Self-Publisher Magazine #77 Sep. 2014 | Page 20

could at least hold serve and create something interesting. It seems like that break from comic art helped me get better at it. I had a better handle on design, narrative, and typography. All of my little graphic arts tricks served me well. I guess I’m a late bloomer. SP!: COULD YOU DESCRIBE FAITH FALLON (THE PROTAGONIST OF YOUR GRAPHIC NOVEL)? Steven: Faith Fallon was America’s Sweetheart during the fabulous fifties. Men wanted her, women wanted to be her. The story follows SP!: SO, WHEN DID YOU START DRAWING FAITH FALLON? her life, from when she was a little girl growing up in Kansas during the Great Depression, to her apparent suicide in the 1960s as her Steven: Believe it or