Katie Reigner is an artist and graffiti art instructor living in Westchester, NY. She has worked with companies like Peter Alexander of Australia to create a pajama line and Pepsi. She is the creator and instructor for a class called “Urban Illustration” that has hosted over 700 students. You can find her on instagram @Rarigrafix.
This series of hybrid gag panels and short prose is modeled after mid-century children’s comics like Casper, Little Dot, Little Eva, and Little Lulu, but stars “Kayla,” a self-portrait character whose blank eyes and somewhat sad, harried expression never changes.
“Organizers should be writing poetry. It’s such an emotional guidance for action. It’s grounding, it’s clarifying, it’s centering. And it gives us so much life when a lot of organizing itself is so exhausting.”