Hello, my name is Maggie. I've been publishing books and zines in the small press comics community since 2007. I co-founded 2dcloud, now I focus on my own books.
I'm excited to share my first self-published graphic novel with you! Chrysanthemum Under the Waves was 6+ years in the making and is a collection of 9 comics. It began as a single comic - a silent interpretation of the short story, The Tooth, by Shirley Jackson.
In Jackson's writing, I met James Harris. His is an ominous but nearly invisible presence in her stories, a tall man in a blue suit, a face hidden under a hat or by cigar smoke... He is a demon figure, a portent of doom. As he seeped into my comics, my marriage, my career and my health failed. At first, I thought that James Harris came to destroy me. Over time, I recognized he was there to help me say goodbye to all I loved most.
I was interviewed on the hu u no podcast. Click here to listen to the episode. Artist and writer Dmitry Samarov and I talk about Chrysanthemum Under the Waves, self-publishing vs working with a publisher, my history as an cartoonist and why I left 2dcloud.
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Magical feats of comics communication within these stories, beautiful tricks of mark making expressing what cannot be said.
I really love this book, very much.
— Lale Westvind, author of Grip published by Perfectly Acceptable Press
Upcoming Events
2025: Millions of Minis Zine Tour
- ☞ 1/24 SAW Friday Night Workshop, sequentialartistsworkshop
- ☞ 5/15-18 Indiana Dunes Birding Festival, Migration Marketplace, Porter, IN
2024: The Less is More Zine Tour
- ✔ 4/27 Madison Print & Resist Zine Fest, Madison, WI
- ✔ 6/14-7/7 Drawing Worlds: The art of comics and beyond, A2AC (The Ann Arbor Art Center), Ann Arbor, MI
- ✔ 6/15 ZND Fest (Zine Not Dead Fest: A Comics and Small Press Fair), Chicago, IL
- ✔ 6/30 oddball market, the Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
- ✔ 8/17 Autoptic Festival, Minneapolis, MN
- ✔ 8/18 INZF (Insert Name Zine Fest), Minneapolis, MN
- ✔ 8/24-25 CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo), Chicago, IL
- ✔ 9/8 ZINEmercado Zine Fest, Chicago, IL
- ✔ 9/14-15 The Urban Birding Festival, Chicago, IL
- ✔ 9/26-29 CXC (Cartoon Crossroads Columbus), Columbus, OH
- ✔ 10/5 A2CAF: SIP (Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival: Small + Indie Press), Ann Arbor, MI
- ✔ 10/6 MILK Fest (Milwaukee Independent Local Comics Fest), WI
- ✔ 10/12 Chicago Printers Guild Publishers Fair, Chicago, IL
- ✔ 10/25 Chrysanthemum Under the Waves Book Release Party, Tangible Books, Chicago, IL
- ✔ 10/26 SLICE (St. Louis Independent Comics Expo), St. Louis, MO
- ✔ 11/1 Marathon Art Show, Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, Seattle, WA
- ✔ 11/2 Short Run Comix Festival, Seattle, WA
- ✔ 11/15-17 Staple + Stitch Art Book and Print Fair, Chicago, IL
2023: My Mostly Midwest Zine Tour
- ✔ 4/8 ICE CREAM (Iowa City Expo for Comics and Real Eclectic Alternative Media), Iowa City, IA
- ✔ 4/22 Madison Print & Resist Zine Fest, Madison, WI
- ✔ 5/20 CZF (Chicago Zine Fest), Chicago, IL
- ✔ 6/3-6/4 CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo), Chicago, IL
- ✔ 6/23-6/26 The Zine Pavilion at ALA (American Library Association), Chicago, IL
- ✔ 8/12 INZF (Insert Name Zine Fest), Minneapolis, MN
- ✔ 8/27 ZINEmercado, Chicago, IL
- ✔ 9/9 Zinecinnati, Cincinnati, OH
- ✔ 9/10 MILK Comic Fest (Milwaukee Indie Local Comic Fest), Milwaukee, WI
- ✔ 9/16-9/17 CABF (Cincinnati Art Book Fair), Covington, KY
- ✔ 10/6 ZINE NOT DEAD #21 hosted by Chicago Printers Guild, Co-prosperity, Chicago, IL
- ✔ 10/7 Chicago Printer Guild PAPER JAM, screening The Schizophrenic Dialogues Short Film with Corrupted Frames: A Digital Gallery, Co-prosperity, Chicago, IL
- ✔ 10/7 Lafayette Comic-Con, Lafayette, IN
- ✔ 10/14 Rain Taxi's Twin Cities Book Festival, St. Paul, MN
- ✔ 10/21 Chicago Printer Guilds PAPER JAM Publishers Fair, Co-prosperity, Chicago, IL