Back to daily comics this year! Trying a new project where I keep all of my receipts and make drawings on them, in an attempt not to waste any paper and make myself draw more. (PS, my cat came back out of the floor after a couple minutes, don’t worry!)
TWO PAGES this time because I want to show you all what I’ve been working on! These are the first of 14 pages of a queer slice of life comic I’m working on called She’s So Hard, for my Narrative Forms class with Holly Hughes. I had fun working on it, but I’m not sure about the style so I’m thinking about reworking it over the break and pitching it to a local comics press. Feel free to share any feedback on how it looks!
This week, I talked with Estrella Salgado, a junior studying history with a minor in Museum Studies. She told me all about the perks of the minor, rude people, and her commitment to the power of museums. You can find her at the U-M Museum of Natural History, where she works as a docent.
Cheese making videos are so…relaxing…it’s the curd-cutting, man.
Haloumi is cheese made from goat and sheep milk. That’s really the only part of this one I can explain.
Hope everyone had a relaxing break, and if not I hope you can absorb some of the restful vibes from this comic. Besides giving my lads a chance to chill, I was excited about this page because I wanted to make it a bit more explicit that both of them are trans men. As a trans person myself it’s important to me to represent and normalize trans bodies in media, because we exist and we deserve to see reflections of ourselves in the world! Of course, Basil and Gideon aren’t representational of all trans masc people, but they’re a little bit of what I’d like to have seen when I was growing up and figuring out gender.
