Xavier Sander's Outsiders Comic Book

For my project I chose to do a comic book of chapter 4 of The Outsiders. It is the section of the book where Ponyboy and Johnny get cornered by Socs who take their grudge too far, forcing Johnny to make a hard decision which is whether or not to take somebody's life to save another. This is one of the hardest projects I've ever done because I procrastinated on my work and had to stay up all night, a couple of nights to finish it. The first step was to find sketches of The Outsiders characters that other artists had already drawn to get ideas on how I was going to draw my comic characters. I came across this Chibi version of Two-Bit and I thought it was cool. Chibi is an art style where characters are drawn with big heads and little bodies and so I went with it. Next was searching for comic book templates to draw on. I found a website that was very helpful and had everything I needed. I printed out the pages and I was ready to start sketching. I sketched on a blank piece of paper to map out the sequence of events I was going to draw because I didn't want to have a lot of erase marks on my final comic book. When I had an idea of how to draw my characters, I began drawing on the templates. I had to create speech bubbles and put words within them to make the book whole. At one point I decided to redo my drawings because I thought my drawings could be better and as an artist I'm very particular. But deciding to do this cost me more time than what I had since I got started late in the beginning. After that I had to ink the pictures in pen, which actually took less time than I expected. Next was coloring my illustrations which required the most attention to detail and neatness. I had to be very careful not to color outside the lines and once that task was done my comic book was almost complete. Then I taped my pages onto colored construction paper and placed them in sheet protectors that went into a binder. My project was at last complete. The most enjoyable part of my project was looking at how other artists visualized the characters of The Outsiders. It was really interesting. I hope you enjoy reading this comic and recommend it to your friends to read as well. Excelsior!!! ("Over and Beyond!")

Below are the comic book drawings from my project with captions decribing various scenes I chose from Chapter 4 of The Outsiders.


COVER PAGE 1 PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4
This is the Pony and Pony and Bob,Randy Pony is
hand of Bob Johnny are Johnny are and 3 other provoked
the Soc,wearing alerted of the shocked that Socs step out by Bob &
his 3 iconic rings. Socs presence. the Socs are of their blue spits on
out of their Mustang. Bob him.Things
territory. What and Randy are get ugly
do they want? the boyfriends when Pony
of Cherry and gets drowned!
Marcia.



PAGE 5 PAGE 6 PAGE 7 PAGE 8 PAGE 9
Air...air... Pony finally There he lies Johnny tells Pony panicks!
air! If Pony comes to and Bob the Soc, Pony what What willl he do?
doesn't get finds Johnny doubled up in happened. Johnny calms him
out soon,he'll more shaken up the moonlight. Ponyboy Curtis's down and gives
drown! than ever. What's life just got a lot him the only
wrong? more complicated. solution to their
problem...
Dallas Winston.