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point of Joe’s hypocrisy and suggests that the true motive for disapproval of rolling backpacks is
that a cool person wouldn’t be confident enough to make use of one him or herself. A high
school student can relate to these examples because homosexuality is currently a popular
controversy in high schools and rolling backpacks are something generally understood as
“uncool.”
I also use contrasting illustrations to magnify the effect of a cool attitude on a person.
Throughout the guide, the cool people are drawn in dull colors that do not stand out. This
contrasts with the images of the non-cool students, who vary greatly in colors of clothing. This is
to emphasize that an attitude which advocates being disinterested in turn makes the person
uninteresting. Furthermore, in the majority of the illustrations, the cool person is expressing
boredom, smugness, or unhappiness, while other people are joyful and expressive. The cool
people are unexpressive because they are instructed by their stereotype to be this way, yet I
chose to make others very expressive to make it look like being an individual, friendly, and
interested was more fun and exciting than being cool. An example of this contrast can be seen on
the first and last pages of the guide. When the guide begins, an excited character in bright clothes
has his arms thrown up in anticipation of learning to be cool. Yet, on the last couple pages, the
character is shown again with a calmer hairstyle, an unhappy expression, crossed arms, and dull
clothes. With this contrast I displayed how much less appealing the character was once he
became cool, and on the final page he tellingly wonders, “Is it cool to miss the uncool me”
I am not only very relieved to be done with my project, but I am very glad I did it. For
several years I have been interested in learning how to design images on Photoshop, but I never
had the motivation to do it. I knew I wanted my project to be paper comic book, and I quickly
realized that if I wanted it to look professional, I had to ditch the colored pencils and design my