For this comic book page, I wanted to base it on the subject of remembering the Japanese internment that occurred in America. To do this, I incorporated two important pieces of keeping the memory of what happened alive.

The first was the ichi-ni-san logo, which was created by Frank Fuji (the logo is the big image covering the comic page). This logo was made to represent that the “three generations of Japanese America are bound by a circle, and the figures entwined with the barbed wire of the American concentration camps.” (The First Day of Remembrance, Thanksgiving Weekend 1978). This logo is still used today for the remembrance of the Japanese American internment.

The second piece I incorporated into my comic book page, was the names of the Japanese American internees who were brought to the same internment camp as George Takei (faint words in the boxes on the comic page). George Takei is an American actor and author. He was the one who wrote a very famous graphic novel called, “They Called Us Enemy.” In this novel, George tells the story of his life and what he went through having to leave his home and life behind to go live in an internment camp. To add to his novel, George made an expanded edition of “They Called Us Enemy.” It is in this expanded edition, that George includes a page where he names the internees who were with him. I added their names to my comic to show that these Japanese Americans are still remembered for the time they spent wrongfully locked away in a camp.