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A Little Encouragement

Often I ask myself why I bother to pursue creating comics. It probably has something to do with how they make me feel and that they are a sincere expression of who I am; what I’m about. It’s also fun…

My Comic Conversion

By Amanda Eike Koehler Since my late-in-life introduction to comics I haven’t gone a month without hitting up the public library for the next one on my list. I wouldn’t call it an addiction, but at this point I don’t…

01 A look at design in comics

Texture, Direction, Loud/ Quiet and Straight /Curved by Ted Intorcio I just finished reading The Envelope Manufacturer by Chris Oliveros; a dark comedy and winding-tale set in the ‘50s about a man, Jack Cluthers, struggling to keep his micro-manufacturing company…

A Newbie’s Take on Comics

By Amanda Eike Koehler Until 2015, my knowledge of comics centered around Sunday strips and the antics of Calvin and Hobbes. I read chapter books at an early age and decided that pictures meant kids’ stories—superheroes, cutesy characters, stuff for…

Fantasy’s Dirty Little Secret

Fantasy’s dirty little secret. Superheroes and fantasy…zombies. Trolls. Magic. Dragons. Mind powers, dimensional travel. If the art of the comic is a medium, why is so much of it centered around the single genre of mindless escapism that has saturated…