Welcome to South Bend: How to Change Your Name in Indiana

 

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This is a comic adaptation of excerpts taken from the author’s essay “My Viking Name,” originally published in Colorado Review.

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Kelcey Parker Ervick is the author of three award-winning books and the forthcoming graphic memoir, The Keeper (Avery/Penguin), about being a goalkeeper in the early years of Title IX. She is the co-editor, with Tom Hart, of the forthcoming Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature. She teaches at Indiana University South Bend. Follow her daily-ish art habit on Follow her daily-ish art habit on Instagram.

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