6B — Thursday, January 18, 2018
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The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

ACROSS
1 It doesn’t go off
4 Dugong or
manatee
10 Friskies sister
brand
14 “Lookee here!”
15 Turkey’s second-
largest city
16 Enjoyed People
17 Singer Fogelberg
18 *Acting like the
locals
20 Toughness
22 Stage great
Hagen
23 White __
24 Site of
Napoleon’s exile
25 Accessories for
many lawn
mowers
27 Engrave with
acid
29 Dalai Lama, for
one
32 Sport with clay
pigeons
34 Canapé spread
35 Husky follower
37 Part of SASE:
Abbr.
38 Wartime prez
40 Sci-fi aviators
42 Shapiro of NPR
43 Exertion
45 Suburban trees
47 Picker-uppers?
49 Hole’s starting
point for skilled
golfers
51 Many a college
graduate’s
burden
52 Reel
54 Software glitches
... and, in a broad
sense, small
things hidden in
the answers to
starred clues
57 Trouble greatly
59 LG competitor
60 First name at
Woodstock
61 *Try not to look
bored
64 Lithium-__
battery
65 Pakistani tongue
66 Scoresheet
slashes
67 Find fault to a
fault
68 Mandarin discard
69 Siberian expanse
70 Some hot rods

DOWN
1 Sidestep
2 Penske rival
3 *Google Code of
Conduct motto
4 Succumb to
gravity
5 “Cut it out
already!”
6 Curly-tailed dog
7 Rummy game
played with two
decks
8 Suffix for NPR’s
website
9 “You sure of
that?”
10 Gallery VIPs
11 Hawaiian
wedding rings
12 Tar
13 Neruda’s “__ to
My Socks”
19 Top-ranked
21 Make full
26 Credits as a
source
28 Commuter org. in
the Loop
30 *“The Imitation
Game” subject
31 Comic-Con
attendee
32 Ready
33 Door opener

34 Pequod co-owner
36 Belittle
39 Trial run
designed to
catch 54-Across
41 “__ Walks in
Beauty”: Byron
poem
44 Satyrlike
46 “You’ve Got Mail”
co-star
48 “Fernando” pop
group

50 Letters replacing
unlisted items
51 Bureau unit
53 Internet greeting
55 Be a bad sport
56 iTunes
downloads
57 Raison d’__
58 West Wing staffer
61 “How’re things?”
62 “The Simpsons”
clerk
63 Fort Meade org.

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01/18/18

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“I have one of those classic

stories in that I was interested
in making comics at a young age.
I knew I wanted to make comics
at 11-years-old.”

The
fascination
started

early for Jerzy Drozd, now
a
cartoonist,
teacher
and

co-organizer
at
Kids
Read

Comics
and

its
Ann
Arbor

event, the Ann
Arbor
Comic

Arts
Festival.

Having grown up
in a small town
with no comic
store,
Drozd

became
hooked

on sharing his
knowledge
of

creating
comics

once he started
teaching over 10
years ago.

“Opening

up the process
of
comics

and
inviting

cartoonists
to

come out of their
studios
reveals

to the public the
narrative
and

writing
skills

needed for comic
writing,”
Drozd

said.
“Making

comics accessible to people has
been very beneficial to inviting
more people into the medium.”

Over the years that Drozd

has been teaching, he has seen
an increase in Ann Arbor’s
engagement with comics.

“When I started teaching

classes at the Ann Arbor Art
Center about eight years ago, it
was difficult to get the critical
signup numbers for a class to
run and it would be very hit or
miss,” Drozd said. “Now, I have
a waiting list for every class I
teach there and I’m teaching
more classes than ever before.”

Not only have more people

been interested in comics, but
the culture of comics itself is
shifting in Ann Arbor, becoming
more friendly and accessible.
Drozd has noticed the downfall
of the stereotype that comic
stores and the comic community
are unwelcoming to newcomers,
finding that stores like Vault
of Midnight in Ann Arbor are
encouraging and capable of
finding comics for everyone.

“They don’t give you a ‘nerd

test’ which the comic culture
is guilty of in the past,” Drozd
said.

Another huge factor in the

openness of the culture has
been the surge of comic-related
community events, as they offer
the chance to dispel people’s
misconceptions about comics.

“I think events held by places

like the Ann Arbor District
Library,
the
University
of

Michigan,
the

Ann Arbor Art
Center and 826
Michigan reveal
to
the
public

that
you
don’t

have to draw to
make
comics,”

Drozd
said.

“That’s
another

misconception
the general public
has. But if you
look at comics
like
“Sarah’s

Scribbles,”
“xkcd”
or

“The
Amazing

Cynicalman,”
you see that they
aren’t necessarily
immaculate
pieces
of

illustration that
are
beautiful,

but
they’re

narratively
beautiful,
and

that’s something

everyone benefits from when
we invite people to interact with
the medium.”

Drozd can also see how the

resurgence of superhero movies
has impacted the comic culture
in Ann Arbor.

“The movies have created a

sense that these characters are
culturally significant,” Drozd
said. “Even if they haven’t
improved comic sales, they have
improved comic reputations.”

Though Ann Arbor’s comic

culture has made great strides,
Drozd feels there is still more
space for not just inclusivity, but
explicit inclusivity, as well as the
celebration of authors of color
or authors from marginalized
communities. Drozd also finds
it difficult to get cartoonists
out of their studios to interact
with one another and the
public, making it problematic
to
organize
conventions
or

community outreach events.

Drozd made the move to step

out of his studio a long time ago,
and he hasn’t looked back since.

An inside look at
AA comic culture

Illustration by Bruce Worden

Courtesy of Kids Read Comics

ARTIST PROFILE

NITYA GUPTA
Daily Arts Writer

Though Ann
Arbor’s comic

culture has
made great

strides, Drozd

feels there
is still more
space for not
just inclusivity,

but explicit
inclusivity

Jerzy Drozd, organizer of Kids Read
Comics, talks teaching & making comics

Illustrations by Bruce Worden

Courtesy of Kids Read Comics