Balze, Michelle

Displacement is Shawn Padraic Murphy's first comic book. Displacement initially started as a comedic web comic based on his freshman life at college called "Wesleyan World," but the idea for a serious story suddenly entered, breaking the tone and format of the strip and was quickly abandoned. It was later made into a comic book script that he merged with a fiction story he had created a few years prior. He then collaborated with artist Michelle Balze (a fellow grad student at Southampton College) in 2006. After finally publishing it in single issue format in 2009, it was finally compiled into