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“I guess I’ve just gotten concerned,” Sincavage says. He wasn’t raised with guns, and doesn’t understand the cultural importance of them, let alone in the Castle Rock suburbs. “Now I’m surrounded by a community that values guns greatly. I’ve had this realization of place, I think. I’m no longer in a New York City echo chamber. I need to be sensitive to what other people think, have a little more awareness of the world outside my own experience.
The town of Castle Rock is central to Sincavage’s zine — a product of place that’s more common in large metropolitan areas. “In New York, people make art about the street they live on,” he says. “Paul Simon wrote songs about Bleeker Street, the Ramones about 53rd and 3rd. Every block in NYC, it seems like someone wrote a book or a song or something about it. You come to Colorado, and that’s not as true. So it seemed like the thing to do. I wanted to recognize the weirdness of Castle Rock.
Sincavage and his wife have two boys, now ages six and two, and he’s just started the process of sending the oldest to school. “The idea of more guns being a solution to gun violence concerns me as a father,” he says. “So I’m exploring that through my drawing. Introspection. Analyzing those inner fears of what could happen. I’m imagining kids, instead of buying a Nirvana shirt or one with the Beatles, they wear shirts devoted to Smith & Wesson — that becoming normal.
In response to all of those concerns, Sincavage began sketching in his journal here and there — just a little at first, butsort of seemed to build itself as he progressed. “I’m not trying to preach,” he insists, “and I certainly don’t want to be a conspiracy theorist. So the goal is to be thoughtful and introduce concepts. Any good comic book is a launch pad for ideas. That’s essentially what I’m trying to do.
That’s Sincavage’s plan going forward, as well — launching various ideas through the medium of sequential art. “I’d like to make a bunch of zines,” he says, “not all about anxiety and firearms, but exploring other things, telling short stories. There’s a lot to talk about; this is just the first conversation it occurred to me to have.”
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