Lauren Davis Makes Comics & Stuff

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Triple Dream Comics (the comics studio made up of me, Mel Hilario, and Katie Longua) has a story in the new Iron Circus Comics anthology FAILURE TO LAUNCH! The whole book is about unrealized futures, and our story is about the 1910 plan to import hippos and ranch them in Louisiana. It features invasive plants, an infamous drug lord, a Nazi spy ring, and, of course, lots of hippos! You can back the book here: https://www.backerkit.com/c/iron-circus-comics/failure-to-launch?ref=triple-dream

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I actually love a good Flair pen, but I was hoping she might fall for something new.

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Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work (or some interesting ways to get some variety into those boring panels where some dumb writer has a bunch of lame characters sitting around and talking for page after page) is a really useful tool, but a bunch of us were recently lamenting that it’s not exactly kid-friendly. To introduce younguns to the wonders of quick and easy panels, I redrew Wood’s panels with my dog characters. Feel free to use and share, just keep the credits in!

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And for my eighth Supreme Court Justice comic, Justice Stephen Breyer quietly tends the ever-evolving garden of Constitutional law.

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Justice Samuel Alito stars in today’s Supreme Court Justice comic! Eye rolling doesn’t go on the official Supreme Court record, but court-watchers certainly notice it.

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Today’s Supreme Court Justice comic features Spider-Kagan--er, I mean Justice Elena Kagan. I totally don’t call her Spider-Kagan in my head. If you’re curious, you can read Kagan’s Spider-Man opinion online.

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Today’s Supreme Court Justice comic features Anthony Kennedy! This obviously doesn’t get to the full range of Kennedy’s beliefs (like his desire for prison reform), but in terms of big, recent cases, these are places where Kennedy sits most prominently in the public consciousness. Of course, now folks are speculating where Kennedy might swing on things like the travel ban -- and whether he’ll retire in the wake of Gorsuch’s confirmation.

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Today’s Supreme Court Justice comic highlights Justice Sonia Sotomayor. After this week, I could use a bit more Sotomayor in my life.

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While Thomas doesn’t engage in oral arguments, we do know that he reads the written briefs that the Supreme Court, because language from those briefs tends to end up in his opinions. I just remember my Constitutional Law professor would sigh whenever we would reach a Thomas concurrence or dissent, lamenting how predictable they were. By contrast, he’d get very excited whenever analyzing an Antonin Scalia opinion, even though he tended to disagree with Scalia’s interpretation.

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Today’s Supreme Court Justice comic features the Notorious RBG! You can actually try Ginsburg’s workout for yourself, if you dare! Incidentally, the same fellow who trains Ginsburg also trains fellow Justice Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer. Got to keep those justices healthy.

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The first SCOTUS Justice on the list is the Chief, Justice John Roberts. I particularly enjoyed Jeffrey Toobin’s profile of Roberts in the New Yorker. It was written before blockbuster decisions on Citizens United, same-sex marriage, and the ACA, but it offers great insight into Roberts view of the Court as an institution.

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I’ve been working on this piece for my Comics MFA program at CCA, but it occurs to me that it might be slightly outdated in the coming weeks. So I’m going to be releasing a page of this comic each day for the next ten days, introducing each of the Supreme Court Justices. Stay tuned!

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In 2013, while I was working as the weekend editor at io9, I made a series of comics I called “The Webcomic Guide to the Apocalypse,” looking at the history of early apocalyptic fiction. This is the first comic, “Plague,” which first appeared in January 2013.

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“Skoda’s Day In,” a monologue comic I made for Nicole Georges’ CCA workshop, Fall 2015.

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An ink wash illustration of Lucca the Vizsla and Tilly the Yorkshire Terrier. Lucca doesn’t quite trust Tilly. She has good instincts.

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Things the Dogs Have Told Me

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Things the Dogs Have Told Me