ABOUT EMI: Emi Gennis is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago and has a completely useless degree as a result. She is currently enrolled in a graduate program at the Savannah College of Art and Design to pursue yet another useless degree. Aside from Owlex, Emi makes comics that are occasionally collected in a minicomic series she likes to call SPAZ! You can buy these and other minicomics at her store. Emi lives with two cats and a ghost in a creepy old townhouse in downtown Savannah, GA. Please feel free to follow her on Twitter to email her regarding just about anything you like at spazcomix@gmail .com
ABOUT OWLEX: Emi lost a friend to suicide a while ago and she took the whole experience pretty poorly. Some friends and a few counselors suggested she deal with her grief through art and thus the concept for Owlex was born. The characters and settings in the comic were originally based on real people and locations, but since then the comic has taken on a life of it’s own and is almost entirely fictional. The story in Owlex is that of a twenty-something girl living in Chicago in an apartment building where some of her friends also live. Her roommate used to be this guy until he died, but his spirit sort of stuck around and now they occasionally get into shenanigans. He’s also obligated to check in with Hell occasionally where he hangs out with this hedgehog named Kevin. They also get into shenanigans. Owlex is drawn with technical pens on bristol board, which is incredibly primitive, but Emi’s computer refuses to run Photoshop so until further notice that’s what she’s working with. This comic will be updated on Tuesdays (and Thursdays when Emi’s feeling CRAZY).
P.S. It was really hard to write this in the third person and now that I’m reading it, it sounds completely asinine but fixing it would take too much effort. Sorry dudes.