Lisa’s illustrations have appeared in McSweeney’s, The Believer, and LA Weekly. Her first comic book, I Want You, is super-good and was published by Buenaventura Press last year. Her parents are both biologists, and last Christmas they sent a copy of said comic book—which includes instructions on how to pretend to masturbate—to all of Lisa’s relatives. Also, Lisa has a dog named Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade (Indy for short). The dog is “made out of rubber bands and dreams of chasing pigeons with hot dogs in their beaks.” Lisa said that last part there herself. We don’t really know what it means. But here are some of the artists Lisa is inspired by right now: Shary Boyle, Will Sweeney, Aiyana Udesen, Jordan Crane, Laura Park, Hellen Jo, Matt Furie, and a dash of ol’ Geof Darrow. See LIGHT POLLUTION
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Taji Ameen and Michael “Boots” de Leon are our crack photo-intern team and the costars of a buddy-cop movie we’ve been writing in our heads for the past two weeks. Taji is the wisecracking New York kid who grew up skateboarding with the likes of Harold Hunter, could be anywhere from 14 to 25 years old, and plays by his own rules, while Boots is the tight-lipped pussy hound from Washington State, is exactly 24 years old, and plays by his own rules. When they work together they’re a formidable picture-taking-and-giving-to-us unit whose loose-cannon style and can-do attitude complement one another like sides of a penny, but when they butt heads, you better believe sparks are going to fly! Oh, and in case you’re wondering, the reason we call Boots “Boots” is because the first day he came in he was wearing boots. Nickname explained! See THE DESK BY THE BACK DOOR WITH THE MILLION-YEAR-OLD “GRAPHICS COMPUTER” TAKING UP HALF OF IT, Wed., Thu., and Fri.