Comic books: 'I was the only girl in the comic book store'

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Comic books: 'I was the only girl in the comic book store'
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Northern Ireland comic artists tell their stories and how stereotypes are changing in a new anthology.

Marianna said she liked to convey difficult emotions through her workComic books have been a huge part of Marianna Mooney's life growing up and in recent years she believes stereotypes have changed.

Marianna said her work often deals with “tricky emotions, or life experiences, and why we think the way that we do”.Low Intensity's founder, Andrew Pope, said the publication's aim is to showcase comics and sequential art from this part of the world. Low Intensity is being published by Local Colour Comics, which also runs the Belfast Comic Jam, a collaborative comic making event, where many of the artists became involved in the project.Kathryn said Northern Ireland artists had many stories to tell

“You think of Marvel, you think of DC; Superman or Batman, very masculine figures. But actually, any kind of art movement is women at the grassroots,” she said.a lot of the artists are women."Her entry features a little monster getting Covid-19, “but he kind of makes it humorous, as opposed to this terrible illness”.Titch Dixon has also been working on Low Intensity, and said her biggest source of inspiration is her father."We have a matching tattoo that he designed.

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