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Just finished tabling at Fanime’s inaugural doujinshi event called Manga Ichiba and the turnout was impressive! I came in from the lens of indie comics, having recently printed and kickstarted a graphic novel memoir, and tabled at this event with my older manga series, White Angel, as my main offering (I’m in the process of relaunching this as…

Do you need an audience before you launch a crowdfunding campaign? The answer is a little more complicated than a yes or no. Here I share how I successfully crowdfunded my first graphic novel without a large social media following… and share the data behind it. First, who am I? I’m Theresa Chen Arzola. I am the creator of…

Everyone who has ever made a comic can tell you the process is never consistent or the same between creators. So I thought I’d take some time to give a better picture of how I completed my recent graphic novel in 1 year. I actually talked about my comic making process in an earlier Newsletter (Letters from Theresa - Sept 2025…

It’s been awhile since my last real blog post and it's primarily been due to me being heads down in Beyond the Road work! But we did it! The book has been finished, the Kickstarter was launched, successfully funded, and now… I have books!  Now at the tail end of this long project, I wanted to share a sort of "post-mortem", a structured reflection of the past months in order to inform next steps and share the lessons learned.

A true story, 110-page full-color comic about rediscovering adventure with chronic illness through a 4-day campervan trip.