Author: Jack Wallace

Jack Wallace is a writer from Columbus who’s happily married and finds himself inexplicably working in finance. Disposable Fiction Comics started as a group of short stories and metamorphosed, into a book, a webcomic, and, finally, a company creating fiction spanning a variety of genres.
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Major Change at CCAD

Comics as a medium have grown in popularity over the last few decades. That growth has spawned an increase in the demand for comics education. Some universities and colleges nationwide have started to offer “Comics” as a major, including Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD). CCAD separated the Comics and Narrative Practice from the Illustration major in 2022. I took a brief tour of CCAD’s campus to learn more about the teachers and students of the program.

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10 Questions with Victoria Douglas

UGLAS The 2022 winner of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus’ Emerging Talent Prize, Victoria Douglas is a rising cartoonist and illustrator in the area. They are a graduate of Columbus College of Art and Design and have been making comics since 2019. Victoria is probably best known for their ongoing comic CINNAMON. Published by Behemoth Comics, CINNAMON is an ordinary housecat who turns everything into an adventure. We get to see things through her eyes as she does battle with the antagonistic Henchrats, defends her domain from a laser pointer, and sometimes even comes to blows with her owner. Besides CINNAMON, Victoria has self-published Templar Vitae, a 24-hour comic, and Biblioware, a collection of short semiautobiographical comics.

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Octopus Pie Vol. 1

Comprised of Meredith Gran’s popular webcomic’s first two years of strips, Octopus Pie Vol. 1 tells the story of two twenty-somethings living together in New York. Ning is the uptight one who works at Ollie’s Organix, and Hannah is her friend from kindergarten turned stoner and pastry baker.

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Hark A Vagrant

As she mentions in her introduction, Kate Beaton would often put off writing essays to do comics for the student paper. She would eventually start putting them online as she continued working on her degree in history. It would turn out that she was able to meld both of these worlds into something truly fantastic.

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10 Questions with Steve Hamaker

Steve Hamaker is a local comic creator that has been in the business for over 20 years. Ever since he graduated from Columbus College of Art and Design in 1997, he has collaborated with some of the most notable cartoonists in the business. Steve is best known for his award-winning coloring work. His credits include the graphic novel series Bone and RASL by Jeff Smith, Table Titans by Scott Kurtz & Brian Hurtt, Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore, and Hilo by Judd Winick to name a few. He has even worked on Mylo Xyloto, a six-part comic by Mark Osborne based on the fifth studio album by the band Coldplay. Besides coloring, Steve is a successful cartoonist in his own right. His first graphic novel Fish N Chips was published in 2010 and followed up by his webcomic PLOX in 2013. PLOX, which is set in Columbus, follows the arcs of Kim, Chad, and Roy, three gamers struggling to navigate their offline lives. You can read it online at plox-comic.com. Currently, Steve is providing art for The Pathfinders Society. To date, two books in the young adult graphic novel series have been published, The Mystery of the Moon Tower (2020) and The Curse of the Crystal Cavern (2021). Steve lives here in Columbus with his wife and son.

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