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Article: Legends with a modern twist.(Mishtapew Winners ... Sacred Circles explains Indian myths in comic book form)
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- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Move over Superman. Step aside Spiderman and Batman. There's new trio of heroes ready to take the comic book world by storm, and their names are Jesse, Tyra and Chad.
The three are the unlikely heroes of Sacred Circles, a comic book launched by a new comic book company, Birch Bark Comics.
Both the company and the comic book are the brainchild of Brandon Mitchell, a 23-year-old artist and entrepreneur from Listuguj, a Mi'kmaq community located in southeastern Quebec, along the border between Quebec and New Brunswick.
The idea of creating a comic book came to Mitchell a few years back, in November of 2001, when, after studying animation for ...