Kendall Lyons Imagination Fund Application — By and By
The Misunderstanding of Walter Ayo is a planned By and By graphic novel by Kendall Lyons for readers ages 8 to 12, about 11-year-old Walter Ayo finding friends and fitting in at middle school. This is Kendall Lyons's 2024 Playbook Imagination Fund application, with past comics and illustrations.

Artist statement
My comics and illustrations are meant to recapture innocence and deliver a sense of purity in creativity and artistic expression. My work is also about exploring a period of "coming of age" and childhood, or in my case boyhood, that once was and that in some ways still is as we strive in humanity never to lose our sense of childlike wonder. My art also captures life as someone who is neurodivergent.
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