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		<title>Randylyon at 02:58, 22 June 2021</title>
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 02:58, 22 June 2021&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l3&quot;&gt;Line 3:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A graduate of [[WAHLERT CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL]], Varner studied creative writing at the University of Iowa. She moved to New York in 2008 to get into the publishing industry. Picking up illustration and design, she enjoyed the creative process. After taking a class on anatomy for cartoonists, she got involved with a comics writing workshop.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A graduate of [[WAHLERT CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL]], Varner studied creative writing at the University of Iowa. She moved to New York in 2008 to get into the publishing industry. Picking up illustration and design, she enjoyed the creative process. After taking a class on anatomy for cartoonists, she got involved with a comics writing workshop.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The result &#039;&#039;&#039;Blown Away&#039;&#039;&#039;, a sci-fi noir comic featuring black and white interiors and an emphasis on expressive facial illustration, is placed in rural Iowa in 1980. Its main character, Hallie Pearson, is known as &quot;Tornado Hallie&quot;, a journalist who lost her best friend to a mysterious tornado and has been haunted by the event for five years.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The result&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;, &lt;/ins&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Blown Away&#039;&#039;&#039;, a sci-fi noir comic featuring black and white interiors and an emphasis on expressive facial illustration, is placed in rural Iowa in 1980. Its main character, Hallie Pearson, is known as &quot;Tornado Hallie&quot;, a journalist who lost her best friend to a mysterious tornado and has been haunted by the event for five years.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Varner credited Charles Burns, creator of the indie comic, &quot;Black Hole,&quot; as her No. 1 artistic influence &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;as well as &lt;/del&gt;Alan Moore&#039;s writing in &quot;Swamp Thing,&quot; &quot;The X-Files&quot; television show and Tim Seeley and Mike Norton&#039;s comic &quot;Revival.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Varner credited Charles Burns, creator of the indie comic, &quot;Black Hole,&quot; as her No. 1 artistic influence&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;; &lt;/ins&gt;Alan Moore&#039;s writing in &quot;Swamp Thing,&quot; &quot;The X-Files&quot; television show&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;; &lt;/ins&gt;and Tim Seeley and Mike Norton&#039;s comic &quot;Revival.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Randylyon at 02:07, 6 March 2019</title>
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		<title>Randylyon at 02:07, 6 March 2019</title>
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot;&gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:avarner.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Telegraph Herald]]VARNER, Alyssa. (Dubuque, IA--  ). The first issue of Varner&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Blown Away,&amp;quot; a planned six-issue comic book, was released in April 2015. The entire self-published project including writing, illustration and graphic design was her creation. She also became the book&amp;#039;s marketer and salesperson.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:avarner.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Telegraph Herald]]VARNER, Alyssa. (Dubuque, IA--  ). The first issue of Varner&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Blown Away,&amp;quot; a planned six-issue comic book, was released in April 2015. The entire self-published project including writing, illustration and graphic design was her creation. She also became the book&amp;#039;s marketer and salesperson.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A graduate of [[WAHLERT HIGH SCHOOL]], Varner studied creative writing at the University of Iowa. She moved to New York in 2008 to get into the publishing industry. Picking up illustration and design, she enjoyed the creative process. After taking a class on anatomy for cartoonists, she got involved with a comics writing workshop.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A graduate of [[WAHLERT &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;CATHOLIC &lt;/ins&gt;HIGH SCHOOL]], Varner studied creative writing at the University of Iowa. She moved to New York in 2008 to get into the publishing industry. Picking up illustration and design, she enjoyed the creative process. After taking a class on anatomy for cartoonists, she got involved with a comics writing workshop.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The result &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Blown Away&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, a sci-fi noir comic featuring black and white interiors and an emphasis on expressive facial illustration, is placed in rural Iowa in 1980. Its main character, Hallie Pearson, is known as &amp;quot;Tornado Hallie&amp;quot;, a journalist who lost her best friend to a mysterious tornado and has been haunted by the event for five years.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The result &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Blown Away&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, a sci-fi noir comic featuring black and white interiors and an emphasis on expressive facial illustration, is placed in rural Iowa in 1980. Its main character, Hallie Pearson, is known as &amp;quot;Tornado Hallie&amp;quot;, a journalist who lost her best friend to a mysterious tornado and has been haunted by the event for five years.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Randylyon at 20:02, 2 January 2016</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:avarner.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Telegraph Herald]]VARNER, Alyssa. (Dubuque, IA--  ). The first issue of Varner&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Blown Away,&amp;quot; a planned six-issue comic book, was released in April 2015. The entire self-published project including writing, illustration and graphic design was her creation. She also became the book&amp;#039;s marketer and salesperson.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:avarner.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Telegraph Herald]]VARNER, Alyssa. (Dubuque, IA--  ). The first issue of Varner&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Blown Away,&amp;quot; a planned six-issue comic book, was released in April 2015. The entire self-published project including writing, illustration and graphic design was her creation. She also became the book&amp;#039;s marketer and salesperson.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A [[WAHLERT HIGH SCHOOL]] &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;graduate&lt;/del&gt;, Varner studied creative writing at the University of Iowa. She moved to New York in 2008 to get into the publishing industry. Picking up illustration and design, she enjoyed the creative process. After taking a class on anatomy for cartoonists, she got involved with a comics writing workshop.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;graduate of &lt;/ins&gt;[[WAHLERT HIGH SCHOOL]], Varner studied creative writing at the University of Iowa. She moved to New York in 2008 to get into the publishing industry. Picking up illustration and design, she enjoyed the creative process. After taking a class on anatomy for cartoonists, she got involved with a comics writing workshop.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The result &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;was &lt;/del&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Blown Away&#039;&#039;&#039;, a sci-fi noir comic featuring black and white interiors and an emphasis on expressive facial illustration, is placed in rural Iowa in 1980. Its main character, Hallie Pearson, is known as &quot;Tornado Hallie&quot;, a journalist who lost her best friend to a mysterious tornado and has been haunted by the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;loss &lt;/del&gt;for five years.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The result &#039;&#039;&#039;Blown Away&#039;&#039;&#039;, a sci-fi noir comic featuring black and white interiors and an emphasis on expressive facial illustration, is placed in rural Iowa in 1980. Its main character, Hallie Pearson, is known as &quot;Tornado Hallie&quot;, a journalist who lost her best friend to a mysterious tornado and has been haunted by the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;event &lt;/ins&gt;for five years.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Varner credited Charles Burns, creator of the indie comic, &amp;quot;Black Hole,&amp;quot; as her No. 1 artistic influence as well as Alan Moore&amp;#039;s writing in &amp;quot;Swamp Thing,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The X-Files&amp;quot; television show and Tim Seeley and Mike Norton&amp;#039;s comic &amp;quot;Revival.&amp;quot;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Varner credited Charles Burns, creator of the indie comic, &amp;quot;Black Hole,&amp;quot; as her No. 1 artistic influence as well as Alan Moore&amp;#039;s writing in &amp;quot;Swamp Thing,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The X-Files&amp;quot; television show and Tim Seeley and Mike Norton&amp;#039;s comic &amp;quot;Revival.&amp;quot;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Randylyon</name></author>
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		<title>Randylyon: Created page with &quot;Photo courtesy: Telegraph HeraldVARNER, Alyssa. (Dubuque, IA--  ). The first issue of Varner&#039;s &quot;Blown Away,&quot; a planned six-issue comic b...&quot;</title>
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		<updated>2016-01-02T19:56:56Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;/index.php/File:Avarner.jpg&quot; title=&quot;File:Avarner.jpg&quot;&gt;left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Telegraph Herald&lt;/a&gt;VARNER, Alyssa. (Dubuque, IA--  ). The first issue of Varner&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Blown Away,&amp;quot; a planned six-issue comic b...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Image:avarner.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Telegraph Herald]]VARNER, Alyssa. (Dubuque, IA--  ). The first issue of Varner&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Blown Away,&amp;quot; a planned six-issue comic book, was released in April 2015. The entire self-published project including writing, illustration and graphic design was her creation. She also became the book&amp;#039;s marketer and salesperson.&lt;br /&gt;
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A [[WAHLERT HIGH SCHOOL]] graduate, Varner studied creative writing at the University of Iowa. She moved to New York in 2008 to get into the publishing industry. Picking up illustration and design, she enjoyed the creative process. After taking a class on anatomy for cartoonists, she got involved with a comics writing workshop. &lt;br /&gt;
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The result was &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Blown Away&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, a sci-fi noir comic featuring black and white interiors and an emphasis on expressive facial illustration, is placed in rural Iowa in 1980. Its main character, Hallie Pearson, is known as &amp;quot;Tornado Hallie&amp;quot;, a journalist who lost her best friend to a mysterious tornado and has been haunted by the loss for five years.&lt;br /&gt;
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Varner credited Charles Burns, creator of the indie comic, &amp;quot;Black Hole,&amp;quot; as her No. 1 artistic influence as well as Alan Moore&amp;#039;s writing in &amp;quot;Swamp Thing,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The X-Files&amp;quot; television show and Tim Seeley and Mike Norton&amp;#039;s comic &amp;quot;Revival.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Frenzel, Anthony. &amp;quot;Dubuque Native Gets Creative with indie Comic Books, Telegraph Herald, THonline.com http://www.thonline.com/news/feature_stories/article_5f2ebf77-e289-5b71-8fe8-986554def1ee.html&lt;br /&gt;
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