Issue 24: Featured Writer & Artist Steenz | Featured Artist Gina Hunt
"I love making comics and zines! I find so much joy and humor in the world around me and being able to translate that to the page is what excites me..."
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Happy Pride Month!
We’re back with brilliant new work from our curated team of writers Bec Bell-Gurwitz, Anuradha Prasad, Anna Reeser, and Dey Rivers; and artists Liz Asch, Christine Shan Shan Hou, Fid Thompson, and Jordan Tierney.
We’re also thrilled to share the work of Steenz, an award-winning cartoonist, editor, and professor. They are currently authoring and illustrating the the Ringo Award-Nominated syndicated daily comic strip Heart Of The City. Steenz is also the co-creator of Dwayne McDuffie Award-Winning GN Archival Quality and is featured in short story anthologies such as Eisner and Ignatz Award-Winning Elements: Fire, Mine!, and Dead Beats.
Steenz says about their work:
Sequential Art and Visual Storytelling is my passion. I love making comics and zines! Being able to get a story across with as few lines as possible makes cartooning magical. I find so much joy and humor in the world around me and being able to translate that to the page is what excites me.
I like to keep notes of little jokes and ideas in my phone. That way when I sit down to create I know what I'll be working on. For my syndicated strip, I write 3 months’ worth of daily comics at a time and then complete the strips about 4 weeks before they're due to newspapers! The process for graphic novels is a lot more detailed with regard to editorial, print specs, and whatnot!
Right now, I'm working on finishing my latest graphic novel, Side Quest: A Graphic Novel History of TTRPGs. (TTRPGs are tabletop roleplaying games). It's a long process and a LOT of research, so I'll be really happy once the book is complete!
Read Lost and Found.
Issue 24’s Featured Artist Gina Hunt lives and works in Chicago, where she is a faculty member in the Drawing, Painting and Printmaking Department at Loyola University Chicago. Gina has recently presented solo exhibitions at Syracuse University, (Syracuse, New York), The Franklin (Chicago, Illinois), 65GRAND (Chicago, Illinois), Western Pole (Chicago, Illinois), STNDRD Projects (St. Louis, Missouri), University Galleries at Illinois State University (Normal, Illinois), and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (Doha, Qatar), among others.
Her work has been included in recent group shows at The Plan (Chicago, Illinois), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Chicago, Illinois), Cleve Carney Art Gallery (Glen Ellyn, Illinois), Heaven Gallery (Chicago, Illinois), Drew University (Madison, New Jersey), Baby Blue Gallery (Chicago, Illinois), Practise (Oak Park, Illinois), DEMO Project (Springfield, Illinois), E. Tay Gallery (New York City, New York), Elmhurst Art Museum (Elmhurst, Illinois), Hoffman LaChance Contemporary (St. Louis, Missouri), Front Room Gallery (Brooklyn, New York), and The Soap Factory (Minneapolis, Minnesota), among others.
Gina says of her work:
Finding expansive possibilities within a limited means fascinates me, as does the potential for a material object to incite a perceptual event that belies its inherent physical ‘facts’.
My multidisciplinary practice fuses painting, sculpture, and site-responsive installation. Research interests include histories of abstraction, theories of color and perception, and imaging technologies spanning early photographic processes to spectroscopy.
Projects explore the physical, spatial relationships largely within the bounds of painting to ask questions about the complexities and subjectivity of vision, color, and perception. Working extensively with canvas, dye, paint, scrim, and wood, the process-based works are sites of perceptual phenomena while remaining rooted in a material-based physicality…
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