In what way did the first interview affect your presentation? 
- Even before talking with Sean, I had an idea of what I wanted to do for my five-minute, but once I talked to him it solidified what I wanted to do. When he started to talk about what he thought was important about comics, he mentioned the fact that comic books and graphic novels were different, but the idea of what was important in each of them was basically the same. In comic books, he said, you have to have unique characters and stories that connect them for the series to be successful. This is when I started thinking that maybe comic books were more geared towards the characters rather than the story itself. He went on, explaining who was popular in comic books and why and then he got to graphic novels. He mentioned on graphic nobel, Maus. It was about the author's family in Nazi Germany, charactering his own family and the people in concentration camps (Jewish and others) as rats and the Nazis as cats. Sean said that this graphic novel was taken so well because they took a story and put their own, unique spin to it. It's not necessarily about the characters anymore: it's about the story, as I mentioned in my presentation. While I had to come up with the idea of what exactly a Trade Paperback was by myself, it was his comments on both comic books and graphic novels that helped me in my presentation.


What would you say stood out about your presentation performance and why?
- Considering how I couldn't see other performances, I couldn't really compare with those, so my answer for this might be a little... well, It just might not stand out. I think what stood out about my presentation performance is that I didn't try to create a poster. I talked with the class (even if they were a little unwilling) and I used actual source material rather than trying to recreate it myself. I personally think that is a better than doing a half-hearted poster or handout that would just confuse the class. I also liked how I talked with the class rather than at the class. I always try to do this when I'm presenting, but in years before I've actually gotten marked down for it because I'm "talking with the audience" when I'm supposed to be presenting. In my mind, it's one in the same. No one's going to pay attention if you talk at them. They want a part of the conversation too. So, why not let them? I mean, of course it has to have a little bit of regulation (also prompting in some cases) but it works out pretty well. I think that I did that pretty well.


What was the most challenging to do and why?
- Actually, the most challenging thing was to get people to talk. It was almost like they thought it would be rude to. I had talked to a few people before and they seemed pretty enthusiastic about my presentation, so it wasn't that they weren't paying attention... It was just a little out of the norm and no one wanted to break that. While it was fun trying to get them to break out of that little box that school culture has put them in, it was also challenging.