Storyboards - Murder Mystery

This comprises of 135 individual panels following an original narrative conceived and drawn by myself (using a brush & ink) Stylistically it begins as a 1950's detective Film Noir but towards the end turns into a western. It also contains a meta-narrative addressing the idea that the comic strip as a powerful means of communication and how from 1954 - 2001 the American government government enforced a strict censorship rule (the Comics Code Authority) on all publications due to it’s supposed immoral influence on it’s youth. In order to compound both the positive and negative elements of the comic strip. In my narrative the young boy is deaf and drawn to comics (the picture/word format being a language learning tool) however perversely with the involvement of the gangsters I’ve highlighted the comic as being contraband or illegal material.