• A paper doll-style illustration features the protagonist, a tall girl with glasses, standing on a small green platform wearing a tank top and red shorts, her legs unshaven. Surrounding her are various cut-out clothing pieces, including a school uniform consisting of a blue shirt, tie, and skirt, along with accessories like a black hoodie, a satchel, and a green alien mask. The title "UNIFORM" appears in bold black letters, with the subtitle: "Learning to navigate the official (and unofficial) high sc
  • The protagonist describes her daily routine of wearing school uniforms for years. In the morning, despite her mother's complaints, she would find her still-damp uniform clothes drying over the radiator, humorously labeled "TOASTY." A panel shows her walking to school in uniform, looking exhausted. A large close-up of her face expresses resignation as she narrates, "For over a decade, nine months out of the year, five days a week, I wore whatever uniform that was ordered by whichever school I was goin
  • The protagonist reflects on her struggles with school uniforms due to her height. A large panel humorously depicts her as "Tall Girl™," with her head literally above the clouds. She recalls her mother requesting larger and larger sizes for the uniform shirt just to accommodate her long arms, ending up with a comically oversized 3XL shirt. One panel shows her holding out an absurdly long sleeve. She thinks, "Maybe I can hide the nightgown length if I tuck the stupid shirt into my skirt." The final pan
  • A black ribbon labeled "Year 1" marks the protagonist's first year of high school. She sits among other uniformed students, narrating her unusual first week. At first, she was placed in a normal freshman class, but after taking a test that allowed her to skip a year, she was moved into a sophomore class. A panel shows a teacher leading her into the new classroom, where she feels out of place. A close-up of her nervous face is followed by a comical panel where she imagines herself as an alien, saying,
  • The protagonist narrates the unspoken rules of high school uniforms. The first panel shows various uniform clothing items laid out, as she explains that students are not meant to wear the uniform exactly as instructed. The next panels show examples of small modifications: colored Converse shoes with customized laces, skirts worn shorter than knee height, zipped hoodies replacing uniform sweaters, and rolled-up sleeves. The last panel depicts her standing awkwardly in an oversized shirt, thinking, "My
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Nur Schuba

Uniform

Uniform

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Learning to navigate the official (and unofficial) high school dress code

Uniform is a humorous short black and white comic about trying your hardest to modify your high school uniform to be your unique self... only to be exactly the same as everyone else.

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Nur Schuba

Nur Schuba is a Turkish-American illustrator, editor, geoscientist... And maybe also a shivering anxious chihuahua? No one knows for sure. She lives in Austin, TX. Nur does geological research by day and makes comics by night.

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