by Tom Batiuk | May 23, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
For some time now, editor in chief Jay Kennedy was the individual who had my back at King Features. He had been instrumental in helping me usher difficult work to the comics page. I took Lisa’s story in to King, and the same measures that we had used to support my...
by Tom Batiuk | May 18, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
Yet another trick involved creating fantasy sequences depicting Lisa as a superheroine battling her cancer. It allowed me to touch on things like the rigors of chemotherapy from a removed perspective, which made it more palatable to readers. Once again, comic book...
by Tom Batiuk | May 9, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
In my work, I’ve found that it helps to have stages for my characters that are actual settings with which I’m familiar to ground the work for me. For the longest time, a pastiche of my old high school and the school where I taught stood in for the Westview High School...
by Tom Batiuk | Apr 25, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
So, in order to bring some relief into the work I employed a few tricks. First, I began a parallel story arc where Darin Fairgood, the son that Lisa gave up for adoption, begins a search for his birth mother, and Lisa, in an effort to pass on her medical history,...
by Tom Batiuk | Apr 18, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
When the first part of Lisa’s Story ran in the paper, I talked in interviews about how I had taken the experiences of others and used them to create an internal landscape that I would draw upon as I did the writing. But, having since experienced cancer firsthand with...
