Masha Zhdanova

Drowned Girl Homecoming

The bulk of my thesis consists of Drowned Girl Homecoming, a graphic novel about a young girl traveling to Russia over the summer and encountering an undead river creature. I also included ELF GF, a mini-comic about a girl whose girlfriend is an elf in another world, part of a projected longer and more complex story about a world in which multiverse traveling is commonplace; Made Here, a collection of short mini-comics made using a variety of traditional and digital media techniques, including colored pencil and watercolor; and How is Everything With You Over There?, a 37-page stapled mini-comic made in 3 days compiling screenshots of text messages and translated transcriptions of phone calls with my family to further contextualize the circumstances in which I finished my thesis. The pattern on the folders is styled after Khokhloma painting.

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