For our Impact25 project, Danielle and I are going to create a twenty five person collaborative comic. This idea is inspired by a game called Chickens in the Kitchen, which I have played many times with kids of all ages. The game is simple. Students start off by folding their paper in half and then in thirds, essentially creating 6 panels. At this point, one student comes up with a subject for the comic and another student comes up with the setting. For example, a banana in the desert or a firefighter in space. For the first few minutes everyone draws the first panel of their comic using these guidelines. The drawings don't have to be perfect. When everyone is done, they pass their comic to the left and must continue the story of the new comic that was handed to them. This is repeated until the last panel is drawn. At this point, student's original drawing is returned. Students are almost always delighted by the wild and unexpected turns their comics have taken.
We are going to alter this game slightly. Instead of a single sheet of paper, we will have 25 sheets of paper. Instead of drawing on one panel, artists will draw on one page. Instead of having 25 people sit down at once, we are going to ask random people to fill out one panel at a time, building on each others work. They can spend as long or as little time on each panel as they like. We will collect their emails and email the final comic as one drawing or as a animation upon completion.
On Wednesday October 3rd, we are going to set up in a public space with our paper and drawing utensils and begin!
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