artist, developer, and teacher.
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💻 I'm a full-stack developer with a deep interest in language, art, economics, system design, and community development. I love building great applications, solving puzzles, and trying to break stuff.

✏️ I am a cartoonist that makes experimental and poetic comics. My work centers around love and curiosity while expanding and bending the comics medium by implementing visual language theory.

🌐 I was born in Venezuela, was raised in Ohio and currently live in Pennsylvania.

🎓I studied Linguistics and Programming at Carnegie Mellon University and received an MFA from the Center of Cartoon Studies.

⚡ I am the Managing Editor at Comics Workbook.

🍎 I provide one-on-one tutoring and mentoring for comics makers and cartoonists.

✏️ I run the Pittsburgh Comics Salon

📚 I co-run the Pittsburgh Zine Fair

✉️ You can reach me at fernandez.juan.j@gmail.com.

❤️ commodity form as community form ❤️