I feel great about having won the Dwayne McDuffie for diversity because… me being black and her dealing with her mental health, like we’re writing st… - Steenz

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I feel great about having won the Dwayne McDuffie for diversity because… me being black and her dealing with her mental health, like we’re writing stories from our own perspective. And, the more that you have people, marginalized folks, writing from their own perspective, you get more stories that have not really been done before. So, it’s exciting to see this version of mental health. It’s exciting to see this version of people of color, where they’re not really dealing with like microaggressions at the moment because like the building is haunted.

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About Steenz

Christina "Steenz" Stewart (born 1990) is a cartoonist and editor living in the USA, who's known for illustrating Archival Quality and currently authoring and illustrating the daily comic strip Heart of the City. Upon taking over Heart of the City from Mark Tatulli in May 2020, they became the second nationally syndicated Black nonbinary cartoonist, preceded in this distinction by Bianca Xunise only a month prior.

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Alternative Names: Christina "Steenz" Stewart Christina Stewart
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I like to make sure that I have time where I don’t draw at all. So that schedule, I will do it like five out of seven days. And then those two days that I have, I can relax and, when I get back into it, I don’t get burnt out. Because burnout is real. I mean, when I finished Archival Quality, I was like, ‘I’m not gonna draw again.’ And I don’t think I drew anything like in earnest for like four to six months.

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It's all about visibility for me. It took me visually seeing another Black female doing the work for me to have my entire life changed. I always say yes to panels, yes to interviews, because I want to make sure that whoever is looking at the interview sees me. Then maybe kids will end up in a cartooning class saying, “I want to be like Steenz.”

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