Made for Each Other

The poetry comic “Made for Each Other” was originally published on Split Lip in August 2019. I created the eight images, Lesley Wheeler wrote eight stanzas in response, and I devised a font to letter them. It’s our first poetry comic collaboration. We reversed the process for “Rhapsodomantic“: Lesley wrote the poem “Rhapsodomancy” (which appears in her new book Mycocosmic), and I illustrated twenty-two tarot cards in response. Our styles have evolved in the six years between, but I still recognize every Wheeler-esque turn-of-phrase, and I’m still inexplicably infatuated with the limitations of Word Paint. I look forward to our future collaborations, but those will have to wait until after her Mycocosmic book tour (which begins next week with a March 4th book launch party at Lexington’s Downtown Books).

Meanwhile, please enjoy “Made for Each Other”:

For Lesley’s latest, check out Mycocosmic: