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1. What drew you to comics?
I've loved comics in one way or another since I was a kid. I used to read the funny pages every day after school and in middle school discovered an obsessive love for manga and anime. It wasn't until after college that I really considered it as a career, though. I had been trying to make it as an editorial illustrator and was feeling a bit lost when I started going to zine fests with friends and making my own zines and mini comics to sell. The realization that comics didn't have to fit in these little stylistic boxes of "newspaper", "manga", or "superhero" was a bit revelatory (I was late to the indie comic genre) for me. Figuring out that comics really can be anything and you can tell a story in any style, genre, or medium was eye opening. When I made my first zine and got it printed and was able to hand sell them to readers who would take them into their homes and enjoy them, something really clicked for me. In comics you have a one to one connection to the people enjoying your work that I had never felt with illustration work. 2. Please tell us about your creative process.
Every project is a little different. Sometimes I work incredibly collaboratively, sharing story input and notes with the writer I'm working with. Sometimes I write my own scripts. Sometimes I get handed a completed script and have to go from there. But every project requires research, planning, and designing before you even start on page 1. Once I've got my characters, style, and world in order I can move on to the actual storytelling process. I like to be really familiar with the script and know where it's going and then I just dive into making thumbnail layouts for every page. I like to experiment with process and every project ends up being a little different. I've worked in chunks, start to finish on 5 pages at a time, I've completed all my thumbnails, then all my pencils, then inks and colors. I've worked traditionally, digitally, a mix of the two. It's all dictated by what I think will serve the story (and my scatterbrain) best in that moment.
3. Please tell us the ingredients to a successful collaboration as an artist.
1) Have a good rapport with your collaborator. 2) Don't get defensive about ideas or criticisms. 3) Have fun!
4. Any message for kids who are young creators?
Don't let fear of making bad work stop you. You have to get all that bad work out and learn in the process to get to the point where you're happy to share what you make with the world. Start small and don't put too much pressure on the early projects. Or in other words, just start making!
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