Canto Cutie - Volume 2

You use graphite as a texture for a lot
of your comics, and the way you use
it has this very bold and animated
quality about it, but also a very
intimate quietness throughout. Can
you talk more about the relationship
you have with your chosen medium?
I am drawn to how pencil allows me
to feel as if I am working in dra!-
mode. The tangible and erase-able
quality expresses a sense of
exploration and play in my work. As
many of the moments I draw in pencil
are quiet and meditative, the humble
material of graphite, which may
remind us of taking tests in school or
even drawing as a child, brings me
back to a sense of beginning again,
with every new panel.
You create a lot of risograph zines of
your work, how did you come to
discover this medium?
risograph
I had collected many riso zines and
prints from places like Odds and Ends
Art Book Fair and New York Art Book
Fair before ever making my own, and
it felt like a dream come true to work
in that medium for the first time in
summer 2018.
Odds and Ends
2018
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