Sierra Barnes was at Arlington County Central Library today

As part of Arlington libraries maker space open house, Sierra spoke about how to create a graphic novel using Procreate. The software, which works on Apple's iPads, and not anywhere else, seems to be really strong for making comics.

The audience was the usual mix of extremely young children with parents looking to occupy them, and teens who want to make webcomics and perhaps do it for a living, and then crotchety old people like me.  I found it fascinating to watch Sierra work even with TMNT knockoff suggestions from the kids. Her graphic novel, Hans Vogel is Dead, is adapted from her ongoing webcomic and is much darker... It's about a dead WWII German flyer navigating an underworld that seems to be based on traditional Grimm fairy tales.

Sierra also has a booth at the Torpedo Factory where she is in residence from Thursday through Sunday.