6B — Thursday, January 18, 2018
b-side
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.

By C.C. Burnikel
©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
01/18/18

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

