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Title: Superfight, 2005

Media: Brush and ink on paper, Photoshop

Creative Process

Since I started boxing several years ago, I’ve thought I should

make a story about it. My comics are usually pretty sugary

and nonviolent, so I thought it might be a fun change to draw

some characters punching each other. When the fight scene

was over, though, I felt a little sorry for the characters, so I fixed

everything up between them in the end. Also, I used a lot of

photo references for the boxing scene, which was fun—mostly

old action photos of Muhammad Ali from Corbis—which is

my favorite source for reference photos because you can find

photos of absolutely anything. Also, there was a silkscreened

poster that went along with the comic, “advertising” the fight

between the penguin and the monkey in the style of old boxing

posters. I used the Hatch Show Print book for reference on

that, as well as some old letterpress boxing posters that I

found online.

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s an artist, Sara Varon is interested in printmaking,

illustration, and comics/storytelling, and alternates

among the three. She also works part time at

an art school, and part time in the winter for an amateur

boxing tournament.

Varon has three books out: Sweaterweather, a book of

short comics; Chicken and Cat, a children’s picture book; and

Robot Dreams, a graphic novel about a friendship between a

dog and a robot.

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Varon has three books out: Sweaterweather, a book of

short comics; Chicken and Cat, a children’s picture book; and

Robot Dreams, a graphic novel about a friendship between a

dog and a robot.

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