![]() ![]() Can you let the readers know about Jam House? In your case, it’s a little different than most. KS: I like to ask about artists’ work spaces or studio setup. It was the first time I really felt that spark of confidence like, “Oh yeah. That I could tell a legible story and produce it as fast as I would need to. ![]() I had just tried inking with a brush, and I had learned just enough of everything else that while this short was still a far cry from professional, I knew that I was getting the basics. MB: Hmmm, in that case, I would say it was this very strange short story I did at the end of my first year at SCAD. KS: What was your first “real” comics project? I’m looking for something that, once it was completed, gave you a sense that you could really make this happen. So I applied to SCAD’s MFA sequential art program (because I had no idea how to do that on my own) and went from there. I was working a really horrible day job, in San Francisco, during the recession, and I was like “I have to figure something out.” The only thing I could really think that I wanted to do for a living, the only real passion I had that had never stopped, was to make comics. But it didn’t transform from an abstract idea into a serious career pursuit until after I graduated college. When I was young and anyone would ask what you wanted to do when you grew up, that was the answer. MB: I think I always knew in my heart I wanted to make comics. KS: From those early reading days, what originally set you on the path toward an art career? Was there a specific “a-ha” moment you can pinpoint? While all my friends were waiting for their letter from Hogwarts, I was waiting for my magical animal familiar to tell me I was a secret space queen, haha. ![]() I loved “chosen one” stories about kids who were leading average lives but were secretly this cool, awesome being the universe needed. MB: I was pretty young, maybe 10? Pretty much big shout-out to Sailor Moon for that, which was definitely my die-hard favorite and most formative comic for many years. KS: Talk a little more about that early exposure to manga. I got into manga when I was pretty little, and once I learned that I could draw stories, I was off. You can ask any of my poor friends or family who has had to hear the same story 100 times because I love telling them. I love being an artist, but what got me into art was storytelling, and I am a storyteller at heart. Morgan Beem: Well, I would say it’s only ever really been comics for me. Swamp Thing: Twin Branches (DC - October 2020)įanbase Press Contributor Kevin Sharp: Big question first… Why comics? What attracts you to working in comics specifically over other artforms? Your specialties (artist/writer/letterer/inker/etc.): Artist This fall, she teams with bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater on a Swamp Thing original graphic novel from DC. Since then, her artwork has appeared in both physical and web comics, as well as for various illustration clients outside the industry. Once Morgan Beem was bitten by the comics bug early in life, she never lost sight of her ultimate artistic career goal. ![]()
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