An Action Card Collaboration! Your Action Card Collaboration Summary With this Action Card Collaboration, we are asking you to submit places from your neighborhood that we may include as part of our fictional Back of the Yards comic neighborhood. It can be any type of place. A park, a restaurant, a general store you often […]
Comic Updates
A Studio Card Production: Neighborhoods & Their Residents
A Studio Card Production Studio Card Production Summary This Studio Card production will cover neighborhoods and their residents within our urban centers. We wanted to have a devoted Studio Card production series for this topic because, after all, it is those neighborhoods and their residents that makes any city special and unique. That melange of […]
A Studio Card Production: Carl Jung & The Character Archetypes of the Unconscious Mind
A Studio Card Production The Studio Card Production Summary This Studio Card production features Carl Jung’s Archetypes of the Unconscious Mind. We will be using this Studio Card for many of our ongoing collaborations as it sets forth the 12 primary character archetypes that we will be utilizing for ongoing Action Card collaborations as part […]
Comic Update: Introducing Back of the Yards! Our Inaugural Comic Series
Written by Len Kody Introducing Back of the Yards! Our Inaugural Comic Series What if your dreams became real? It doesn’t get more real than Back of the Yards, on the South Side of Chicago, when you’re growing up as a teen. It’s where fantasy and the power of story can build resilience, foster healing […]
Comic Update: Introducing Andre Davis – Superhero from the South Side of Chicago?
Written by Len Kody Background – A Boy With Big Ideas All of our initial stories and characters in Back of the Yards aren’t really entirely ours. We are but humble stewards to the exciting new narrative avenues Jimmy Briseno discovered while facilitating the Made Collaborative After School Arts Program with real urban youth in […]
Comic Update: Tamia Parker – “Back of the Yards” Character (Our Heroine)
Character Background Tamia Parker was a character inspired from the first round of youth collaborations in the West Side of Chicago. During those initial collaborations, Jimmy Briseno met with a number of youth who shared initial ideas for comic characters and story lines. One of those youth was a young African American girl from that […]
Comic Update: Introducing The Elders – “Back of the Yards” Characters (The Wise Men)
Written by Len Kody and Jimmy Briseno The Elders: Three Wise Guys The Funky Finger of Fate Three wise-cracking wise guys man a permanent post around a pickle barrel in front of Kozlow’s General Store. They are Peaches, Dex and Big Earl. Although these distinguished gentlemen of the neighborhood are officially retired from whatever eclectic […]
Comic Update: Introducing Mr. Castañeda – Mentor and Mystery Man
Written by Len Kody The Summary Intel Card … Who is Mr. Castañeda? An urban public high school is like a village unto itself. It has all the size and social intricacies of a small town. New City High is attended by some 1,800 students and faculty each day; every year that population changes as […]