to depict the activities that I've been doing during this pandemic that bring me a sense of calm and relief. Instead of focusing on the stress and anxiety I've been feeling during this time, I wanted to show my ways of decompressing.

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I’ve grown very reliant on time outside, it is a nice re-set and calm-down for me. Noticing the small things like birds or leaves rustling in the trees helps me be more present.

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The moods I’m representing are stress, sadness, instability, and hope. The red and purple stripes represent those sickening feelings that you can feel in your stomach, all around you. The mouths and noses (unmasked) next to the stripes represent people who don’t wear masks creating more stress and anxiety. The movement the lines make are supposed to create a unstable mood. The yellow colors are supposed to represent happiness and hope. The imagery of the figure’s eyes closed and then open in the last panel is supposed to represent being closed off to the world and open eyes mean wanting to be a part of it again.

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Covid has been stressful, at times it sometimes felt like your words get "drowned" out. The world is still a mess and at any certain point, you get flooded with bad news. Step out into the water to let yourself get drowned.