Featured Artist Veronika Rossi + DC Creepers Show
Current Exhibition
An Exhibition + Sketch Lounge by The DC CREEPERS
April 7 - May 22nd, 2023
Opening Reception: Friday, April 7th, 7-9pm. Light refreshments & beverages ! Free.
Gallery Hours: TBA each week
Sketch Lounge Hours: Spontaneous TBA each week + April 21 & 29th, 7pm-midnight.
Delivering multiple styles in the forms of portraiture & storytelling, action sketching, gesture drawing, abstraction, creature-making, and re-purposed materials, the DC Creepers espouse the belief that anyone can draw anyone at anytime and without permission. This approach to creating results in standalone artworks that naturally read as comics.
Copies of “Comic Book Millionaires,” the hilarious retelling of a summer internship at Marvel Studios will also be available.
Registration Now Open!
Upcoming Artist Residency
DWIGHTMESS is proud to announce
The 2023 Swekt & Drang Cartooning & Comics Arts Resident, MAX HUFFMAN !
Max is a cartoonist & illustrator based in Carrboro. NC.
Join us for Community Events, including a One-Night Exhibition, and Artist Talk + Dinner. Space is limited ! Register Now»
Be sure to follow Max’s inking progress along here in 'The Graffo Broadsheet' and on our Instagram account from April 15 - April 27 !
Next Featured Artist: Veronika Rossi
DWIGHTMESS: Hi Veronica! First, congratulations of making it to your last year at George Mason University. Could you tell us a bit about what being an illustration student making comics has been like for you?
Veronika Rossi: I’ve been in college for much longer than four years so it feels so good to be almost done. When all is said and done I’ll be, from what I can tell, the only student graduating with a Printmaking concentration. When I first started college I didn’t really have any idea of what I wanted to be doing beyond just general art-making. Eventually I came to NOVA Community College and started making minicomics, but didn’t think anything would come of it long-term. They were mainly Magic book zines and short gag strips that I would make copies of and leave around campus. I had fun doing them but didn’t know my voice yet, so it sort of just felt like I was going through the motions. One day, I came across a strip by Lynda Barry on Tumblr that really stuck with me to the point that I had to learn more about her. I found out she had written a book (“Syllabus”) that was on campus at the time, so I went and read the whole thing that afternoon. My entire practice and approach to making art changed immediately.
I began to really focus on interpersonal relationships and the conflicts that come with them, which is a big theme I continue to address in my current work. For one of my finals that semester my professor allowed me to do a series of zines which turned into my first “big” story. It was titled “SUCKER” and was told in 8 parts, with each book being in a different format. I’m still really proud of that series and the story it told, and the fact that my voice was finally starting to shine. Fast forward a few years, to right after Covid lockdown, and I’m fully transferred to GMU and enrolled in their comics course. Our professor gave us a lot of freedom in the stories we could write, so I began work on a series I had been thinking of for a year or two at that point. At the same time I was learning how to use a risograph printer and pretty quickly fell in love with it. It’s still my printing format of choice and have been having so much fun experimenting with it these past few years. I’ve enjoyed it so much that my sister and I are considering buying one after graduation!
From the DWIGHTMESS studio: pilgrimage - poison = The King Lives
