Graphic Novel: Plight of Kids Raised by Single Parents


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Creator/Artist: Shreyas Vernekar

Category: Communication Design

Document: P2 Project

Batch: 2021-2023

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2019-onwards

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Bharat Parmar


Detailed Description

Through this project, I intend to narrate the life experience of an individual brought up by a single parent. I aim to touch upon the issues faced, psychological coping mechanisms, and changes in mannerisms. Establish an emotional connection towards the single-parent child life and sensitise the readers towards single-parent children missing out on particular niches of skills generally learnt by observing parental figures in their life. The outcome of this project is a graphic novel with black-and-white, detailed, and stylised illustrations with selective colour pages. This book is divided into three chapters, each dealing with different issues faced in childhood, the teenage years, and the adulthood of a single-parent child's life. As the book focuses on single-parent children with an absent parent, I've decided to use a black-and-white colour palette reflecting the "present" and "absent" reality of the protagonist's parent.