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New Zine - Remembrance of a Show

Binge-watching a show makes you feel like you're in the 'thick' of the characters' situations including getting a feel for their individual strengths and weaknesses that make them who they are and why they choose certain paths of actions.  Doing so, you grow in empathy or disgust of them more quickly because you have far fewer interruptions than if you were watching one episode each week.

That is the way it was for me watching "Travelers" that is currently on Netflix.  The show ran from 2016-2018 (34 episodes total) and has an interesting premise.  That premise is that a super AI from a distant future monitors all actions/non-actions in the then current time as it tries to save humanity.  (As you might imagine, things are not going well for humans in the future.)  That said, the AI has the ability to transfer the consciousness of a being in the future to a person in the then current time--at the instant just before that person is about to die.  Those sent, or travelers as they call themselves, assemble in teams of five in which the AI gives them missions.  Those missions hopefully result in the elimination of situations that would negatively affect man's survival in the long-term future.  That's the essence of the storyline.  

What I like to do when I see a memorable show like this or read a memorable book, is to create a zine.  The finished zine becomes a token to quickly remind me of the show or book without having to re-watch or re-read the material.  

The photos below are of the cover and laid-out zine representing the 'Travelers' show to me.  It has fairly quick (and rough) sketches of the main characters together with keywords/phrases on the back page from the series.  

I had fun doing this!  I can see my thought process that includes the background color choice, the font I created for the titles, and the order of the sketches drawn (David, Marcy, Phil, Carly, Grant, and Trevor).  FYI...the images' order in the zine is different because it's the characters' order of appearance in the show.  In addition, the strange box-like lettering on the cover are imitations of those from the computer screen in the show.

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