“I was exhausted at not being able to share the things I made,” she explains. The life of a working animator includes a lot of downtime between projects and airdates, so Dhaliwal began to fill that time with personal projects in comics and illustration. Working on storyboards pushed her to develop her narrative skills and become more adept at building plots and characters.
in 2011 after college and became a flexible talent in the animation industry, writing, storyboarding and directing for series including The Fairly OddParents, Sanjay and Craig and The Owl House, while working for Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Disney Television Animation. “It didn’t really set me up for writing or that much narrative storytelling, but it did give me the fundamentals of drawing and the discipline to do something again and again and again.”ĭhaliwal moved to L.A. “That background in animation got me excited about giving things life,” she says. “I remember going to the school for the program,” she recalls, “but in my head I was just counting how long until I could get back to her room to read more.”Īfter high school, Dhaliwal enrolled in Sheridan College in Ontario to pursue a career in animation, which had fascinated her from early childhood. But her interest in comics wasn’t really sparked until high school, when a student exchange program landed her in the room of a Vancouver student who owned a collection of Shonen Jump, an English-language edition of the popular Japanese manga magazine.
Growing up, the first comics she noticed were Archie comic books, which were everywhere in India when she visited the country on family trips. They inhabit a world of cyclops-focused phone apps and beauty products, thorny interspecies dating etiquette, anti-cyclops slogans like ADAM & EVE NOT ADAM & ONE-EYE, and a socially conscious children’s book, Suzy’s One Eye.īorn and raised in England, Dhaliwal moved with her family to Ontario in the 1990s when she was in middle school. The cast includes a model and activist who was the first cyclops to pose in her world’s equivalent of Playboy, a cyclops/two-eyed couple expecting their first baby, a victim of failed eye-separation surgery who is dealing with his body issues, and a pair of provocative avant-garde cyclops artists whose works the other characters struggle to understand. The loose narrative follows several groups of characters as they navigate the strange, often silly, but undeniably familiar issues of cyclopean vs.
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