When it comes to creating characters and story, Alexander-Tanner explained that his biggest incentive is real life situations and scenarios. “I like talking to people, a lot. Like getting really connected. Making comics is very solitary work which I don’t like”, Alexander-Tanner states. “I’m not a type of person who wants to just sit in a room and not interact with anyone for hundreds of hours. It just goes against my nature which has been a big struggle in this work. So I really like the parts when I’m talking with people or getting information”(Alexander-Tanner). He uses real people for his comics and bases the content and/or storyline around them. Sometimes this entails a made up storyline around the person, but most commonly Alexander-Tanner
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“I was the editor of Red Rock yearbook, I was the editor of the West Sedona Middle School yearbook, and I was the editor of my college yearbook so I knew that I was an editor and a writer, and I knew that I loved comics and animation. So it was like ‘well how do I get in there with these skills’ ” (Watters). This launched her career into play and gave her an opportunity to work at BOOM! for the past seven years. “Growing up with influences such as Terri Moore, Jen Van Meter, and Rumiko Takahashi, Watters entered her adolescent stage loving both animation and comics, such as Archie and other newspaper strips. “Comics are so personal, it can just be you and your pencil telling a story”(Watters). Watters studied cartooning in college as a creative writing emphasis, learning to tell story through comics. In terms of editing a comic book, Watters explained the most prominent for good storytelling and character portrayal. “You write a lot of bad ideas down, and then you pick out the ones that are less bad” Says Watters, also elaborating on engaging works, explaining that a lot of comic storytelling is centered on character interactions, dynamics, and storylines developed from other …show more content…
Watters applies her own personal aspects and obstacles that she has overcome to her work, specifically incorporating LGBTQ+ themes as a form of safe space for youth everywhere. “I’m working at a publisher that lets me do the kind of comics that I love to do. Which is comics with marginalized creators and marginalized characters telling queer stories” (Watters). Comics with this theme would be ones such as Steven Universe (both the comic and the show), Adventure Time, Teen Dog, and Lumberjanes. By showcasing LGBTQ+ minorities, Watters deliberately uses her work to address principles that she wishes she had seen growing up. She says “I have a very successful comic book series that I co-own and am co-creator and co-writer of. It’s exactly the kind of badass thing that I wanted to be reading when I was a kid” (Watters). Watters explained that she was not out of the closet in high school (and neither were the other people she wrote Lumberjanes with), saying that “Actually most of the Lumberjanes books were the same because none of us were out in high school, so we were like ‘we’re doing it! We’re having the queer teen life we always wanted’ ” (Watters). The stories she writes and edits are all based upon something that is meant for a specific audience. Watters can use her personal experience to reach out to that audience through her
“I was the editor of Red Rock yearbook, I was the editor of the West Sedona Middle School yearbook, and I was the editor of my college yearbook so I knew that I was an editor and a writer, and I knew that I loved comics and animation. So it was like ‘well how do I get in there with these skills’ ” (Watters). This launched her career into play and gave her an opportunity to work at BOOM! for the past seven years. “Growing up with influences such as Terri Moore, Jen Van Meter, and Rumiko Takahashi, Watters entered her adolescent stage loving both animation and comics, such as Archie and other newspaper strips. “Comics are so personal, it can just be you and your pencil telling a story”(Watters). Watters studied cartooning in college as a creative writing emphasis, learning to tell story through comics. In terms of editing a comic book, Watters explained the most prominent for good storytelling and character portrayal. “You write a lot of bad ideas down, and then you pick out the ones that are less bad” Says Watters, also elaborating on engaging works, explaining that a lot of comic storytelling is centered on character interactions, dynamics, and storylines developed from other …show more content…
Watters applies her own personal aspects and obstacles that she has overcome to her work, specifically incorporating LGBTQ+ themes as a form of safe space for youth everywhere. “I’m working at a publisher that lets me do the kind of comics that I love to do. Which is comics with marginalized creators and marginalized characters telling queer stories” (Watters). Comics with this theme would be ones such as Steven Universe (both the comic and the show), Adventure Time, Teen Dog, and Lumberjanes. By showcasing LGBTQ+ minorities, Watters deliberately uses her work to address principles that she wishes she had seen growing up. She says “I have a very successful comic book series that I co-own and am co-creator and co-writer of. It’s exactly the kind of badass thing that I wanted to be reading when I was a kid” (Watters). Watters explained that she was not out of the closet in high school (and neither were the other people she wrote Lumberjanes with), saying that “Actually most of the Lumberjanes books were the same because none of us were out in high school, so we were like ‘we’re doing it! We’re having the queer teen life we always wanted’ ” (Watters). The stories she writes and edits are all based upon something that is meant for a specific audience. Watters can use her personal experience to reach out to that audience through her