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Originally published as "An Interlude in Hell 02" on 4/28/2011

Much of hell is based on the somewhat haphazard set up of the studios in my alma mater, CalArts (at least they were haphazard in 1987). I once wandered through an art school in Beijing, and immediately felt right at home. The smells, the extremely bare-bones walls and lack of real furniture reminded me strongly of the very expensive shanty-town we art students called home (not to mention the sub-level. Oh, and I actually took welding, briefly, in high school (my high school lacked any real art classes, so I took welding and drafting, and was pretty much the only girl in both classes).

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.