These weekly assignments caught Fel’s attention.

“Meghan’s cartoons arrived as an unexpected delight in my performative inquiry class, and weekly became Meghan’s action site of inquiry and documentation of moments, issues, concerns that she encountered daily in her life, and as an art teacher in a high school,” says Fels.

As a result Fels, along with professor Michael Ling, encouraged Parker to take the leap and create a comic thesis.