Susan Squier, who has studied the visual language of graphic novels for many years, now keeps a comic journal as a way to experience firsthand the power of comics to describe events and express ideas.
Susan Squier works on her comics journal.
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In her journal, Squier draws panels showing notable events of the day, and then writes in more detail about them and why she chose to draw them as she did.
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One of Squier's journal stories involved axolotls, a species of salamander that retains its feathery gills into adulthood.
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