graphic novel art to their youth. Perryman’s path to graphic novels was thrust upon her when she began using Photoshop to find solace from a family loss. “Coloring on the computer forced my mind to focus solely on the art and blocked out all the other things I had on my mind. It gave me balance and it was fun.”


The distinctive quality of a graphic novel lies in its technique of using juxtaposed image panels, whether linear or more scatered . The artist becomes the director of a stop- action film, with plots and visuals all their own to control. This unique structure, perhaps an ancient storytelling form if you think back to something like heiroglyphics, combined with the new found digital tools and freedoms, is today allowing its dedicated creatives to forge an independent path, both in publishing and art, bringing an expanding richness to the storytelling format. If a picture paints a thousand words, then these are dynamos with their own “Ka-Pow”-er!


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