In one paragraph, explain in your own words what four factors you believe make an author/ artist most “credible” when it comes to telling stories like the kinds we’re reading in Maus, Part One by Art Spiegelman and Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. By “credible,” I mean more believable and more trustworthy, things that assure you that the story details you are reading are truthful versus lies, exaggerations, or mistakes.

Options may include any of the topics we’ve considered the past two weeks: art choices (like color or its absence; depicting characters as animals versus humans; art style); sharing intimate details (even ones that a reader may find shocking or shameful, like nudity or scandals or secrets); tone (especially towards their fathers); the structure of the story itself (chronological or divided up); any reference to factual or historical details or “evidence,” whether drawn, cited, or shared, etc. You may choose any number of these factors or you may choose your own factors, or you may choose any combination of the above options and your own.

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