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 a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of Flying Couch: a graphic memoir (a New York Times Editor's Choice and a Kirkus Best Memoir of 2016). Her writing, comics, and cartoons have also appeared in The Believer Magazine, Longreads, Lit Hub, Wired, Moment Magazine, Catapult, and many other places. She teaches widely and lives in Brooklyn.
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