How a prize-winning cartoonist brings hand-drawn comics to the web

Jailed during the 2021 coup successful Myanmar, American writer Danny Fenster spent six months arsenic a governmental prisoner. For overmuch of his incarceration helium battled boredom and fear, subsisting connected meditation and podcasts connected an SD paper smuggled successful by mail, sent by his girlfriend, Juliana.

Now, astir 5 years aft his release, helium collaborated with his relative Amy Kurzweil, a celebrated New Yorker cartoonist and graphic memoirist, connected a long-form interactive comic for The Verge astir his imprisonment. I chatted via email with Kurzweil astir her relation arsenic an illustrator and storyteller successful this ambitious long-form project, the responsibilities inherent …

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.