Many years ago, when I was in high school, I asked a computer skills teacher for advice on learning how to build websites. He made the mistake of telling me that “coding wasn’t for girls”, so I decided to show him he was wrong and I spent the school year teaching myself how to build websites.

This is a story from my life that I had been telling people for years, it is part of what motivated me to become a designer. I had always known I wanted to tell the story in a visual way, but struggled to figure out how to do that.

In August 2023, I made a four panel comic that was the simplified version of what had happened and people on social media really responded to it, in a way that surprised me. I had made the comic on a whim, but something about the style worked for me and I was able to quickly put together this 28 page comic. It is the first longer sequential comic I have done, which made it such a surprise and a real honor when the comic was the recipient of a Mini-Grant from the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE) in 2023.