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\"Tara<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

The year is 2032, and much of the southeastern United States can best be described as a post-apocalyptic wilderness.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the story\u2019s overview, most of North America had been wiped away in 2029 by a gene-altering disease in the drinking water. A team of researchers working for a large global initiative called the American Research and Recovery Organization \u2013 better known as ARRO \u2013 travels across the southeastern U.S. to explore what’s left of the former world. The mission for these doctors and scientists: Work to get the power grids back on, survive the wasteland, and recolonize.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And the futuristic story got its start \u2026 when two UTC students met at a screen printing shop in Chattanooga.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The year was 2009, and a chance meeting changed the lives of Tara Hamilton and Ali Burke \u2013 a pair of graduating UTC seniors. Hamilton (before marriage, her last name was Harris) was closing in on her bachelor\u2019s degree in painting and drawing. Burke, an English major, would soon earn her degree in rhetoric and writing.<\/p>\n

Going all the way back to middle school, Hamilton had been infatuated with drawing characters \u2013 so much so that she fantasized about creating comic books. She had specific concepts and characters in mind, mostly of a zombie genre.<\/p>\n

Burke, meanwhile, was a science fiction fanatic. She had an interest in comics, but hadn\u2019t seriously thought about making them.<\/p>\n

Then, as fate would have it, Hamilton and Burke crossed paths in a local screen printing shop run by Nick DuPey \u2013 Burke\u2019s boyfriend at the time and now her husband. Hamilton purposely had come to his shop due to an \u201cart crush\u201d she had on DuPey \u2013 who had received his degree from the UTC Fine Arts department two years before and had opened the shop with support from a grant he received in 2008.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had been trying to get somebody to work with me on a comic since high school,\u201d said Hamilton, who grew up in Chattanooga and still calls the city home. \u201cI was trying really hard to find somebody to work with, and those false starts were devastating; I figured it just wasn\u2019t going to work out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had three failed attempts before I finally met this amazing person I work with now, and we met in the most off-chance way possible. I was printing T-shirts at Nick\u2019s screen printing shop. I was poor. I was like, \u2018If I do the work, can I get them cheaper?\u2019 I was an emerging artist and I was poor, and I needed shirts to sell.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis one day, Ali came over to hang out at the shop \u2013 I think she came by with some beers \u2013 and Nick was like, \u2018You\u2019re a writer. You\u2019re an artist. You guys should talk.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n

Hamilton and Burke started talking, and their mutual interest in comics emerged. They started hanging out regularly at The Yellow Deli on McCallie Avenue. They began world-building \u2013 constructing an imaginary world with storylines and fully developed characters.<\/p>\n

\u201cTara already had this rough concept and she\u2019d been drawing this one character a long time; she really wanted to do a zombie comic,\u201d Burke said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t too keen about the idea of zombies, so we developed these ideas together. We spent a lot of time before we even put pen to paper \u2013 just conceptualizing and researching.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started out just tossing things back and forth. I would write something, and she would draw a picture to go with it. Then she would draw a picture, and I would write some caption content that would fit with it. We did exercises like that, just to get warmed up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through the world-building process, they created eight central characters. They developed a disease that traveled through the water system. They established storylines. They generated a post-apocalyptic adventure story.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hung out there a lot, and she kept making the story so much better,\u201d Hamilton said. \u201cFinally, Ali said, \u2018Dude, we need to write this. We have to do it.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n

And ARRO was born.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe came up with it together,\u201d Burke said. \u201cWe really built out these characters\u2019 back stories and the overarching narrative. It was just a tennis match of idea sharing, and that\u2019s the best way to make things \u2026 to sort of volley it off someone else.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt became a really natural collaborative relationship. I think we work close together. We push each other in good ways and have a lot of it balanced in our working styles. It\u2019s really exciting to create something with a person \u2026 to write something and see it come to life visually through someone else\u2019s eyes. We have a very collaborative relationship throughout the process, but a lot of times the writer\/illustrator relationship in comics tends to be, \u2018I write \u2026 I hand it to you \u2026 you draw it \u2026 it\u2019s over.\u2019 But we have a lot of back-and-forth throughout. We\u2019re always working together on it, which is a relatively unique way of working. It\u2019s something I really appreciate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAli is amazing. Please put that in there \u2013 that I said she\u2019s amazing,\u201d Hamilton said. \u201cShe manages to write everything how it needs to be for my style. I\u2019ve never met a duo that I feel is as mentally together as we are. The only thing that stops us is ourselves as far as other stuff going on, but when it happens \u2013 it\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Tara<\/a><\/p>\n

The digital illustrations of a comic book or a graphic novel don\u2019t just happen overnight. It can be a laborious process.<\/p>\n

Hamilton, the designer\/illustrator, brings the characters of ARRO to life on her computer, utilizing a clunky stylus.<\/p>\n

She explained that comics used to be done on a non-photo blue template, so when you inked it, the initial sketch drawings didn\u2019t show up on the photocopier. There is no reason for her to use blue, but it\u2019s still comfortable for her to do it that way. She then sketches in black, making sure everything fits into panel templates. Because ARRO is dialogue heavy, she has to leave ample room for words balloons.<\/p>\n

Is it a labor of love for her? Yes. But it\u2019s laborious, just the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cI work a 9-to-5 job, so on weeknights, my goal is normally half a page,\u201d she said. \u201cOn weekends, my goal is normally one full page per day \u2013 when I\u2019m really hitting a stride, trying to get stuff done. And that\u2019s for lines only. I wait to color it until everything is done. All I want to do after Ali has edits is change the line art. If I have to keep changing it with the coloring, it hurts. I like drawing a lot and I like doing the line art a lot. Figuring out panels \u2026 I love it. But if I have to redo color, it\u2019s rough. Sitting there and figuring out where colors go the first time is great. But if I have to delete a panel, redraw it and then recolor it, I\u2019m going to hate every minute. So it\u2019s best to leave the coloring until the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the storylines, ARRO is really character driven. So it\u2019s more focused on developing those eight characters than the world around them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI world-build a lot in my head,\u201d Hamilton said. \u201cI don\u2019t draw it out as often as I probably should. But when Ali sends the chapters, I get a really clear vision of what it should look like.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe collaborate for major ideas. We talk about it and talk about it and talk about it. Then she\u2019ll send me this word document \u2026 and it\u2019s magic. She understands these characters amazingly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Readers following the ARRO researchers know they\u2019ll see 2032 Chattanooga both in the early chapters and in later volumes of the story.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of it is just practical,\u201d Burke explained. \u201cIn terms of drawing, you want to draw on things you know and places you know \u2013 and want to reference the places you visualize. You\u2019re not writing about a place you\u2019ve never been to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we wanted it be as realistic as possible, so placing it in a location we knew felt more honest,\u201d Hamilton said. \u201cI love Chattanooga, and Chattanooga will come back quite a few times in later chapters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Tara<\/a>

The eight central characters: Jonathan Lessard, Doctor Harrison Adlam, Medical Assistant Melissa Schneider, Chemist Regina Patel, Anthropologist Adelaide Meyer, Earth Scientist\/Botanist Benji Litvin, Communications Specialist Zebadiah Matthews, Engineer Samuel Mason, Assigned Officer\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

\n

A little more about the story thus far \u2013 to whet the appetite without giving away too much information:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ARRO research team spends a night at the recently established Chattanooga station, where they mingle with the crew. Three of the team members are rookies, while the others have been working together for a while, traveling across the major cities of the southeast and turning on solar power grids. They learn more about the rubrogiardia virus, which transforms the neural makeup and physical appearance of those infected.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The year is 2016, and Hamilton and Burke had often talked about publishing an anthology once the third chapter had been completed.<\/p>\n

It had taken quite some time to get to this point in the process. Life, literally, had gotten in the way.<\/p>\n

Since the collaboration process started seven years ago, Burke got married, moved to Boston, had a baby and took on a fulltime job as a copywriter. Hamilton, too, worked a fulltime job, got married, and went back to UTC to obtain a second degree \u2013 this time in graphic design.<\/p>\n

\u201cInevitably, there have been times \u2013 when she was finishing school \u2026 when I was preparing for my wedding \u2026 when I first had a child \u2013 when there were gaps and we just couldn\u2019t work on ARRO,\u201d Burke said. \u201cLike any relationship, the best ones are the ones where you don\u2019t talk to each other for a little while, then pick it right back up again where you left off. And we\u2019ve been able to do that consistently and allow each other space to do the other things we needed to do in our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Chattanooga and Boston are more than 1,000 miles apart, Burke said their conversations tend to be more ongoing these days. Despite their heavy schedules, they\u2019re in constant contact about future ARRO chapters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we started, we had a lot more time to devote to it \u2013 and a lot more face time. We were able to go sit in a coffee shop for hours and kind of play around,\u201d Burke said. \u201cThe distance thing is difficult, but we live in a time where we have a lot of Skype calls and texts going back and forth. We have a lot of shared Google docs. We still communicate a lot. And any time I\u2019m in town, we get together and have that face-to-face experience. Honestly, there\u2019s no substitute for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although they have taken breaks from time to time, \u201cI knew that I wanted to keep working on it \u2013 and I knew she did, too,\u201d Hamilton said. \u201cIt didn\u2019t seem like it was a big deal taking that break. Our hearts were still in it, for sure. Once I graduated last year, I knew this is what I wanted to do and this is what I was going to do, no matter what.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven when I was in school, even when I didn\u2019t have time to work on pages \u2026 every day, I was thinking about it and working out plot points. I was always thinking about character development. And anything I could possibly do in here\u201d \u2013 pointing to her head \u2013 \u201cwhile I was working on what I had to for class. It was never on the backburner for me. Every day, I was coming up with something to occupy my mind with the story and try to really flush it out. Once I was finished with the degree, I jumped into it as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slowly but surely, page after page of ARRO was drawn and illustrated. Chapter One of the anthology, good to go. Then Chapter Two. Then Chapter Three.<\/p>\n

The first volume \u2013 the aforementioned three chapters plus a pair of mini chapters, which are black-and-white in nature and separate from the main story \u2013 was now ready for production and distribution.<\/p>\n

\"Tara<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Burke and Hamilton started a campaign through Kickstarter \u2013 a crowdfunding site that helps creative types find the financial backing and assistance they need to turn their ideas into a reality.<\/p>\n

Hamilton and Burke\u2019s goal was to raise $2,000 in 30 days (from June 13-July 13) for ARRO Comic, Volume 1. All of the funding was to go toward pulling everything together into one perfect-bound, full-color graphic novel. And they had specifics in mind: Speckle-toned Madero Beach 140# paper for the cover, 100% post-consumer Neenah PC100 80# for issues 1-3, and a crisp accent of Starch Mint 70-lb for the minis.<\/p>\n

They reached that pledge level quickly, giving them the opportunity to create incentives for a stretch drive. In total, they raised $3,444 over the one-month period.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just so happened that it took us long enough that the technology exists for us to reach out to people,\u201d Burke said. \u201cThe cool thing about Kickstarter \u2026 I think sometimes it feels like you\u2019re begging for money, but I don\u2019t see it that way. It\u2019s an opportunity to pre-order. It\u2019s an opportunity to gauge interest on something.<\/p>\n

\u201cThink of it this way. I\u2019m asking, \u2018Hey, if I printed this many books, how many would buy it?\u2019 And these people are saying, \u2018I would buy it.\u2019 That way, you have the money to do the printing before you go to do it. And that\u2019s an amazing opportunity. They\u2019re not donating to us; they\u2019re buying what they would have bought anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Approximately one-third of those pledging were from the Chattanooga area. But they also received pledges from backers in Great Britain, Australia, Singapore, Sweden and Gibraltar.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an exciting time for the ARRO co-creators.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe plan on having 10 or 12 volumes of ARRO; this is just the first one,\u201d Hamilton said. \u201cI really believe in this story. I think if people read it, they\u2019ll see the amount of work we\u2019ve put into it and hopefully really enjoy these characters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m seriously obsessed with them. Hopefully, other people can see that and like them, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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