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Scheele is a London-based illustrator, comics artist and co-
founder of small press collective We Are Words + Pictures. She
paused from updating her new website to chat about her
experiences of the UK small press scene with us.  How did you
first get involved in the small press scene? "Largely through
Matt Sheret, who I met after he found my portfolio online in
2008. I was going through some personal issues at the time and
decided to deal with it by just drawing and drawing comics. I
think he found me because I was following Mark Ellerby on
Twitter and he was looking for comics artists to collaborate
with. We formed We Are Words + Pictures and then decided on a
bit of a whim to make something so we could go to Leeds Thought
Bubble. Through him I'd met other small press people at Oli
Smith's London Underground Comics events, and we thought it
would be a good initiation to just jump r