"The subjects are diverse, ranging from the founding of Washington’s first newspaper to the Army..."

“The subjects are diverse, ranging from the founding of Washington’s first newspaper to the Army Medical Museum to the 1860s iteration of the Washington Nationals baseball club to religious-vision janitor James Hampton, the Bad Brains and Officer Darron Jackson, the designer of the Metropolitan Police Department’s 2009 commemorative inauguration badges.”

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District Comics: An Unconventional History of Washington DC gets profiled in Roll Call! I wrote the baseball story mentioned above with artist Charles Fetherolf! And what’s that little bit at the end…

In the meantime, he’s working with Jason Rodriguez — who wrote “National Pastime” for “District Comics” — on another project for Fulcrum Publishing that follows in the District anthology’s footsteps.

“It’s early, early colonial stuff in New England,” he said. “Jason Rodriguez is heading that up. I’ll enjoy handing over the reins and being just a contributor.”

And he’ll even get to return to his roots for it. Dembicki is a longtime resident of the Washington area, but he’s originally from Connecticut, and he will be working with the state’s historian on his contribution to what is tentatively called “Colonial Comics.”

“They’re very interested in making this a historically relevant book,” he said, in a way “that you can only convey in comics form.”

After twelve years living in the DC area I get mentioned in Roll Call! I made it, ma! I. Made. It.