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A panel from Rachel Ang’s A Stone in the River. The narrator stares nervously, pen in hand, at the daunting task of drawing a map of the comics community, represented by a swirling pixelated cloud of red and blues.

A Stone in the River

Rachel Ang, Folio, December 2021

I was going to draw a map of the comics community – all its enclaves, contested territories, peripatetic travellers & so on – but I’m resisting the urge, it’s been done before & will be done again. It’s important & commendable to recount history & record the contemporary moment – but it also makes me nervous. What is this fear? Of leaving someone out? Of stopping the flow of this stream we all contribute to just so I can count each drop of water?Of centring myself in a community which is so unusual, rich & diverse (but could be moreso!)?

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