Here’s a piece that I contributed to Critical Chips, which was edited by Zainab Akhtar (Comics & Cola). Critical Chips was just nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Comics Related Periodical/Journalism! You can buy the book here.
I have been largely absent from Tumblr this year, mostly because I’ve been super busy with life stuff, but I figured that I should post a comics year in review. Here’s what I was up to this year:
2016 was a rough year for many of us. For me, it was not as productive as I had hoped due to work and commuting challenges. Some of my projects stalled temporarily or went slower than I had hoped. And the election and sociopolitical climate was discouraging, maddening, you name it. On the plus side I got to know some great creators, traveled to some fun comics shows, and had the opportunity to talk about my work to some appreciative audiences. I feel fortunate for all of that.
I don’t know what’s in store for 2017. I’m trying to take it day by day. But in terms of comics, I am looking forward to some projects, including co-editing Comics for Choice with Hazel Newlevant and O.K. Fox, doing some more short webcomics, resuming some projects I had to put aside, and putting out a book later in the fall (details TBA).
May you all have a restful and peaceful holiday season and see you all next year!
So, in case you didn’t see, I’m finally cashing in all the good will I’ve been building up.
Okay…that makes it sound horrible and this if for charity, so I’m just really glad to finally let you all know about something amazing. The list of creators is in the article, so rather than listing everybody’s credits right here, I’m going to try and hit you with some twitter handles for people working on our Princeless anthology so you can go find their other amazing work yourselves!
It’s clear that Taylor did some serious soul-searching and healing in order to produce this book, and the narrative reflects the intensity of that journey. She points to the vastness of evolution, the infiniteness of the universe, and the richness of epic storytelling through her encounters with her idols. And then she zooms in on the finite, the smaller instances of single life spans with individual stories of loss, letting go and death. And finally, she confronts her own story and somehow balances it between those two extreme benchmarks. The resolution: a deep exhale, and acceptance that, even in mid-sentence (which is how the book ends), you can really, truly learn to let things go. But that takes a long time and a lot of dedicated work to do that.
