In 2020, during the pandemic I submitted a comic to a journal, at the urging of my late friend Jennifer Simpson.
And in 2021, I got a copy of it. I even have an academic citation. The reach of a small literary journal may be small, but as a kid whose academic achievement maxed out at an Associate of Science degree in Respiratory Therapy, it meant a lot to me. Here’s the citation!
Crawford, J. (2020). Californio. Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, 5(1), 118-119. doi:10.2979/chiricu.5.1.10
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[…] In the intervening 30-some years I developed a more proportional sense of what creative rejection means. Websites have been a creative outlet, as have drawings. I’ve contributed work that appeared in other media outlets. I’m still proud of having gotten an autobiographical comic into a literary journal. […]
[…] Originally published in Burn All Books anthology riso-printed magazine Sundays Quarterly Number 4 (December 2019). The theme of that terrific anthology was “MYTH.” I reworked it to submit it to Chiricú literary journal as Californio. […]