For my capstone project I want to focus on comic creator diversity. Early comics were dominated by Caucasian men, however with the popularity and evolution of comics ever growing, comics have become a more open art form for an increasingly diverse range of creators. This transition is still in its early stages and minorities still struggle significantly to enter this competitive field. It is important that we encourage the diversification of comics and their creators to promote new genres, to reach minority readers, and to understand different views. Improving this area of comics, which is still very much controlled by white men, benefits not only the careers of varied artists, but readers as well. I would promote this opinion and support it with statistics about minorities in comic careers and facts about comics in education.

I will be creating an info-graphic and an animation video for this project. As a visual art, I feel that using visual representations of statistics and examples to portray the diversity of comics fits well. As I stated above I will focus on data involving minority artists in comic careers and how this relates to readers and their education in social issues. I will attempt to style the media objects in a more stereotypical comic style to fit the theme of my topic. Some vague cameos from popular comic characters may appear. The conclusion of these media objects will attempt to make the viewer think about diversity in comic creators and the benefits of supporting them.

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