Loverboys (by Lu and Agus)

B- This cartoon stands for the break up scene in Castillo’s Loverboys that has deeply affected the main character of the story. We believe it represents the writer’s intention and  the whole story: it is about love and its universality, everyone can feel identified with a love story in spite of their believes, age and sexual orientation.

We have chosen to represent both the characters thoughts and her actual words as the writer does in the story Loverboys to illustrate the narrative techniques Castillo uses (free direct speech, spontaneous and dialogic narrative).

The first part of this comic strip is set at the character’s bar, the place where she met her loverboy, so as to represent that even though she was leaving him, she wanted him to stay. The second picture illustrates his departure. The background shows how they took different paths, but her position portrays her desire for him to come back and the fact that she isn’t over him. This idea is emphasized by the loverboy as a shadow of the past that is still present in her mind and heart. Finally, we see her drinking to forget him which is completely useless because she’s still torturing herself with her memories.

C- Fortunately, we haven’t faced any major technical problems. Toondoo proved to be simple and very easy to use. Moreover, it has allowed us to create a cartoon which we couldn’t have invented otherwise because of our limited drawing capacity.