AHS Seniors Julia Rodenberger and Zara Hayat paint through the hallways of Haverhill as they host an art gallery in downtown Haverhill, capturing the attention of everyone who attended the event on September 30.
Guided by their art teacher, Meghan Michaud, Rodenberger and Hayat embarked on a mission to showcase the talents of their peers. They reached out to former classmates and neighboring high school art students, creating a diverse collection of artworks. “Zara and Julia were both juniors but had to participate quite a bit because they were in an advanced art portfolio course,” Michaud said.
STAFF PHOTO / Lojyn Elketory Meghan Michaud, Zara Hayat, and Julia Rodenberger pose in front of an art exhibit.
The artists who showcased their pieces have explored various techniques and materials as they navigate their way through the art gallery’s transformation theme. Mars Tasiopoulos, a current senior at AHS, used photographs of industrial cityscapes as a canvas, infusing them with acrylic paints to depict nature’s view over urban landscapes.
Hayat’s piece, featuring her grandmother’s handwriting overlaid with poetry, showcased the delicate fusion of heritage and artistry. “She had to take her grandmother’s handwriting and learn transfer methods to duplicate that onto the surface of the painting,” Michaud said,” she wasn’t just using portraiture; she was applying new skills by learning how to incorporate other people’s handwriting into her work.”
Organizing an event of this scale was not without its challenges. Coordinating with artists from within AHS and neighboring towns, required a lot of planning. Some students faced last-minute changes, and others stepped up, showcasing their resilience and commitment to their craft. Rodenberger reflected on the students’ participation, “To just take opportunities… sometimes it can turn out to be really neat. Take advantage of that.”
The success of this event paved the way for future collaborations. Michaud stated, “[AHS] used to do a collaborative art show with the Greater Lawrence Educational Collaborative.” She is in contact with other high school teachers “to try to do a similar art show where we get to show the best of many high schools in a location.”
“I feel like even if you aren’t an art person, Ceramics class could be a really fun part of [your day],” claimed Emily Ross, the instructor of the class in question. She believes that students could unexpectedly enjoy ceramics just as she did as a teenager.
Ross began her journey with ceramics in a high school class, but couldn’t incorporate her passion for ceramics into a career as smoothly as she could fix a crack in clay. She was met with many roadblocks. Being accepted into a top ceramics school did not prove as magical as she thought. She describes the city as one having “more cows than people,” which left her searching for a new school and a creative avenue that fit her best.
When she finally found her love for teaching ceramics and finished her undergraduate degree, she was ready to move into the workforce. Getting back into teaching ceramics led her to pursue a master’s degree in Art Education.
An exciting path for art students and curious learners in general, Ceramics and 3D design has become a popular course at AHS. Students get to work with clay and create functional, artistic designs as they learn essential skills of construction, carving, smoothing, and more along the way. Taught by a student herself, this class is made authentic by the shared perspective Ross offers to her students. Student and teacher, to her, are “two sides of the same coin.” Her experience in a studio as a student helps create the perfect environment for her own students at work. She has now incorporated the work of her two worlds into a project many students are curious about.
Ross is pursuing her master’s degree at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, and her coursework involves reflective practices around her teaching work at AHS. “The course I’m taking is called Action Research,” says Ross, “and the class is really an extension of everything that we do as effective educators.” Collecting and recording her students’ diverse ideas, creative processes, and studio work isn’t a new process, but this time Ross plans to showcase this work and data in her class of art educators at UMass. Everything from the first idea to drafts to impulsive changes in plans is documented. “[It is] a great way to study the effectiveness of my teaching on our students because it leaves so much room for interpretation and exploration,” Ross said.
This project, of course, required consent from both students and families, which led to some “very official-looking” contracts being sent home to parents and guardians. “Because I’m doing it [for] an outside source… they need to have that official process,” said Ross, smiling about the students struggling with the contract’s heavy language.
Ross says she didn’t want anyone to worry or feel pressured by it, but student response has been quite positive. People have chosen to offer their work as a part of the research, where their names will be held confidential. Some have also consented to allow photographs of their work to be included, which Ross truly appreciates. Her data includes statements from the students and in-progress reflections, which are interesting reads even for other students. Ross loves the way students take creative risks and incorporate their various other interests into their work; biology, activism, music, pets, and all kinds of ideas have been crafted in clay in her studio.
The student’s work will be unaffected by the research. So students with and without their work being showcased have been working on their clay as usual. It doesn’t change much in the Ceramics studio: only a few moments when the instructor is quietly walking around trying to capture hands working on shaping and sculpting clay. Sparking conversations about identity-driven stories, Ross loves hearing about the students’ varied academic and creative passions coming together in their sculptures.
Ross encourages students to engage with the arts. “We can be so focused on honing in for, like, a career path these days.” Even for students who aren’t ‘art kids’, or think they aren’t like Ross did, “It feels like a place of rest. And also of self-discovery, and comfort.”
AHS Drama Guild to Put On Cinderella as Fall Musical
Harry Guo and Brandon Nguyen STAFF WRITERS
Andover High School’s fall musical, Cinderella, brings a fresh look to the classic tale. The production plans to offer new interpretations of its characters, story, and message.
This year’s fall musical may not be the Cinderella story one would expect. Unlike the classic Disney Cinderella, AHS drama director Susan Choquette has decided to put on the 2013 Broadway version by Douglas Carter Beane, with a score by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. In this retelling of the classic tale, the plot becomes much more modernized and comical while also giving characters more substance and touching on themes of leadership and equality.
According to Aislinn Cantin, a senior and the actress playing Cinderella in the play, the new Cinderella is more confident and three-dimensional, not just someone waiting around to be saved by a prince. “For a lot of Andover High School [students], this is a new experience for them to see this type of show,” said Cantin. “It’s definitely a lot of work, but I’m having a really fun time and it’s really exciting to see everything come together… I think it could be really amazing.”
The cast and crew are ready to take up the challenge as they break old stereotypes the initial story had set for them. James Wong, a senior and the male lead in the play, described the characters as more in-depth and less stereotypical. His character, Prince Topher, is given more personality as the plot explores his role as the kingdom’s leader. “It allows for so much interpretation, for both the artist and the audience,” said Wong. “I could play a role in one way… and it could be received by an audience member in a very unique and different way.”
With many talented students and one of the largest numbers of students involved in a production, Choquette needed to find a way to offer more opportunities, which was one of the reasons why she chose this version of Cinderella. There’s an expansion of more featured roles, and the peasants even have a subplot where they raise their voices in protest against a dictatorial government and have an uprising. “We poke fun at lots of things, so keep an open mind about that,” said Choquette. “It’s the same tale at the end of the day, but it’s told in a different way that gives the audience a little more credit.”
Junyi Ye, a freshman and member of both the cast and stage crew, said the plot “gives [the play] more meaning than just an everyday love story between a prince and a princess. [It] relates to the actual living of lower-class people.”
Still, there is a sense of familiarity with the original Cinderella. The score from Rodgers and Hammerstein has been kept mostly untouched. Elise Yen, a freshman and pit musician for the play, said that they are “trying to play everything at the original speed [and] play it as written 60 years ago.”
Ultimately, Choquette is looking to bring new experiences to both the cast and the audience. She chose to put on a children’s musical like Cinderella to give students a variety of shows in their high school years, as the last time AHS put on a similar show was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 2014. This performance may be new for some, and Choquette hopes the audience will be able to have fun with the script and enjoy a more contemporary interpretation. “I hope that those who are a part of the drama guild as well as the audience feel like we’re making great art,” Choquette concluded.
After a successful year, the leadership of Ink, Andover High School’s literary magazine, expresses their pride in this year’s activities, as well as hopes for the future of the magazine.
From poems to artwork, Ink offers an outlet for students to express their opinions and feelings in an artistic way. The club meets every Tuesday after school and has released two issues this year. Co-editors Abinaya Ganesh and Avanthika Suryadevara run the club, along with teacher advisors Erin Niles, Rachel Gelinas, and Eric Pellerin.
Several years ago, a literary magazine called Fonts existed within AHS but was ultimately discontinued.In 2018, AHS’s main news magazine, The Warrior, was split into separate bodies. One of these bodies took the Warrior title and has now become Ink. According to Ganesh, “leadership last year started the transition into a literary magazine, and now [they are] Ink Magazine.”
COURTESY PHOTO / Ink Magazine The cover of the first issue of Ink Magazine, with a picture drawn by Mars Tasiopoulos
Ganesh and Suryadevara are both very proud of Ink’s progress this year. “We have really evolved from what the magazine was in the past,” said Suryadevara, “[we] shift[ed] from research-based articles and some art to much more creativity.” Ganesh shared similar ideas and also added that this year has been a learning experience and was challenging at first. However, after a few months of brainstorming and hard work, Ink magazine was back on track.
“My favorite part about running the club is getting to hear all the unique expressions of the student voice,” said Niles. Niles has been a part of AHS’s literary magazine since 2019 and is very happy with the progress that has been made on the style and goals of the literary magazine. She explained that Ink has shifted into “a real literary magazine” this year and expressed her particular interest in the poetry showcased. “We don’t often digest a lot of art in literature in our lives,” Niles said, and Ink magazine is a great way for students to include art in their school lives.
For the co-editors, running this magazine after the leadership of seniors graduating was demanding but memorable. “Publishing our first issue was one of my proudest moments,” said Ganesh. “There were many moments in working on our winter issue where we had to scrap everything we were working on and start over with a new perspective.”
Suryadevara enjoys seeing all the different types of artwork that AHS students submit and publish the most. “When the first submissions start to trickle in, it always makes me so excited and I can’t wait to see how the final version of the magazine will turn out,” she said.
When asked about plans for Ink magazine’s future, Suryadevara said she hopes to get two or three issues out every year, and possibly even special editions such as poetry-exclusive issues. Suryadevera said, “I am really happy with what we accomplished this year and I’m excited to see where we go next year!”
You can find Ink Magazine issues with any English teacher and in room 112. Submit art or writing that you are proud of to the email ahs.ink.magazine@gmail.com at any time.
The Andover High School band has been around for many years and is a very important part of our school culture. Whether it be the marching band that plays in the football games or the concert bands that are spread throughout the year, it’s important for the students of AHS to get familiar with a few of the members behind the AHS band.
COURTESY PHOTO / Jeffery Kuchan AHS Marching Band of fall 2021
Arjun Chandra, a junior at AHS, has been playing saxophone for many years in the band and found that it helped him meet many great people. “I feel I always have someone to talk to,” said Chandra.
Chandra described his favorite experiences of making music with the AHS band. “Making music with my closest friends is a lot of fun,” said Chandra. His favorite piece of music to play with his bandmates is a song called “Canzona” that he played during his freshman year of high school.
A junior at AHS, May Wallace has also been a part of the AHS band for many years and has found that it brings her a lot of positive energy.
Wallace described her future plans with the band and if she plans to continue her effort in music.
“I plan on continuing band for the rest of high school but I’m not sure for the future,” said Wallace.
COURTESY PHOTO / Jeffery Kuchan Jeffery Kuchan, AHS band director
Andover High School band director Jeffery Kuchan is new to AHS this year and is looking forward to a productive year of music. Kuchan had been involved with some form of band for many years of his life and shares why he loves being in the band room so much. “Band has always been a home for me. It’s been a place where I can explore, imagine, and be creative,” said Kuchan.
Kuchan explains what piqued his interest in being the band director for AHS. He explains that the community of Andover has much to offer in terms of music ability and he is hoping to help many young musicians develop and grow. “I love working with students who are always asking the big questions: how, what, and why,” said Kuchan.
Kuchan has been able to experience many things because of his passion for band. In high school, he was able to march in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and has memories of performing with his friends in the band. “My strongest and oldest friendships were forged through band, and being involved in the arts has opened many doors throughout my life,” said Kuchan.
Kuchan has high hopes for the future of the AHS band and their potential to make music. His main goal is to help the group of musicians have the most successful and memorable high school band. He hopes to inspire the kids to continue spreading music. “I see a lot of hungry music students [here] eager to try new things,” said Kuchan.
COURTESY PHOTO / Jeffrey Kuchan AHS Marching Band of fall 2021
Andover High School will add Advanced Placement (AP) 2D Design to the curriculum in the 2022-2023 school year.
Taking an AP class could look good on a transcript, and students who do well on the AP test may get college credit for it. AHS offers AP classes in a variety of subjects, but there are currently no AP classes in the fine arts department.
“[The school has been] sending the message that the arts are not as valued at the school as STEM is,” said senior Giulia Panzica, who plans to study art in college.
Since there were no art APs offered, some students, including Panzica, had to study for the art AP tests on their own and take them outside of school. Having AP classes on their transcripts can help students get into art school, and are required by many international schools for American applicants.
COURTESY PHOTO / Giulia Panzica “The Pinecone and the Tree” created by Giulia Panzica
“Some of us need this on our transcripts and it’s ridiculous that it’s not more of a problem,” said Panzica.
Panzica, who applied to international schools, took AP Art History through Virtual High School (VHS) and is now taking AP Drawing. AP Art History is a test-based course like most AP classes, and AP Drawing requires students to submit a portfolio of their work as their test.
“It sucks. It was the worst,” Panzica said, describing her experience taking AP Art History on VHS. “I feel like I would have learned so much more in a classroom with a teacher who was explaining things, but it was just me researching on Khan Academy.”
Most students take Portfolio I senior year, but some take Portfolio I junior year and Portfolio II senior year. The curriculum is a two-year cycle, so every other year students are taught different content.
Currently AHS upperclassmen who are interested in studying art in college can take Portfolio I or Portfolio II. Portfolio I and II meet in the same class and are taught by the same teacher. In Portfolio, students create a portfolio of their artwork to apply to art school with.
AP 2D Design will replace Portfolio II as an upper-level art class for seniors to take. “Those upper level, second year Portfolio students have a chance to get college credit,” said Sean Walsh, director of the fine arts department. “[They] also get to specialize, work with some of the AP skills.”
AP 2D Design involves writing and research related to the students’ artwork, which would be more prominent in the curriculum of AP Design than in the Portfolio II curriculum. AP Design will also have specific guidelines for submissions, which could influence student work.
COURTESY PHOTO / Giulia Panzica “Vaso Siciliano” created by Giulia Panzica
Walsh hopes that after AP Design is introduced, the class will grow. According to Walsh, around five students are expected to take it next year. He also hopes adding an AP class will eventually separate Portfolio I and II and set apart the second year Portfolio students.
“We recognize that [students have] developed already what’s going to get [them into college], now [they can] develop something that’s going to provide [them] some credits there,” said Walsh, explaining the purpose of AP Design.
Despite AP Design being a different class than Portfolio II, students will still be able to get help from an experienced teacher on their art school application. “[Portfolio] gives you insight into the college application processes, which is a lot of what we go over and is very hard to navigate even with Portfolio,” said senior Jillian Boyer.
While most students are excited for an AP art class to be offered, an alumni feels differently. Kai Lonie, who graduated from AHS in 2021 and is now attending MassArt, does not think AP 2D Design is a necessary addition to the curriculum.
COURTESY PHOTO / Jillian Boyer “Self Portrait” created by Jillian Boyer
Lonie explained there are large differences between high school and college art classes. “[AP art classes] don’t prepare you for college at all, considering all of my studio classes are five hours long and only meet once a week,” they said.
Lonie described studio classes as “made to give you uninhibited time to work on art,” which high school can’t provide. Each studio class also focuses on a different topic, from drawing to the concept of time in art. They “take the semester to teach and expand on that idea.” This is very different from high school and not an experience any high school class can prepare students for, according to Lonie.
Overall, people are looking forward to the new addition to the curriculum.
“Having an AP art class at this school is important because it opens up more opportunities for higher learning in art,” said Boyer.
Julia Kole, the lead from the recent play Mamma Mia, plans to major in the field of public health rather than performing arts.
STAFF PHOTO / Angela Mac
Kole is a senior and a widely known performer at Andover High School. Being a performer takes a lot of time and work, and Kole doesn’t know if that’s something she wants. She stated, “You have to know what you want and you have to go at it full force.” She may love theater, but she isn’t interested in that type of tough and intense environment.
Kole takes interest in public health for a multitude of reasons. She has always been fascinated by different diseases and loves measuring and experimenting; however, what she loves most is helping people. Though she doesn’t plan on majoring in theater, she plans to continue it on the side. All the colleges Kole applied to have acapella and theater groups, as they are a “requirement for [her].” Another option she considered was either minoring or double majoring in music; however, it would be along the lines of music production or theory instead of performing arts.
Kole’s love for theater started in second grade. She always enjoyed the feeling of being on stage. Though Kole’s been on stage countless times, she still gets nervous because she wants to give the audience a good show. The people in the Show Choir and the AHS Drama Guild have always been family for Kole. After rehearsals, she would hang out with her fellow cast members in the dressing room. “I talk to them a lot,” Kole said. “They were my people. I like to think I was kinda their person. But you gotta find your people.”
To students that are interested in doing theater in high school, she said, “It never hurts to try.” Kole explained that theater is a great community and that in a tough environment like high school, it’s good to have that kind of support. It also opens up opportunities for students interested in theater, show choir, and performing arts.
Besides acting and performing, Kole loves playing guitar, songwriting, and learning American Sign Language (ASL). She loves ASL because “you have to be so expressive when you’re signing to get the proper meaning across and I just love being expressive.”
Being expressive is something Kole excels at and is one of the reasons why she loves theater and performing. Though Kole has plans in the field of public health, theater and performing arts will always be a part of her life.
Andover High School’s 2021 theater production, Mamma Mia!, is going great in a post-COVID-19 year as the November 18 debut grows closer.
The cast and supporting crew of Mamma Mia! were more ready than ever to pick back up with shows as they were before the COVID-19 pandemic. Tessa Barcelo, a senior and lead role in the play explained that the acting crew had settled back into pre-COVID theatre well and was making notable progress towards a great production despite the setbacks last year.
“We’ve learned to roll with the punches,” Barcelo said, “[The production] has gone right back to the Collins Center stage, so we feel at home again.”
The production this year is not without its difficulties, and according to Barcelo, wearing masks during the performance has an impact on the cast’s ability to sing. However, she and other cast members have found workarounds for the potential issues of wearing masks on stage that still ensure COVID safety. “Disposable masks, because they’re more flexible, let you open your mouth more and sing better than the cloth masks,” Barcelo noted, “They’re better for projecting.”
GUEST PHOTO / Anat Briskin Tech crew member Jillian Boyer painting tiles for the Mamma Mia set
This year there have been a few notable additions to the production staff that according to the Director of Arts at AHS, Susan Choquette, have helped boost the potential for the show. “Typically Mr. Desjardins is the musical director of the play, but he recently just had a baby,” Choquette said, “…so I invited a colleague of mine,…Thom Smoker. He’s a great musician and singer, he works well with young voices, and also he’s now teaching music…at Berklee School of Music and Endicott College, so he’s really fitting us in.”
Choquette also explained that Mamma Mia has a new choreographer, Stephanie Morris: the owner of the local dance studio Creative Arts Academy. “She’s working really hard because there’s a lot of dance in this show,” Choquette stated.
This year’s show has had a demanding regiment thus far, and according to Choquette, that was not likely to let up until the day of Mamma Mia’s debut. “Somebody’s rehearsing…six days a week, whether it’s me, or Thom, or Stephanie. Sometimes there are even two rehearsals in a day.” Choquette said, “We’re a busy group trying to get ready for this performance…it takes a village.”
Despite the strenuous schedule and minor COVID-related nuisances, Mamma Mia’s cast is keeping a positive mentality and has set the bar high for the production this year. Choquette described Mamma Mia as the perfect fit for production in a post-pandemic year: heartwarming, well known, and all-around fun.
“What I’ve learned is that we can do anything,” Choquette said. “Bring on a global pandemic, we’re still going to make theater.”
Another major cast member of Mamma Mia, Sadie Rooney, matched Choquette’s praise of the production’s progress thus far. “It’s been a long journey, but we have overcome a lot of the roadblocks put in our path by COVID… The sets and lighting this year are truly gorgeous and I’m so glad to be back on the stage.” Rooney said, “Because of the lack of theatre in many places last year, the cast is even bigger than ever and so excited to be performing once again.”
Rooney spoke for the entire cast when she described her excitement for this year’s production. “From what [the production staff] have said to me, they seem to be just as excited as we are. They all give up so much time and energy to this production and we are all so incredibly grateful.” Rooney continued, “ABBA is a fan favorite for many, so I think Mamma Mia is a perfect way to bring back theatre [to Andover].”
Barcelo, Choquette, Rooney, and the rest of Mamma Mia’s staff urge everyone available to check out the show and have exclaimed high expectations for this year’s production. “It’s such a fun show and not something you’ll want to miss!” Rooney concluded.
Tickets will be sold at the door or online at the Andover Theatre Arts website. Be sure to check out Mamma Mia’s debut at the AHS Collins Center:
Andona, a local fundraising organization, is holding an Andover Kids Artwork Contest in honor of its 70th anniversary. All Andover residents under the age of 18 are eligible to participate.
Participants can submit original hand-drawn work based on their experience in Clown Town or how Andona has helped them. Artwork must be submitted along with their submission form at Memorial Hall Library or mailed to Andona, PO Box 256, Andover, MA 01810 by October 15, 2021 at 5 p.m. The submission form may be found at https://andona.org/artwork-contest.
“The purpose of the artwork event is to provide children the opportunity to express their thoughts, memories, and experiences with Andona or Andona’s Clown Town,” according to a press release from Andona.
The organization is looking for artwork of the participants’ favorite game, ride, or memory from Andona’s Clown Town. They would also like to have some art representing how Andona has supported youths or their clubs, teams, or organizations.
STAFF PHOTO / Alana MacKay-Kao A banner created for the comic that features two of the main characters on the right hand side, with a couple of glowy creatures known as entities floating nearby them.
Do you like comics? How about wholesome stories? Amazing character design? Or perhaps… giant chickens? Then Entity will definitely be the story for you.
Entity is a soon-to-be-released webcomic made by AHS students Alana MacKay-Kao and Abby Chou. The story is about a girl named Apollonia (Pollie) Agro, who lives in an isolated but tight-knit community.
The two seniors have been playing around with this idea for a long time. It all started last summer when Chou saw the concept art for Pollie and Zitto, her giant chicken companion, in one of MacKay-Kao’s sketchbooks. The drawing Chou saw is the first one included here.
In the winter, they started discussing it again, and started calling regularly to work on it. They split up the work, MacKay-Kao doing the art and Chou doing most of the script writing.
“I was so unbelievably stuck,” said MacKay-Kao, adding that she wanted to make this comic and she knew the direction she wanted the characters to go in, but she couldn’t figure out how to get the characters’ motivations to come together. But Chou had ideas that resolved every issue and within just a couple of hours.
“It was amazing! She is the organization to my chaos,” MacKay-Kao said.
The two of them agreed they made an excellent team. Chou said that she thinks it’s because “Alana’s always coming up with cool ideas and I have the executive planning skills to make those ideas happen!”
As the two worked more on the story together, they were able to resolve another of the biggest issues, which was how the main characters would act. “I couldn’t figure out how Pollie would act and speak, and I had struggled so much with writing her that I hadn’t even tried writing any of her friends,” MacKay-Ko said. However, after more teamwork on the project, she said “It was like I was watching this perfect representation of exactly how I imagined Pollie being come to life right before my eyes that I hadn’t been able to write myself. It was absolutely magical!”
Speaking of Pollie, “Exploring is her passion,” Chou said. “She knows all the best paths to take and sights to see for miles around, and everyone in the community knows her as the nature expert. After years of leading hiking tours out beyond the city’s bounds, her instincts in nature are sharp, and she relies on them often.”
She and her best friends, Skyla and Sanrin, are about to turn 20, meaning that they will get to transition from school and community service to careers. Pollie can’t wait to start doing nature tours, “until a startling discovery upends her plans and launches her into the adventure of a lifetime,” Chou said.
Chou and MacKay-Kao explained that Pollie discovers there is another entire civilization hundreds miles east of their city, and she goes out to find it. All that hiking beyond the city’s bounds is sure going to pay off.
STAFF PHOTO / Alana MacKay-Kao A banner created for the comic that features two of the main characters on the right hand side, with a couple of glowy creatures known as entities floating nearby them.
They also told ANDOVERVIEW their inspiration behind the title of the webcomic. They decided on the name Entity because in the world the story is set in, there are little semi-sentient blueish, glowy, magical blobs, called entities.
“Not much is known about them, but they’re generally revered in Pollie’s culture,” Chou said. “They can inhabit items and make them move, and when they inhabit certain items they can pull out and show people memories associated with that object from the past.”
Chou and MacKay-Kao both hinted there’s a connection between entities and memories that will be explored later on in the webcomic.
As for the genre of the story, the two of them settled on the “heartwarming” one. “We’re intending it to be generally wholesome and kinda funny, and just fun to read,” Chou said. “There’s nothing dark or spooky or intense or anything. It could also be called fantasy, since it’s set in a different world than ours.”
“This story has grown into something infinitely more fun to make,” MacKay-Kao said. “I think it will be something that we’ll really be able to be proud of!”
They’re expecting to release the first season (several chapters) of this over the summer. They’re planning to have it available on WEBTOON and possibly some other sites as well. To get updates on this and be notified when they post, you can follow MacKay-Kao on Instagram @Sprout4631.
