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July 17, 2025

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This single panel comic shows EMILY, a young girl with black hair, sits on a tree branch with a pad of paper, focusing on her writing. DANTE, a young boy wearing a baseball cap, lays on the ground a the base of the tree surrounded by papers as he draws, tongue out in concentration. The scene is sunny and happy. TITLE: MAKING POEM: Art is not a path to fame to riches, power, headlined names: they might result, that could be true but that truth still won’t burn anew the reason why you first began with eager, unsure, learning hands to sit quite still, alone, just you to find in art what is most true. No path prescribes thew ay to go though head and heart both claim to know and friends and peers and books of old will try to tell you what’s most bold. your art is yours to find in life alone, with joys, and not small strife: sometimes a flash, sometimes in hours sometimes in fights with unseen powers sometimes a solitary glee that none but you will ever see… and then. truths. come. And then truths come, and work begins and while the whole world outside spins your meals are skipped and limbs feel pins and you’re most you…in your art’s lens. So much of human life is TAKING, chewing up, consuming, breaking: shops on shops to fill our aching seem our grandest undertaking. But here is you, alone there, shaking, lone response to all the taking… just you. Just art. Just you there, making. Making, making, making, making. ——— Want 5,000 more comics like this? Join us at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics for the *FULL* Sheldon archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! Sheldon Comics copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller

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