About

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

Recent Posts

Woolf

I’ve almost finished assembling the cast of characters that Tree Girl will encounter in the woods:  Woolf (seen below), King Yeti, Lumbering Jack, and a few others.  Woolf is not a big bad wolf, but, as the “wool” of his name may suggest, a sheep in wolf’s clothing (probably people think more of Virginia Woolf …).  Make no mistake; sheepish as he is on the inside, he does pose a threat.

Here he is, with TG, in process:

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Tree Girl completed (the “non” on her neck was coincidental, but perhaps is fitting): 
P1000556Body.  The grey comes from a photograph that accompanied an article about North Korea.

P1000555  Tracing paper for the arms and tail:P1000557Coming together:

P1000558And here is an exercise in the importance of eyebrows.  Without a telling eyebrow, Woolf looks like an eager puppy!P1000560With the addition of the eyebrow, he’s turned sinister.  I like how well the lowercase L worked.
P1000561  Finished piece:

P1000562And now I’m off to prepare stuff for printing.  I’ll be tabling at Stumptown at the end of the month!  Excited.

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