For this past month a teacher named Mr. Deberry has been coming into our class and teaching us about graphic novels. We started out reading graphic novels with our reading partners then we went into writing graphic novels (Go to my last post and you will see it). This is my blog post about my whole experience.

As a reader of graphic novels, I’ve definitely noticed that I have improved in noticing smaller details that help me understand the story more. And I have improved in understanding the format of graphic novels because I used to get confused on where to read next because some of the graphic novels I have read, had weird orders of where the panels are placed. I also changed as a reader because I started looking at graphic novels in a different way, I used to just flip through the pages and just quickly read the text and didn’t think that graphic novels were a “proper” way of reading. But now I take graphic novels seriously and notice more details (like I said before).

I have improved as a graphic novel writer because at first when we started writing our graphic novels I thought that it would be very simple and easy because in my mind it was just like “Draw some pictures, write some text” that was basically my depiction of how writing a graphic novel would be like but now that I have written a graphic novel I have learned that writing a graphic novel isn’t as simple as it seems. You have to show what the characters feeling, you have to add details that can give a clue to the reader what is happening or something that helps develop the setting.