divert.

A comic created in Polly Guo’s Fall 2024 comics intensive, “divert.” is an exploration of purely visual storytelling. It tells the story of a young explorer who embarks on a voyage to the bottom of the ocean in her bubble-shaped submarine. Unfortunately for her, things don’t go as planned.

The title is a four-way pun: “divert” as a word on its own, its spelling being one letter removed from “diver”, “divert” being a navigation command issued when there’s obstacles in a vessel’s path, and the combination of “dive” and “invert” that refers to the story itself.

Completed: February 2025

Media: Digital (Procreate for sketch, lines, and grayscale; Photoshop for color)