Chapter 3, strip 9
Kara the Brave (the comic)
An eleven-year-old girl who spends most of her free time tromping about her mountainous back yard in a heroic getup of her own design, Kara loves the idea of an adventure. The real thing, on the other hand…
Thea van Diepen (the creator)
Thea van Diepen spent the first ten years of her life on a tree-wrapped acreage where an inquisitive child might believe in magic. Nowadays, she lives in Edmonton, breathing life into characters and worlds and the stories they tell.
She’s been published in the Tesseracts anthology series, and her works include the White Changeling series, The Illuminated Heart, and the interactive short story The Tree and the Grave.