SC11 Comic Book Program

A clever story was crafted around the demonstrations planned for our SC11 booth. Each demo took place on a different planet within a fictional universe. From the bridge of a spacecraft, the hardscrabble, tattooed Captain Foster tasked superheroes Fletcher or Marshal with solving a task. Each task was the research being demoed in the booth.

Layouts were a combination of hand-drawn illustrations, vector graphics, and raster images. For the less adventurous, the final spread was a more traditional layout and overview of each demo’s abstract.

Superhero Marshal was named for astronomer and IU faculty member, Marshal Wrubel. Wrubel was one of the organizers and the first Director of the IU Computing Research Center, which was renamed in his honor in 1973. Superhero Fletcher was named in honor of Jessica of Murder, She Wrote fame. The comic book’s writer was a legit fan.

Written by Janae Cummings

Drawings and design by Maria Morris