Pangaea is a comic strip I started drawing in 2006 when I was bored at my day job. Since then I’ve made two book collections, a coloring and activity book, and a variety of related artworks. In 2008 Pangaea went online through the help of my friends Ryan and Erin at egocomix.com , and I started going to conventions around the midwest to share and promote my work. During the same year, I was lucky enough to receive the ‘Best Local Comic’ award from the St. Louis Riverfront Times.
Check out the review by Paul Friswold here:
As a child I was a voracious reader of newspaper comics, my two favorites being Calvin & Hobbes and Bloom County. What made these comics so endearing was not that they made me laugh (which they often did) but that they made me upset, they made me curious, and they made me ask questions I never would have thought of on my own. I think a good comic strip is educational as well as entertaining.
Pangaea is my idea of what’s funny and what is intellectually stimulating in comic form. Using crude geometric animals, Pangaea depicts the day to day silliness of young adults trying to cope with life. What began as weird bic pen drawings at work, is moving towards a more emotional, introspective stake. It’s a preposterous notion to make sense out of life through a comic strip. But I find more happiness drawing Kyle and Henry fighting over a sandwich than just about anything else.
I don’t rightly know what Pangaea is about. I just see it as this big, clumsy mass of nonsense that helps me to understand things a little better.
-Kevin Wolf