y The World of Carla Speed McNeil H 28 Featured Artist Carla Speed McNeil, author and artist of the award-winning Finder series, started working in comics in 1997 and hasn’t stopped since. The images shown here are primarily from Finder: Third World, the first full-color volume — initially serialized and then published in full by Dark Horse Comics in 2014. This Finder adventure proves to be a massive, eye-opening turning point in the life of Jaeger, a major character in this mysterious, complex, sci-fi world. In addition, Speed has included here three black/white panels from her new story “Written in Stone,” which will appear in her latest sci-fi anthology project, New World, involving cultures in collision. Finder is a long-running science fiction drama that Speed self-published for over a decade (including later <strong>issue</strong>s serialized through Lightspeed Press). Since 2011, in addition to new volumes, Dark Horse Comics has republished eight of the earlier graphic novels as two lovely Libraries. They follow various main characters, including a young girl whose first love is a book, a college girl majoring in The Art, which, when capitalized, makes her more like a geisha than Banksy, and a wandering pathfinder with one foot in another world. The collected editions of Finder contain extensive footnotes by the author, which expand upon the ideas and comment on their origins. Speed uses the phrase “aboriginal SF” to describe Finder. “Ab origine” is a pre- Roman term meaning “original inhabitants.” It means, essentially, someone who’s been in a place since the earliest time and generally refers to people who lived close to the earth, or whose ancestors did. People travel; people settle; people look at each other and embrace or else fight. People see kin; people see enemies. Push and shove over territory may not be as old as the hills, but it is as old as King of the Mountain. Aboriginal science fiction deals with alien societies. Finder’s aliens are all one family, but their coming to understand that isn’t going to happen easily. In addition to ten printed volumes of Finder, Speed has worked on a variety of projects like Queen & Country, Vol. 5. Operation: Stormfront, written by Greg Rucka (Oni Press Inc.). She adapted and drew Pendragon: The Merchant of Death (based on the prose book by D. J. Mac- Hale) for Simon & Schuster, drew for fan-favorite Frank Ironwine by Warren Ellis (Apparat/Avatar), as well as two pages of Transmetropolitan, also by Warren Ellis (DC/Vertigo). Bad Houses, created with writer Sara Ryan, was released in 2013 by Dark Horse Comics. Then Speed began a series of collaborations with writer Alex De Campi, drawing part of her book Ashes, an <strong>issue</strong> of My Little Pony (IDW), and a new miniseries called No Mercy (Image) that began in April 2015. Speed has been nominated eight times for an Eisner award and won once. She has won two Ignatz awards and the Kim Yale New Talent award from Friends Of Lulu. She also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for graphic novel in 2012 and three Stumptown Comic Arts Awards. http://www.carlaspeedmcneil.com/ Finder: Third World, p. 104 n
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