The Artist_s Magazine 2016-03__

March 2016 51

it’s where we can imagine alternate versions of

ourown,puttingthebookdown,attheend,

to walk into a world made more colorful—

more graphic.■

MCKENZIE GRAHAM’s main job is fi lling her cat’s food

bowl. During the week she also works as an associate

editor of The Artist’s Magazine.

On talent:

“There’s a natural

development for

cartoonists. Will

Eisner, one of the

great cartoon-

ists in American

comics, talked

about how comics

allowed him to

cover his art

defi ciencies with

his writing and his

writing defi cien-

cies with his art. I

feel the same way.”

Gene Yang

©Gene Luen Yang