So this past July I took part in the Create Comics workshop at The Center For Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, VT. During the school year The Center offers a Master of Fine Arts degree, but this particular workshop was kind of a comic book boot camp. They covered more points than you might think possible in just five days including character design, inking, composition, self publishing… You name it. It was a dizzying but inspiring experience.

Which brings us to today’s comic. White River Junction is a pretty cool little town, but when I first saw it I was struck by how urban it seemed compared to the rest of Vermont. My wife urged me to be careful if I left the school late at night, to which I responded, “It’s Vermont, are you worried I’ll be mugged by a cow?” And a comic was born. One of my reasons for taking part in the workshop was to get a better feel for working with a comic book style page as a opposed to the strips and single panel gags, so there you have it.

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