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Haiku comics artist David Lasky on the textures of Seattle

artist David Lasky
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Amy L. Pinon

Each day during the month of April, KUOW is highlighting the work of Seattle-based poets for National Poetry Month. In this series curated by Seattle Civic Poet and Ten Thousand Things host Shin Yu Pai, you'll find a selection of poems for the mind, heart, senses, and soul.

David Lasky combines poetry and comics in his creative practice, to craft 3-panel narrative sequential art that explores his everyday observations of living here. A practitioner and teacher of haiku comics, Lasky brings together language with simple drawings and patterns that startle the imagination.

Seattle writer-artist David Lasky co-authored the graphic novel "Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song", which won comics’ Eisner Award in 2013. His goal as a graphic novelist has been to push the boundaries of the medium. He regularly explores new possibilities in informational comics, abstract comics, and poetry comics. David has been a graphic novel instructor for over 15 years, and has focused primarily on teaching haiku comics for the past two years.


David Lasky Haiku
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