Although the events of “Sabrina” are horrific, I found it interesting that there is a sense of “everydayness” that runs throughout the story. This can be seen through the drawing of the characters, the color scheme used, etc. For example, I found that most of the characters did not have very distinct facial features. At first, I found this very jarring because it was hard to tell characters apart. It was as if everyone had the same face with different colored hair. But then, I realized that this could be because Drnaso wanted readers to focus on how the story could happen to anyone. Specifically, there is a focus on becoming desensitized to tragedies because so many occur. It is then very easy for the readers to put themselves in the place of the characters. I think the drawing of the characters aid to this.

Even the background designs and the color scheme are very plain, dull, and not as detailed. It just makes everything feel very normal. I don’t think I’ve seen it done much in any of the graphical novels that I’ve read (which is limited). I find Chloe (M)’s point about the moments in the novel in which the normal color scheme is interrupted to be very interesting also. For example, she talks about how Calvin has a dream about Sabrina’s murderer and it is in black and white (which doesn’t happen for many other scenes) and yet it is not a very accurate description of what happened. I found that the representation of the interpretations of the events of Sabrina’s death was very well done. They all occur through some normal medium (radio, emails, etc) against very normal, dull color schemes/ backgrounds. So, comparing this to Chloe’s point, new information changes our perception of events and this is shown in dreams and everyday settings, but using different stylistic choices.