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Demystifying The Penny Valley Files, Austin Ickes

Graduate School of Art Theses

This article focuses on the historical antecendents and development processes of the independent comic, The Penny Valley Files.

Bad Baby Lich Lords: Narrative & Cartooning In Card Games, Taylor Dow

Graduate School of Art Theses

Overview of thesis project Bad Baby Lich Lords and its historical place in card gaming.

Fantastical Creatures: Folklore, Fact, And Fantasy, Leah Kurth

Graduate School of Art Theses

Notes on the Existence of Illusive Critters is a collection of creatures that blend into contemporary urban life, framed as a set of notes produced by a young woman seeking acceptance into the local naturalist society. This project is comprised of notes and drawings from a nature journal presenting these fantasy creatures as real, and is rooted in bestiaries, folklore, creature design, and the concept of secondary worlds. Fantasy is at the core of this project, wrapped inside mock naturalism.

Childhood Ableism: Too Young To Be Disabled?, Charles Claudino

Writing Waves

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The Adobe Frontier, Christopher J. Gauthier

Theses and Dissertations

The Adobe Frontier is a documentary film about Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello—together known as “Studio Rael San Fratello” —and their work connecting contemporary technology with the legacy of pottery making and adobe architecture in the Southwest United States.

Signal To Noise: Harmonic Temperaments And Patterns Of Interference, Dylan A. Marcheschi

Theses and Dissertations

An audio/visual exploration of historical tuning systems. Most contemporary Western audiences will seldom if ever encounter harmony outside of post-Renaissance tuning conventions. This presentation highlights some of those pre-orthodox harmonic relationships which existed throughout most of history. The corresponding paper documents correlates in recent advances of acoustic ecology.

Fine/Not Fine: A Cancer Intervention, Erin Lewis

Graduate School of Art Theses

Fine/Not Fine: A Cancer Intervention offers a new way to think about and interact with cancer patients. The projectconsists of an illustrated memoir, poster, birthday cards and a zine, offering an autobiographical perspective of a cancer survivor. Fine/Not Fine helps cancer patients by educating the people in their lives. Readers learn about healthy interactions with cancer patients. They are discouraged from using toxic language,and from citing conspiracy theories and alleged magical cures not rooted in science when interacting with cancer patients.

Void, Beth Berg

COD Library Student Research and Award Symposium

Void is a proposed exhibition that collects modern and contemporary artworks that surround the idea of being nothing and something at the same time. It is full of pieces of art that are paradoxes, unorthodox in their creation or being, who at first glance may look like they have nothing to say, but at the same time, are saying everything. They are filled to the brim with unknowns, dark corners, empty spaces; places where you, as the viewer, are allowed and encouraged to step in, to fill in that silence, and occupy that space yourself.

Faculty Sponsor: David Ouellette

Everyday Trauma: Narrativizing The Self In Chris Ware’S Graphic Novels, Jacob Bibeault

Honors Program Theses and Projects

The term “graphic novel”—that is, a book-length narrative that employs the comics medium to tell its story—has entered into the vocabulary of comics enthusiasts and readers alike. But, despite the popularity of contemporary graphic novels, many graphic novelists began their careers writing underground comics that garnered little mainstream attention.

Picnic Day, Caroline Bass

The Echo

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Furman Bell Tower, Nathan Norfleet

The Echo

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The Overlapping Years, Lara Rudman

The Echo

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The Guest Room, Jordan Stevens

The Echo

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Frozen In Time, Elizabeth Mangone

The Echo

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Final Destination, Anna Bowman

The Echo

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Ars Poetica: For When The Smoke Clears, Amanda Cordle

The Echo

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Unpublishable, Carly Marlys

The Echo

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Handle, Jordan Winiski

The Echo

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Home From The House Of Death: A Poem Found In Homer's Odyssey, Elizabeth Mangone

The Echo

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Run, Ariel Crank

The Echo

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Pondberry, Jordan Winiski

The Echo

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Etruscan I, Jordan Winiski

The Echo

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Motherboard, Brandon Barney

The Echo

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Laundry Room, Mary Shelley Reid

The Echo

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Let Us Be Glad!, Will Deng

The Echo

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White Rage, Annie Reigel

The Echo

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Prose From A Farmhand On A Red Rose, Macy Petty

The Echo

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When I Called Him A Coward, Annie Reigel

The Echo

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Sprouts, Caroline Bass

The Echo

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Riverside, Caroline Bass

The Echo

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