This Studio Card production will cover neighborhoods and their residents within our urban centers. We wanted to have a devoted Studio Card production series for this topic because, after all, it is those neighborhoods and their residents that makes any city special and unique. That melange of people, personalities and life experiences. It is from these neighborhoods and their residents that you can get real sense of the character that permeates from our urban communities. The food they serve and eat The history that sometimes screams through the architecture. The people and their journeys, both personal and ancestral.
An Overview
And it’s in that context that we wanted to facilitate this Studio Card Production: Neighborhoods & Their Residents. This was especially important to us because we want to make sure that elements of this ongoing comic collaboration are based on some of the unique characteristics from within the urban neighborhoods that participating youth may reside. We begin with a Google Slide hyperdoc to kick things off.
– Quick Tip! –
When skimming through Google Slide hyperdocs like the one above on this website (using the < > arrows on the bottom left corner of the hyperdoc), it might be helpful to click on the three vertical dots appearing at the bottom left, and then click on the “Enter full screen” option. And once you are done viewing the hyperdoc, just hit your “escape” key to return to this Studio Card page.
As we will cover over time, every city neighborhood has a history. And that history often involves the story of immigrants. Immigrants that are often coming to America looking for a better way of life. And it is in that context that we present to you a tale that not many outside of Chicago may know, but one that we think helps to illustrate this city’s own historical immigrant roots.
– Another Quick Tip! –
As part of this collaborative series, we couldn’t possibly overlook a glimpse into the real neighborhood that served as the inspiration of the fictional neighborhood of our comic series, the Back of the Yards! So it is that Len Kody and Dan Dougherty collaborated to present you with this quick comic feature for your reading pleasure.
So as is customary for us to do prior to any set of collaborations, we like to offer a video that will help inspire some creative vibes. Well, in this case we decided to go with a drone flyover of the city we cover above, Chicago. It is amazing to think this city came from the humble origins we described above in less than two centuries. Moreover, when you throw in a great fire that essentially wiped the city out in between (which we will cover soon at some point), it becomes even more remarkable. At any rate, here’s a video for your viewing pleasure. We thought it was pretty cool anyway.