Comic books and WW1, who would have thought that they would go together.. over the past few weeks we learnt about WW1 through a comic book, we then learnt about Canada’s significance in the war, and I was really surprised to learn how much Canada did in the war. After we learnt about Canada and important Canadian battles, we got to choose a battle to make a comic about. My top three were Vimy Ridge, The Halifax explosion and the Battle of Ypres, I ended up getting The Halifax Explosion, which is the largest man made bomb in history (non-nucular) at first I thought that it was an attack on the ship because they knew how many explosives they were carrying but I later realized that it was an accident by a smaller ship pulling out of the harbour at the same time, it was ahead of the Mont-Blanc SS but the bigger ship was too stubborn to let it go ahead of it, the two ships ended up colliding and knocking over benzine barrels which caused a fire which caused the explosion. We first wrote out what we wanted our comic to look like to get an idea of what we should focus on and how we would tell the story and I thought that it was much easier to make the whole comic after the story board, it felt much more simple, like I just have to draw that one but better, the end product was 6 pages and 21 panels, I was happy with my final product even though some of the drawings are a little tough around the edges.

The next step was the exhibition, we had to get our final comics in on time for them to be printed and then present. On the day of the exhibition we were still working on the trench, lots of kids skipped last block to help build more props for the exhibition, everyone began to pull everything together. We then set up our stations for our groups, my group was me and one other person, but since we were short on tables we shared our table with the Battle of Hooge. Once we were all set up and ready for people it felt much less stressful since we’ve done this before, the only struggle was explaining to Pete we made a comic book about important events in WW1 and they would ask if this was about what’s going on today. There were also lots of people that only come to your table because their kid is also at that station so they would just kind of skip us but other than that I was ready to present my work and show my process of making the comic book.