I’ve started making comics! I’ve loved the medium since I was a kid, and even did some educational comics work at various tech companies. There’s a lot of research that combining images, text, humor, characters, and narrative improves comprehension and retention of information.

And they’re fun! I’m finding that it’s a great medium for storytelling because you can pack a lot of emotion and ancillary information into the art. Sometimes my subconscious will sneak something into the comic that I don’t notice until the end.

It’s hard and super rewarding. It’s been a long time since I’ve done something creative that tells “my” stories.

It was somewhat audacious of me to start making comics, since I’ve never studied art before, and I’m now mumble-mumble years old. So I’m taking lots of classes and learning lots, and accepting that the art is evolving. Though I must say, I find a lot of things fun about it even in these early days.

I’m sharingh my comics via Patreon. A lot of the content is publicly available, and you can “follow” me on Patreon for free to get all my public posts delivered to your inbox. If you’re interested in that, you can find me at patreon.com/synemitchell.

I’m going to keep this blog for talking about personal things I get up to that are not comics. Like a bookbinding class I took recently, prose fiction I’m working on, what’s on my loom, and fun things like that. 🙂