Comic Walk - Katie Lavey
Ink on paper, digitally colored, printed and posted with wheatpaste
9 posters of various sizes
A thank you and goodbye to college, quarantines, and CU Boulder. Pasted around the walls of Boulder, this collection of cartoons, comic strips, and pages – presented as an art walk – celebrates this town, the people, and our little slice of life.
The pandemic radically changed life for everyone, and while I know, of course, that many people were in far more dire situations and suffered much more significant pain, but I think the 18-22 year olds of the world were uniquely short-changed this past year. It is arguably the most social period in an average person's life, and the social element is precisely what the pandemic demanded we give up. I know many, many groups have endured worse, but my age group has uniquely suffered from the pandemic, and I think it has made us a cohesive group in a way we weren't before. We're even more nostalgic for the first part of college; we're nervous about what lies ahead, but it also seems brighter than where we are now (especially as the pandemic hopefully slows), we're maybe a little bitter about what we could have had that others got. This is why I should make this piece because I've never felt more confident that everyone knows what I mean when I talk about how I feel.