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Make Good Comics (a comic about making comics)

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   So I recently finished up my second school year, and I made a comic for my final project. We were tasked to make a short autobiographical graphic novel. You can read it for free here !     The story follows an artist who wants to make good comics, but struggles with figuring out what sort of narrative they want to tell.     It's something I personally have a hard time with, as well. Often I feel like I have to provide some kind of deep or nuanced insight with my personal comics. Ironically, this pressure tends to make it harder for me to make something meaningful to myself. I remember talking to a lot of my comic artist friends about this, and I found it was actually quite a common phenomenon amongst my friends.     I had a lot of fun with this project. Since I've been making comics for fun in my own free time for the last four-ish years, I wanted to try something new and experimental in order to push my own limits. I ended up going for a semi-mixed media comic, using techni