Page Notes

Originally published as "We Could Be Heroes 04" on 7/27/2012

I write out sequences often years in advance of when I draw them, but, oddly, when I draw them there often seems to be parallels to whatever is happening in them to aspects of my life, or the lives of friends (often ones on whom characters are based). My father often said, “Life imitates Art”, and for whatever reason, it has been so in my life (for which I am usually grateful, or at least amused). This instance was a bummer, though. I was drawing this during a period of time when the Republicans were trying to pass terrible, totally (in my opinion) un-American laws against womens’ health and rights. I WAS SO ANGRY. I was glad when this sequence was done, I’ll admit.

Molly Demeter Sokolow Hayden (or Modemeter, for obvious reasons of length) grew up surrounded by her father’s comic book collection, sometimes literally. She fell in love with Will Eisner’s Spirit at an inappropriately young age and wishes she could draw like Jaime Hernandez. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, her daughter, and her cat, and sneaks down to her drawing table whenever she can.