Maose: A Comic
Announcing, my first mini-comic in a real long time (did you know I used to make these things?): Maose: A Comic. Twenty-four pages of comic excitment… or well it is a comic. It’s an autobiographical story about my battles with the mouse that moved into our apartment in September.
I’ve tried to get away from autobiographical work, but this was just such a visual thing that I decided I had to draw it. To compensate for the autobiography I decided on a little constraint for my story, I wouldn’t draw any people. Now, I did end up including a part of a person at the end, and there are a few photo references of three famous dictators on one page. But those aren’t really people in the normal comics sense.
What happened, and it only occured to me the other day, is that I ended up creating a comic that was not only written in the first person but also visually in the first person. Most autobiographical comics you read are written in the first person but are visually in the third person (James Kolchalka’s writing about his life with an “I”, but he’s showing himself as a “he”). That’s something I never really considered before, the possible disconnect that can come between the narrative and the visuals in a point-of-view sense rather than in the way that Ware’s “I Guess” has one story in pictures and one in words.
Anyway, Maose is a 24 page printout with a cardstock cover, 5.5″ x 8.5″. I set it up so it can be ordered with PayPal over on my new Store page, which will hopefully grow more extensive as I finish more non-web comics. If you have comics to trade, send me an email. You can also see a few previews at the Store page.
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