Short Run Festival Spotlight: Mita Mahato's Cut-Up Comics

Mita Mahato cuts up paper to make gorgeous comics such as her latest, “Sea.”Mita MahatoMita Mahato shapes dark, contemplative, and chuckle-funny comics using collaged strips of newspaper. Aside from looking really cool, the medium allows her to repurpose commercial color to meet artistic ends and to incorporate broken sentences from news stories into her own work, which often explores loss and disconnection.When she's not letting the images speak for themselves, her background in 19t