How I Made This Comic About How I Make My Comics: An Interactive Essay
“I channel the dancer, the musician, choreographing space, orchestrating time.”
To read the text on this interactive comic, hover your mouse over each panel, or tap once on mobile.
Amy Kurzweil is the author of the debut graphic novel Flying Couch (Catapult/Black Balloon, 2016), which received a Kirkus star and is a Junior Library Guild pick. Her comics appear in The New Yorker and other publications. Her short stories have appeared in The Toast, Washington Square Review, Hobart, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. She teaches writing and comics at Parsons School of Design and at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Amy lives in Brooklyn.
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