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                    <p>I'm a cartoonist, professor, and zinester! I like watermelon, glitter, kpop group SHINee, and my cat Henry.</p>
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<center><p>Last updated 10/24/2025</p></center>

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<p>I'm Kori Michele! (they/them/their)</p>

<p>I'm an artist!  I care about art and artmaking as an essential part and maintaining humanity.  I practice painting, zinemaking, cartooning, writing, and teaching.  </p>

<p>I got a BFA in Painting from the Maine College of Art in 2008 and a MFA in Cartooning from the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2019.  In between I was a dishwasher, financial aid counselor, anime nerd, health food store clerk, illustrator, and web cartoonist.</p>

<p>I've published hundreds of pages of comics and over a hundred zines!  I've contributed to a dozen comic anthologies and co-published one of my own.  From 2020-2025 I taught Publication Arts and Professional Practices in the MFA program at CCS.  I've done a number of lectures and workshops on color in comics, zines and self-publishing, adult comics and queer comics. I sell my zines through my web store and at comic festivals, and freelance as a comics flatter and colorist.</p>

<p>In 2024 I self-published a zine making workbook called <A HREF=https://studiokori.neocities.org/zines>Tiny Book Science</a>.  It's the culmination of everything I've learned about making zines and teaching others how to make zines.  I'm very proud of it, and it was a huge undertaking.</p>

<p>Currently, I'm taking a break from teaching to focus on my own work, which includes writing essays, drawing journal comics, developing a long-form comic about revolution, and painting a lot of pictures, often of a K-pop idol I'm a little musically and aesthetically obsessed with.  I think you should follow your heart wherever it goes. Recently I contributed annotations and comics to Gender Queer: the Annotated Edition by Maia Kobabe (Spring 2026.)</p>

<p>I'm a proud little freak, and I believe in love.  You should tell someone you love them right now!</p>

<p>Friendship is the currency of anarchism!  Free Palestine! I love you!</p>


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<p>You can email me at korimichele@gmail.com</p>

<p>I don't really like social media but you can find me at these locations:</p>
<p><IMG SRC=https://studiokori.neocities.org/graphics/decorations/frogicons/cat84.gif><A HREF=https://bsky.app/profile/korimichele.bsky.social> korimichele on bluesky</A></p>
<p><IMG SRC=https://studiokori.neocities.org/graphics/decorations/frogicons/frog11.gif><A HREF=https://www.instagram.com/korimicheleok/> korimicheleok on instagram</A></p>

<p>CV/Resume provided on request!  I'm usually open to flatting jobs, zine workshops, and teaching and writing about comics!</p>


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