Hunting Dahu by Max Barnewitz

A single-page comic by Max Barnewitz consisting of 6 squares superimposed over a photo of a mountaintop. The comic uses watercolor and ink to show a person with short hair snowshoeing through the alps looking for a creature called the Dahu.

Max Barnewitz (they/them) is a comic artist and mixed-media zinester in Salt Lake City.  They earned their M.A. in Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies from the University of Utah in 2016 where they studied the ways comics portray queer identities. Max’s research interests include queer theory, hybridity, ecocriticism, and posthumanism, all topics which they explore in their collage-based comics. Max spends their spare time organizing the Queer Spectra Arts Festival and the Salt Lake City Grid Zine Fest, and drinking lots of coffee with their partner and dog.

Portrait of the artist as a polar bear - a collage portraying Max Barnewitz as a polar bear in a suit with a pink floral lapel pin.
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