Front Cover by Ikia Nelson
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RENAISSANCE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS CARTOONING CLASS, SPRING 2015 The RSA Cartoonists: Jaynise Barreira Jesus Reyes Daevon Langhorn Lisandro Lucero Britney Mejia Juan Montanez Ikia Nelson Thomas Owens Nevaeh Whyte Kristina Williams Lorenzo Zapata Nancy Sierra Keyla Flores Britney Mejia Daevon Langhorn
Creative Art Works Teaching Artist: Jessie Novik Citizen Schools Teaching Assistant: Rebekah Russell
Creative Art Works improves the lives of thousands of NYC youth each year through in-school and out-of-school-time classes, community art-making events, and youth employment creating large-scale public art or multi-media projects. Our programs build confidence, unlock a love of learning, and teach valuable technical and developmental skills while creating profound connections between our young constituents, their art and their communities. Students are never charged for participation. Creative Art Works is a 501(c)(3). EIN #13-3638436. To become a volunteer, sponsor a program, partner with us, or commission youth-created art for your public space, visit us at: www.creativeartworks.org. Š Creative Art Works, all rights reserved.
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DAEVON LANGHORN CHARACTER NAME: Elementor Real Name: Danny C. Occupation: Undercover Agent Height: 8 ft. Weight: 300 lbs Eyes: blue Hair: brown Powers: Speed, elemental powers: regeneration, immortality Weaknesses: Solar Eclipse Allies: North Star, Vortex, Big Shot, The Golden Vortex, Dark hood, Solar, Dr. Electricts Foes: Thunder AKA Magma and XJP Origin: Danny C was working as an undercover agent. They wanted him to contain this galaxy crystal. While he was handling it, it bonded with him causing him to transform into Elementor! Immediately, his body grew armor made of milnor (indestructible metal) and he realized he could make anything from the milnor so he made his own weapons and he created L.L. Destroyer.
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KEYLA FLORES
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NANCY SIERRA
“La Catrina” Once when Karen had problems in her life, she decided to be a “Catrina” (Skull). Karen went to a witch’s house. Karen asked her for her to change her into a “Catrina.” The witch said “of course love.” Karen’s life was miserable before she was changed into a real “Catrina.” Her mother and father assassinated people. Karen decided to do the same thing. Now Karen has powerful strength. She can turn you into a skull if she wanted to even if you mess around with her. Karen now lives underground where her treasures are. Among her treasures there are a bunch of skulls and bones all around. Karen’s enemies wanted to kill her. Her enemies were vampires. Vampires wanted to kill her because Karen destroyed their family. But her enemies were wrong... “La Catrina” killed everyone!
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THOMAS OWENS CHARACTER NAME: Magma Real Name: Thomas Occupation: School Location: Coney Island Height: 6’ 5” Eyes: Brown Hair: Braided Powers: Speed and flight Weaknesses: Water Allies: Thunder and XJ9 Foes: Dr. Electricity and Blob and L.L. Destroyer Education: College Group Affiliation: Team PowerKids Origin: They came from planet T. XJ0 was made by scientists. Captain Magma was born into lava. Thunder was originally a normal teen human but when he was struck by lightning, he survived but he passed out. When they took him to the hospital, the doctors didn’t know if he’d survive, but he suddenly woke up out of a deep sleep. His parents were very worried about him. The medical team ran some tests to see if he was okay. His parents took him home. Yesterday during school his friends were playing basketball and were concerned for him because they heard about it on the news. They told him to take it easy. Thomas said it was okay and not to worry. One of his friends threw the ball and missed the shot, so the ball was coming towards him. Rod (AKA Magma) told Thomas to move out of the way and just like that he moved so fast and got out of the way.
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DAEVON LANGHORN CHARACTER NAME: Elementor Real Name: Danny C. Occupation: Undercover Agent Height: 8 ft. Weight: 300 lbs Eyes: blue Hair: brown Powers: Speed, elemental powers: regeneration, immortality Weaknesses: Solar Eclipse Allies: North Star, Vortex, Big Shot, The Golden Vortex, Dark hood, Solar, Dr. Electricts Foes: Thunder AKA Magma and XJP Origin: Danny C was working as an undercover agent. They wanted him to contain this galaxy crystal. While he was handling it, it bonded with him, causing him to transform into Elementor! Immediately, his body grew armor made of milnor (indestructible metal) and he realized he could make anything from the milnor so he made his own weapons and he created L.L. Destroyer.
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NEVAEH WHYTE CHARACTER NAME: Cowgirl Real Name: Isabella Occupation: She makes milk and helps clean Height: 5’3” Weight: 280 Eyes: blue/purple Hair: brown Powers: Milk comes out of her hands. Weaknesses: hair Allies: Sophia Foes: Nakiesha Education: 8th grade middle school Group Affiliation: art Origin: Isabella Pillar was a farm girl who worked with her dad on how to raise cows. During looking it up and taking care of them, she finally realized that she wanted to put herself in the cows shoes. Isabella made a wish when she looked out her window and saw a shooting star to be half cow and half human. So the next morning she started realizing that she was changing and reminded herself about her wish and passed out. Furthermore, she woke up and noticed that she was half human and half cow. After that she wanted to hide because she was ashamed and then she started to think to herself that she couldn’t just hide from the world and she was then known as the first girl to be half human and half cow.
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LORENZO ZAPATA Character Name: Enzo Real Name: Enzo Occupation: Superhero Base (Current Location): Avenger Mansion Height: 6’3” Weight: 300 lb. Eyes: gold Hair: black Powers: Fly, and density Weaknesses: none Allies: Avengers Foes: Ultron Origin: Enzo was created by a robot. He was constructed from Vibranium found in New York. Enzo was meant to be evil, but his biometry got messed up so he sided with the heroes and destroyed his evil creator. He currently lives in the Avengers’ Mansion, working alongside the Avengers to create peace.
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KRISTINA WILLIAMS Character Name: Ling Ling Real Name: Ling Ling Chung Occupation: help save people Base: outside Height: 5’4” Weight: 70 Eyes: light brown Hair: brown Powers: everything/vampire Weaknesses: junk food (candy, chips, etc) Allies: Kiing Jayy Foes: Ikia Education: High School Origin: The character is from the projects. This character has been alone all her life. She lost her parents at the age of three in a car crash. She figured out she had powers two years after, when she was in the woods finding wood to make a fire, because it was cold. She coughed and fire came out on the wood. Then she was scared. So, she was thinking about having powers and then she wondered if she thought about something would it happen? She thought about something simple, like ice cream, and it appeared! So, she started practicing her powers and helped people out. She did not know how to control her powers, so she hurt people by accident. For example, one day, she was walking across the street and a man bumped into her. She thought, “I hope he has bad luck for being so rude.” And he immediately got hit by a car. She got scared and ran home, and stood there forever scared because she hurt someone, so she learned how to use her powers and visited the man in the hospital. She tried to explain but he called her a freak and she cried. But she showed him she wasn’t lying by healing his pain. 18
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LISANDRO LUCERO
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JESUS REYES
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BRITNEY MEJIA
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JUAN MONTANEZ
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Back Cover by Keyla Flores
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