Constant connectivity, an avalanche of information, global culture, the eco-apocalypse, or the second coming.

Welcome to the Modern world, strings attached, patent pending.



And what I want to know is: how should I respond to the hysterical race of the present into the future? Would it be better to raise goats and build a turf house in Canada, or should I join the Southern Baptist Church and try to evangelize the heathen masses?

Screw that. I’m jumping on the bandwagon and starting a blog.

And on this piece of intangible real-estate, wedged between pop-up ads, online shopping malls, and internet porn, I’ll write about my own adventures in comic book making as I try to produce something of real value in these perilous times. You heard me right, comic books, graphic novels, sequential art. Drawing is my great passion in life, and comic books are the way of the future.

But now, I’m going to take this opportunity to be self-indulgent and tell you a little about myself. No lies of course, but a few stretched truths and mis-remembered facts. Oh hell, what’s objective truth anyway?



My name is Laura Anne Terry: twenty-something, comic-book maker, lesbian, and curmudgeon. I was born in a small town, East Texas where the cows outnumbered the rednecks and the biggest act in town was a Dairy Queen. It’s beautiful country, quiet. The kind of place to raise kids, go jug fishing, and drink beer on the porch on Sundays.

And after a ten-year hiatus (Dallas, New York, Ireland) I moved back to deal with my own health problems, and I stayed because my father was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer. It hasn’t been easy, but I love my family.

Three years later, and my father is stable. It’s time for me to move on. Next week I’ll be moving to Portland, Oregon. I’ve wanted to move there for a while. I love almost everything about it and I think it’s the right place for me to break out onto the comic scene. I’m scared as hell, and I’m going to miss my family desperately, but I read something in a book that maybe explains it “ what you risk reveals what you value.”*

So that’s that. Introduction Over. A little self-indulgence goes a long way.

But don't change that dial!

Coming Soon: Beatrice Grayson’s House of Vengeance, selections from a work in progress by L.A. Terry. This crime/suspense graphic novel tells the twisted history of a Baltimore family as they are consumed by the untimely death and warped legacy of their matriarch Beatrice Grayson.

*quote by Jeanette Winterson