Emma Capps Builds "The Chapel Chronicles"  Wed, March 28th, 2012
at 8:58am PDT  Digital Comics Alex Dueben, Staff Writer  15
year-old cartoonist Emma Capps produces "The Chapel Chronicles"
webcomic each week  Emma Capps is a pretty typical webcartoonist
except for one thing: she hasn't graduated from high school yet.
Her series "The Chapel Chronicles" is an all-ages strip that
tells of the adventures and fantastic imaginings of Chapel
Smith, a Lady Gaga-obsessed 11 year-old with a fondness for
elaborate headwear and a pet hedgehog named Rupert who tends to
sit on top of her head. If drawing a weekly comic strip wasn't
ambitious enough, she also publishes it online in Spanish as
well as English.  The weekly comic succeeds in part because of
its sense of fun. Whether sleep air guitaring, begging for a
puppy, or engaging in board game competitions to the death,
Chapel manages to feel very real and very over the top, often in
the same panel. Emma Takes pain to mention that she is not
Chapel, though the two share