Identity Crisis

A comic in animatic form I did for my Asian American Literature class. This whole concept was based around how much identity played an essential role in the things we read.

Specifically, I was inspired by a quote from Chang-Rae Lee's Native Speaker:

"I thought English would simply be a version of our Korean. Like another kind of coat you could wear."

I then formulated my concept around identity as clothing. You can wear whatever sort of clothing you would like, and the clothing you wear says something about yourself. If you want to communicate something else about yourself, you can change your clothing to give a different impression. It was around these ideas that I created this piece.