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About a year ago, a new digital platform called The Nib on Medium.com opened up its binary doors online. This publication, led by Matt Bors and Eleri Harris, seeks to promote the best in comics journalism, political cartoons, humor, and non-fiction that is being produced by some of the most talented author/artists today. Words with pictures, kicking butt. And recently, I was contacted by one of their editors to see if I'd be interested in collaborating with them on stories about current events and social issues. My first story up takes us to the Gulf nation of Qatar, in which migrant workers from all over South Asia flock to in order to mak

 Last year, American student loan debt for the first time in history exceeded $1 trillion dollars, becoming the number one form of financial liability in the USA. Young people who were promised the same standard of living as their parents now find themselves jobless in an economy that doesn’t want to pay a living wage. Many are choosing to move back with parents and are delaying marriage and owning property. Others are abandoning their country altogether. The American Immigrant: Philippines is part one of a graphic memoir trilogy that follows myself, Erik Thurman, as I work as a young migrant teacher traveling the world in search for so

Read the article on my website! When I was in high school, I worked on a comic series of mine called “Zack the Pyromaniac,” a story about a 20-something-year-old who suffered from mental issues and was recently framed for the murder of his roommates by his former best friend. His journey takes him from the deserts of Arizona to the streets of New York, where he befriends a homeless ex-Senator and the rich daughter of a banker, in order to uncover government conspiracies. He also wielded two knives and had the power of pyrokinesis because… it was supposed to be edgy and cool. The plan was to map out the first season of th