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Hare and Tortoise 2009 - pg 23

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Hare & Tortoise 2009

This is a school assignment that I did for the Graphic Storytelling Workshop (an elective) earlier this year. It is a short, dialogue-less manga (Japanese comic) that tells the story of the race between the Hare and the Tortoise but with changes to the context. As I did the whole manga in only a week, I could not help but to compromise on the quality of the drawings.

In this short manga, I paid extra attention to composing the panels and drawings to make sure that each page contains the dynamism needed to make the storytelling interesting.

For instance, on page 13, the second last panel is composed in a way that suggests the hare encircling and thus dominating over the tortoise. On page 14, the difference in size between the hare and the tortoise also effectively portrays the hare’s dominance over the tortoise in terms of their physical abilities. This same composition is adopted again at the end of the race but this time round, the dominance is taken away from the hare and given to the tortoise instead.

In addition, in page 17, the gradual ‘shrinking’ of the hare and the ‘enlargement’ of the tortoise act as a means to portray the downturn of the hare and the uprising of the tortoise in the race.

Finally, in page 25, the first panel shows the hare’s foot in the air but it is the tortoise who steps firmly on the platform in the second panel. The resulting alternating pattern of ‘hare, tortoise, hare, tortoise, hare, tortoise, hare’ in the page creates an interesting contrasting visual flow.
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