Comic Booth

Hello, my name is Payton McDougall. I’m a graphic designer and illustrator working towards my Bachelor’s degree, who just so happens to be a writing hobbyist in my spare time. For my senior project, I combined my love of graphic design and illustration into a comic campaign series using an independent study I’ve been working on since fall of 2024 called “Dreamer’s Paradox”. Since I specialize in using my design abilities for advertising/branding and entertainment, the campaign features a variety of potential deliverables, mock-ups, comic pages, concept pages, and a themed booth for marketing. “Dreamer’s Paradox” is a tie between my roots as a designer and as an obsessed comic book enthusiast. I’ve always loved flipping through pages of whatever visual novels I could get my hands on, not just to evaluate the literal story, but how the pages are organized and stylized to convey emotion and invoke interest. As a result, storytelling has been a key base layer in all my design work. This evolution has helped guide each of my projects into growing from a simple concept to an abundantly layered narrative.