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, Lenny Letter, The Awl, The Toast, Catapult, and many other places. She teaches comics at The Fashion Institute of Technology and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn.
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