Jack of All Trades, Master of None

Stevi Jaydyne O. Rainford

stevirainford@gmail.com

Instagram: @stv_on_the_moon

Jack of All Trades, Master of None' is a short and personal comic about insecurity, especially the kind that arises when you're a young adult comparing yourself to all the talented people that you know. This insecurity makes you feel like you peaked as a child.

There's an extra part to this phrase floating around online: ‘a Jack of all trades, master of none, is better than a master of one’. This “complete” saying inspired a comic where an insecure young person — who perceives themself as several parts, or clones — acknowledges (and cringes at) their skills one by one until they finally accept the beauty of their lifelong evidence of human creativity.

The irony of the comic is that it requires creativity to come into being in the first place, thus disproving the main character's (my) feelings of inadequacy.