(Crip, short for cripple, comes from the 1960s when the disabled community aimed to take back their power and reassign meaning to an old dirty word. I gotta say, I love it! I was doing a lot of super-crip hero stuff for so long I hadn’t even realized it.
Recently, I traded in my skateboard for an electric wheelchair. Over the past few years, the arms I’ve been using as legs for my entire life have waved a white flag, resulting in a major reduction in mobility. I became a fixture in the scene and on stages all over the city. All the while I was housing traveling musicians, doing free PR, and making music videos for my friends. I eventually played venues all over town, big and small-the Tractor, the Moore, and even Sasquatch! Music Festival (RIP). Their talent kept me coming back every single week as I tried to make my songs make sense. I started writing my own songs and playing open mics at Cafe Racer back when Shana Cleveland, Corespondents, and Ben Todd had weeklies there. Music surrounded me every second of every day, and eventually it just sank in. Eventually, I showed up at enough shows that artists like Sam Doores and his band the Deslondes would crash at my house when they toured through town, staying up till 2 am and falling asleep with guitars in their hands and songs in their hearts. I started noticing buskers and listening to them play open mics at Mr. But like a lot of musicians in this city, it turned into a formative part of my time here. In this spellbinding graphic novel debut, Emma Steinkellner spins a story packed with humor and heart about the weird and wonderful adventures of a witch-in-progress.When I first moved to Seattle 20 years ago, even though I played music through much of my childhood, I didn't plan on getting involved in the local music scene. Secrets surface from generations past as Moth unravels the complicated legacy at the heart of her town, her family, and herself. She meets a talking cat, falls into an enchanted diary, and unlocks a hidden witch world. And, surprise: Moth's family is at the center of it all When Moth's new powers show up, things get totally out-of-control. It turns out that Founder's Bluff, Massachusetts, has a centuries-old history of witch drama. When some eighth-grade bullies try to ruin her Halloween, something really strange happens. But she's about to discover that witches aren't just the stuff of movies, books, and spooky stories. Thirteen-year-old Moth Hush loves all things witchy. A School Library Journal Best Graphic Novel of 2019 Sabrina the Teenage Witch meets Roller Girl in this hilarious, one-of-a-kind graphic novel about a half-witch who has just discovered the truth about herself, her family, and her town and is doing her best to survive middle school now that she knows everything Magic is harder than it looks.
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