KS: What’s it like getting ready for Interim to debut with Shortbox? Is there anything you’re especially looking forward to?ĪC: Honestly, I have no idea what I’m feeling about this! I’m hugely grateful for the opportunity and I know I’ve got a lot to learn! It’s the first longer-form project that I’ve finished so I’m at least cautiously proud of that part. I do know that going forward I’d rather move away from that and work on more experimental or fantastic narratives. A lot of what I’ve done so far has been more or less drawing from my own life, but that’s more because I had that material to pull from already while I was trying to figure out the other parts of making comics. Sometimes I’m trying to capture a specific mood, or I’m really excited by a specific concept that I want to explore. KS: What inspires you to make the stories you tell?ĪC: Mostly I’m making stories I would want to see in the world. I feel like I’m still more of a person who happens to make comics occasionally than someone who’s gotten a “start” in it, but I guess I’ve made a few by now! Kyla Smith (KS): Could you talk about how you got your start in comics?Īllissa Chan (AC): I read a lot of webcomics as a teen and that was basically it! I started playing around with simple, two to three-panel comics my second year of college, and it kind of just developed from there. I was excited to have the opportunity to talk with Allissa, and I hope you enjoy our conversation about comics, passions, and what drives us to continue creating.
I first saw Allissa’s comics on Twitter “Picture” (2019) explores language, loss, and longing in just four short, yet powerful, pages.
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