"I had sort of a grandiose idea that I was writing a big hybrid book--part oral
history illuminated by portraiture, part graphic memoir, and part history of the
peculiar role that the idea of agrarianism has played in American life. The
drawings of daily life on the farm became a small part of this rangy, years-long
interdisciplinary process. After I finished the year of drawing 'Landings,' I
kept working on the oral histories and portraits, and worked on farm-related
comics. I still had the idea that all of these things might come together in
some singular work, but I could not get my arms around it. After all that, I
suppose it's no surprise that Landings has such a simple form..."
Writer and artist Arwen Donohue shares more about her unique book, 'Landings:
A Crooked Creek Farm Year.'
