Acknowledgements
Special thanks goes out to the following people who generously donated their time and or money to help with this project.
My family really helped a lot during this project, especially my dad (Allen Yee). Without his tech savviness, I would have a lot of trouble creating the website as well as filling out the proper forms needed to make this a successful comic book. My mom (Qing-Wen Yee) really helped me construct the story for the comic book, helped me proof-read whenever I had a new draft of the comic book and translated a digital copy of my comic book into Chinese. Finally my sister, Adelyne, helped with some of the artwork as well as tell her classmates and friends about the comic book.
For my project advisor, Danielle Driscoll, I am speechless for all the help you provided throughout the project. From constantly encouraging me and helping with the financial aspect of the project, I am forever grateful for your sincere help. Thank you for your expertise in anti-tobacco work and proof-reading the facts in my comic book. Especially coming up with the idea to use the pictures that I drew of my comic book into a short film with voice-overs was an awesome and innovative idea that just adds another dimension to my project.
My friends also helped me with this project. Two of my friends, Amrita Kaler and Maryam Nekaien, continued supporting me throughout the project, and their excitement after reading my comic book filled me up with happiness and pride. Another friend, Lilianna Morales, helped with translating the comic book into Spanish to reach a hopefully wider audience. One of other friends, Thuong Pham, also worked to translate the comic book to Vietnamese and created a beautiful image for me. I'm truly touched by Thuong's initiative as she readily volunteered herself to translate the comic book and her amazing art skills. I finally want to thank Samuel Tong, a friend that led a similar project- an anti-vaping video series for teens in my high school. When researching and working on this video series, I was able to improve my art skills for when I drew my comic book digitally and have a better idea of the types of facts I wanted to include in the comic book.
Thank you to all the people involved with voice acting in the short film I created:
• Aria Young: Adelyne Yee
• Logan Young (Dad): Allen Yee
• Ms. Lee/Young (Mom): Qing-Wen Yee
• Facts Narrator: Alyson Yee
• Claire: Maryam Nekaien
• Hannah: Amrita Kaler
• Mr. Clark: Samuel Tong: Vaping Project Videos - YouTube
• Dr. Mark: Matthew Tong
• Vet Assistant: Olivia Tong
• Girl in Bathroom #1: Kylah Avila
• Girl in Bathroom #2: Hazel Belman
• Mr. Q: Anthony Tong: https://www.tonytongbooks.com/
• Teacher: Alyson Yee
• Girl Offering Vape: Alyson Yee
Thank you to Mary Jo Cravatta, for keeping me healthy in the process of creating my comic book. Thank you to Tara Sharpp, my Girl Scout Troop Leader, and my high school Medical Pathways teacher, Jennifer Wulsin, for encouraging me throughout this project.
These are all the donors who helped fund the free paper copies of my comic book for Elk Grove teens.
• Girl Scouts Heart of Central California
• Danielle Driscoll
• My family
• Po Lau
• Kayla Smith
• Lan Nguyen
• Kimberly Turong
• Cyndi Vang
• Tam Jacobson
• Angel
• Sharleen Woods
• Mike
• Byron Fong
Finally, I would like to thank Jim Anderson from RA Comics Direct for giving me multiple discounts whenever I printed paper versions of my comic book. Check out and support RA Comics Direct to print your own comic book!
Thank you all for your contributions. Without all of your help, my comic book would not be as impactful. If you are interested in making a donation to print free copies of my comic book for Elk Grove teens, please click here to contact us!
