As more thoroughly described above, we long ago knew we wanted to incorporate the themes of law enforcement and community relations within our Back of the Yards comic series.  As a very practical matter, we knew we couldn’t continue our comic-based narrative, based in our fictional Back of the Yards neighborhood in the South Side of Chicago, without incorporating law enforcement into the ongoing narrative in some central way. 

But even more relevant to us was the hope that by incorporating law enforcement and with that, some of the issues that continue to permeate all our urban centers, we could hopefully promote some sort of more balanced dialogue and understanding into our modest little comic series.  So, with that context in mind, we are presenting you the following related featured collaborations for Issue 3.

As part of this featured collaboration, we will work with you to create two new characters for our comic series together, both police officers and each to be first introduced in Issue #3 (with perhaps some of the dialogue captured above also incorporated into a comic scene with those officers).  

And as part of the collaboration of the second police officer character, we will facilitate an ongoing dialogue between participating youth and current and retired police officers which will be featured in the supplement of Issue 3 of the Back of the Yards comic series.  Just click on the card on the right learn more!