TRUE BELIEVERS: Chapter 30 — How To Draw Comics The Calvin Way

True Believers is a full-length novel by Thom Dunn, based on his play of the same name. It’s a satirical tale of star-crossed lovers, aspiring comic book creators, crazed fanboys, cybernetically enhanced humans, women in refrigerators, real-life superheroes, and girls who dress like Slave Leia as their lives intertwine over a whirlwind weekend at a comic book convention in the early 2010s.

The book will be serialized on Medium throughout the month of April 2020. Here is the first chapter. Check back every day for more chapters!

Ted drifts mindlessly through the morning’s portfolio reviews. He sits back in his padded chair behind the branded DC Comics foldout table that serves as the gateway between him and the eager line of aspiring artists hoping to show their wares, laptop open on the table beside him with the game running in the background. The game still buffers on the convention center’s WiFi network, even though he’s turned down the graphics detail. There’s a part of him that feels bad for eating up the already-limited bandwidth at the Javits — but if that’s the only way that he can (maybe, possibly, hopefully) keep in touch with Chloe, then it’s what he has to do.

Ted knows he should be engaged with the work, offering active and open feedback to everyone who stops by — it’s good…