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Blood of My Blood, my magical realism/body horror graphic novella
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About Me
I’m a comics creator/graphic storyteller, artist, and writer. My creative arc began illustriously as a small child. Who could forget my contemporary classics like “Pirates On a Ship Shooting Cannons and Pistols” done in graphite on paper, or “Three Rocket Ships” rendered in Crayola marker? I’m passionate about exploring the unbounded expressive potential of the comics medium, to share stories and ideas that linger in the reader’s mind and follow them. In a good way. Not like a stalker.
Why is it called “Zeno’s Arrow”?
Haha, I came up with the name originally for my cartoons/comics Instagram account which I started off using to post random humorous strips, which you can see in the Cartoons section here on this website.
Zeno was an ancient Greek philosopher known for several paradoxes of motion that suggest the apparent impossibility of motion. If you take the dichotomy paradox and applied it to the arrow traveling toward a target instead of a person walking somewhere (since that’s how Zeno’s paradox was introduced to me in high school), this is basically the question:
To get from point A (where the arrow was shot) to point B (the target), the arrow must first travel half the distance between A and B. And then from the halfway point, the arrow must travel half the remaining distance first before it can get to point B. And so on ad infinitum. So if you can keep halving the distance remaining to the target, it would seem that the arrow never quite hits the mark?
And so, I self-deprecatingly named my humor cartoons Insta “Zeno’s Arrow” to say that my jokes never quite hit the mark.
