Their work is rooted in Indigenous cultures and northern themes, peppered with fantastical elements.
With the Luk’ae Tse’Taas Comics collective, Alaska visual artists create on their own and build a broader universeByFrom left to right: Nathan Shafer, Dimi Macheras, Casey Silver, and David Brame, members of Luk’ae Tse’Taas Comics.
He said they wanted to create an “open universe, a shared universe, where people can kind of come together and tell stories and we can keep each other in the loop.” “Whatever these different methodologies are,” Brame said of the collaboration, “the general idea is that everything is artistic, it’s creative, it’s about Alaska and it’s generally focused either around Indigenous futurism or Indigenous identity, on being an Alaskan, on Alaskan values and identity.”Part of the installation titled"Lines of Sight: Comic Art and Storytelling in Alaska," which runs until Oct. 6.
As the idea gained momentum, he launched his own production company, Shared Universe, and published several books, including a science fiction anthology that he invited an assortment of Alaska authors to contribute to. Shafer had already been in online contact with Macheras, who at the time was working on “Chickaloonies” with Silver through their production company, 80% Studios. “And right at that exact moment was when Nathan had reached out,” he recalled. “It just seemed like it was a perfect kind of match and tone in what the vision was. The energy seemed perfectly right.”
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