My comics have appeared in several publications—most recently in MOTIF magazine of Rhode Island (2019-2025)—but always under the name FEST. That was the name of my comic strip in my high school’s student newspaper, and later in The Heights, the student newspaper of my undergraduate college.

I always wanted to have a comic strip with a small repertory of characters but no fixed subject or storyline, so I thought FEST was a suitable name, since you can make that word a suffix to just about anything: filmfest, Octoberfest, songfest. The word implies a party and just having a good time.