I live in rainy Seattle where I make comics about loss, cats, and aliens using primarily collage technique. I like cutting up paper and pasting the shapes together in order to build characters and setting—watching a layered story take shape in the process. In addition to making small comic books out of these stories, I am working on a longer narrative (part memoir, part fairy tale) about end-of-life care and its subsequent grief and pain. Weaving together traditional comics with collage technique and developing an assortment of characters (a girl with tree branches growing out of her chest, a sheep in wolf’s clothing, a not-so-abominable snowman who reigns over the forest, to name a few) it will explore not only loss of body, but of text, language, and of the narratives we come across or write in our own heads every day.
For more background, this first blog post explains this website, the comics I’m creating, and how I got here. Thank you for stopping in. I would love to hear from you!
Mita Mahato






