KARMA: A Graphic Nano Fiction

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Nano Fiction: A short, short story, told in 300 words or less. Not to be confused with Twitter 140 characters or Ernest Hemingway’s six-word story, "For sale, Baby shoes, Never worn."

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I wrote Karma in the summer 2013. It's part of a series of short stories I'm writing and developing into Graphic Novella entitled, Cruel Games Played On Each Other.

Using icons sampled from the Noun Project, I adapted Karma into a graphic nano fiction for Stellar, a mobile photo album sharing platform.

Significant changes were made on all icons to meet the art direction. Part of the art direction was to modify the crispness of each icon and make it grotesque and all at once naive, much-like the imaginative drawings of a child.

The author of each icon is properly attributed within the pages of the published Stellar.

The font style used is Child's Play by Thomas G. Goss.

The icons were combined to create story panels that properly support the narrative without overshadowing it. Important portions of the panels were left empty to add the text.

The narrative was laid on the empty portion of the story panel. After uploading some panels onto Stellar and testing the app it became clear that the text size and choice of colour were causing reading issues. To resolve this issue I decided to use an old framing method I used when I was a child, writing on scotch tape with a felt marker.