AMI Micro Comic Competition
Micro Comic Comp Winners Announced
As part of Mental Health Awareness week, AMI hosted a comic competition to increase mental health awareness in STEM. The competition highlighted the importance of expressing oneself through various mediums, in this case via illustration, and provided AMI members an opportunity to share their experiences and feelings during such extraordinary times. We want to send a big thank you to everyone who participated in our comic competition and helped to make it a huge success. We are delighted to share below the Winner and Runners-Up of the AMI Micro Comic Competition!
Winning Comic
Marylette Roa
Taking charge of my thoughts
From time to time, I find myself spiralling into unhappiness. So, let me try to explain how I deal with crippling negative thoughts and show kindness to myself. Firstly, I acknowledge that the thoughts are present and do my best to pry myself away – although this sometimes takes a while and require a lot of effort. I examine my thoughts from an "outside" perspective looking in so that I can understand what is going on. Sometimes, this also leads me to accept that an explanation is not necessary nor possible at the moment. By allowing myself to engage with my thoughts, I feel better and more equipped to take charge of my feelings and actions afterwards.
Runners-Up
Elitsa Penkova
The Struggles of Lockdown
I am a final-year undergraduate student in my very final exam session. Due to COVID-19, my university replaced all my exams with essay assignments, which I have a few weeks to write in the comfort of my own home. At first, I was quite excited I won't have to go through the devastating one-hour rush to recall everything I've ever learnt and construct it into a sensible piece of work. Except, I failed to account for the fact it won't be just me working from home…
Anna Liuzzi
Office “mates”
Two PhD students working in a shared office PANEL 1: Character 1 leaning back in their chair looking exhausted but relieved. Character 2 working away on a computer Character 1: “I’ve done it! After years of hard work, I’ve finally finished my thesis!”
PANEL 2: Character 2 turns around to talk to Character 1 with a smirk, they had been waiting for this moment Character 2: “No way! You can’t B. cereus…. Get it? B. cereus, be serious”
PANEL 3: Character 1 head in hands, looking tired, character 2 continues trying to explain the joke, thinking character 1 has somehow missed the joke. The speech of Character 2 slowly gets smaller as if fading into the background noise Character 1: “I can’t wait to get out of this office” Character 2: “B. cereus, be serious, it’s funny, come on what happened to your sense of humour. I thought it was one of my best……”