Last year, I decided to lean into my old passion of writing and try my hand at comic scripts thanks to Gail Simone's #comicsschool. I joined the community and got to work refining my skills in time for talk of anthologies collecting some of our work.
Although I ended up missing the chance to be in the most official one, a couple of people started pitching their own anthologies to the hivemind, usually with a clear theme and purpose. For whatever reason, Zev Hatfield's call for talent for a 60s-inspired comic to raise money to help with the plague struck a chord with me.
Skip ahead a good few months of talent scouting, social media promotion and rewrites later, and the anthology finally came out with art by Michael Scully.
As part of my preparation, I researched a lot of tropes at the time and saw that casual racism against Asia was popular during the Vietnam war period, so I thought I'd shape my piece to sub-textually comment on that.I won't pretend it's handled as well as it could be, but I'm happy with the comic for its good intentions and snapshot of my writing at the time.
If you're interested, check out the PDF here : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fvVHcxBNR6IpodaYR44Acne-TpHly1e6/view. I spent a lot of time with all of those stories, cutting them up to preview bits and seeing the artists share their work from pencil sketches to fully-coloured pages, so believe me when I (very biasedly) say that my story is not the only one to thumb through here. But if you are so inclined, mine starts on page 28.
