Alison Wight: Greenpoint comic artist is ‘Sent from the Moon’

Alison Wight lives in Greenpoint. She started her webcomic Sent From The Moon a little over two years ago.

Like a lot of artists, a difficult experience turned her creative juices on. As she started to come out of it, someone said that her return to normalcy had been so sudden that it was as if she had been “sent from the moon.”

So she went with it.

The comic has been one of this reporter’s favorite since he first discovered it a little after it launched. The comic doesn’t have a consistent topic or theme. She does each entry about whatever she comes up with that she thinks might be funny, but two things you see a lot of in her comics: kitties and Brooklyn.

Before we go any further, here are a few of her comics we like:

• The first person to do anything in Brooklyn.
• Before the Internet (Reddit hit)
• The Thief (wordless, all-time most popular) (scroll all the way down)

Here’s one more right in our post:

Wight sat down with Technically Brooklyn at Greenpoint’s Keg and Lantern. She said that she used to be afraid of computers, but after starting her comic she got more and more into figuring out how people do certain things in their comics. Now she does almost all of her coloring in computer (except the greys) and got into adding GIFs to some of her strips early (such as this one and this one).

She did her first comic in high school, about a spider called “Smith,” inspired by a real spider on her wall. The drawings were very simple, intentionally. Then she started adding her friends to the strip, drawing everyone as an iconic symbol, such as a question mark smoking a cigarette.

She has two mini comics available: “Margaret Flying,” an amusing story about a girl who discovers a secret society of people that can fly and “Lost and Found” or “Hemorrhage,” which she describes as a little darker than most folks can handle. Wight recently contributed a few pages to a book scripted by Ulises Farinas and Erick Freitas called Amazing Forest. Her issue should come out sometime in early 2014. 

Not including Sent from the Moon in our roundup of local web comics was a major oversight.