More than Sports and Scores
I
am currently working on an exciting comic project for a friend of mine.
My brothers Jack and Jeremy are joining me in the project (and
spearheading it), which will look at Guam's political status in a very
new way, through the unlikely narrative of sports. To comic will follow
the story of Roque Babauta, a Chamorro basketball player who gets
wrapped up in national and international politics. As part of it, I
wrote up a concept draft which outlined everything the way I was seeing
it. Jeremy has gone on to shake things up and make flow better and add
in more realism and details. Part of it is a sequence where a sports
commentator is ruminating on the connection between politics and sports.
Here is the first draft of it:
Too often even we who love sports, dismiss it as a diversion, as an opiate for the masses, a distraction from the world. But sports is the world itself. It is not a diversion, but a reflection, a mirror image. The wars between nations, sometimes settled o…
Too often even we who love sports, dismiss it as a diversion, as an opiate for the masses, a distraction from the world. But sports is the world itself. It is not a diversion, but a reflection, a mirror image. The wars between nations, sometimes settled o…