![]() ![]() And, it’s been cool to have a thing where art imitates life, and life imitates art, and we’re not quite sure where one began and ended. “But those two things combined, words and pictures, is our medium, is our art. I talk a lot and Dimi draws pictures,” Silver said with a laugh. “Our characters in the comic, Mister Yelly and Sasquatch E. On March 4, members came together for their first ever in-person panel to share about their creative work and the new collective.Ĭomic artists and writer share about their work and goals of the collective in their first in-person panel on March 4, 2023. The comic collective is in-residence at the Bunnell Street Arts Center in Homer for March. The team behind “Chickaloonies” is part of the Łuk’ae Tse’ Taas or Fish Head Soup collective of Alaska Native comic artists and writers, which aims to share visual stories of Alaska’s rich regional cultures. ![]() “It was one of those things where we can sit here and watch everything on Netflix or we can make a book, you know, we can do something,” Silver said. When the pandemic hit, they started the creation of the comic “Chickaloonies,” which follows two Alaska Native characters on an epic quest to become the greatest storytellers ever. He went on to launch the comic book studio, 80% Studios with creative partner Casey Silver. Later in his twenties, with the support of his mother and grandmother, he illustrated and designed tribal language education and children’s comics which were adapted into Chickaloon school curriculum. “And to be creatively free with how I chose to depict them, which is like comic books, or manga.” “Grandma shared her stories with me and collaborated with me to illustrate them and kind of gave me the permission to do that,” Macheras said. He would illustrate the Ahtna legends she told him - like mischievous Raven lazing on a couch - and she encouraged it. The creative spark for drawing came to Alaska Native comic artist Dimi Macheras as a kid, growing up in the Chickaloon Native Village, in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, and listening to his grandmother’s stories. Łuk’ae Tse’ Taas collective at the Bunnell Street Arts Center, with director Adele Person (center), on March 4, 2023.
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