WaterShed Graphic Novels
WaterShed is a love and death story about America through the lens of race: a sweeping, multi-volume account that merges nonfictional elements of history, culture, and current events with speculative fiction
You are invited along on the journey of Winnie Skye, who unwittingly finds herself directly and indirectly oscillating between three time periods: the unsettled past of this country’s original sin, present day (at the infancy of a new wave of the Black Liberation Movement), and an uncertain dystopian future consumed by a questionable oligarchy.
Vol I is available for purchase HERE.
Volume II will be released in JUNE 2021
About the Writer/Illustrator
Melanie Stevens is the co-founder and director of Miss Anthology, an organization that supports and publishes racially and economically diverse young comic artists who identify as female or LGBTQIA+. She is the co-curator of Nat Turner Project, a fugitive gallery space that grants artists of color the freedom to create or express their own language within and without the parameters of racial commodification or designation. She is also the creator of the webcomic, Black Picket Fences. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree for Political Science from Yale University and her Master’s of Fine Arts degree for Visual Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she currently teaches.
About the Editors
Samm Saxby transferred to Portland State University where she earned her BFA in Creative Writing Fiction and graduated with honors. Samm is the Events and Marketing Assistant for Catapult / Counterpoint / Soft Skull Press, Associate Editor for Forest Avenue Press, Assistant Editor for The Gravity of the Thing, and she has published work in Nailed magazine. Samm is working to dismantle racism in book publishing. She participates in local writing workshops, reading series, speaks on literary panels, volunteers for literary events, is working on her first zine with Microcosm, and writing her debut novel.
Mike Lancette is an Atlanta, Georgia native who’s been telling stories and drawing comics since his early childhood. After focusing heavily on drawing, painting and sequential art in high school, he attended Mercer University where he received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts. In an attempt to refine his skill set, he spent his early post-college years at various fine arts studios under the tutelage of renowned Atlanta artists. Since then, he has returned to his first love - comics. Mike is the writer and illustrator behind the ongoing comic book series Master of the Edge.
Other Comics & Graphic Novels
Black Picket Fences (webcomic)
The Walker (graphic novella)
Black Picket Fences Vol I