Heart of the City
By Steenz | 5.2K FollowersAbout Heart of the City
Heart is a girl with big dreams and a love of drama. She lives with her mom, Addy, in Philadelphia and has always had the support of her best friends Dean and Kat. "Heart of the City" follows Heart into a new phase of her life, filled with new challenges, new milestones, new friends, and new adventures.
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Meet Steenz
Christina "Steenz" Stewart is a St. Louis-based cartoonist, editor, and professor. They are the co-creator of the Dwayne McDuffie Award-winning graphic novel "Archival Quality" from Oni Press and are featured in several short story anthologies such as the Eisner and Ignatz Award-Winning "Elements: Fire, Mine!" and the horror anthology "Dead Beats." Steenz launched and edited the popular RPG periodical Rolled & Told. They are a winner of Evident Change's 2021 Media for a Just Society Awards.
Steenz participates in and creates community-building comics-related programming and is a frequent panelist at several comic cons. Steenz currently teaches cartooning at Webster University while editing titles from Tapas Media and Mad Cave Studios.
Cast of Characters
Heart
A little girl with a huge imagination and an active inner life. She doesn't like school, but she loves adventure.
Dean
Heart's partner in crime, Dean's an unabashed geek with a love for science fiction and a fearless outlook on life.
Kat
Heart's best friend. Kat provides a slightly more realistic counterpoint to Heart's big dreams, but she's a supportive and delightful playmate.
Charlotte
Charlotte is a theater tech, ghost hunter, and all-around nerd. She’s curious about everything and excited to have new friends in Heart and Dean.