💗 Tender-Hearted was nominated for a 2017 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Minicomic! 💗
This means so much to me! 😵 If you want to read it before voting at @spx, all the comics within Tender-Hearted are on my website:
- “Finding Place” - discovering a love of comics and a girl at the same time, finding identity and community as a queer person and cartoonist.
- “Apt #105" - watching abuse unfold, first-person. This one is short and upsetting.
- “Enough” - the last straw in an abusive relationship.
- “Bi-Furious” - choosing to date women, badass bisexual women in history.
The minicomic itself contains illustrations that tie the stories together, so if you wanna read that, it’s on my web store for $6 with free shipping in the US!
Thank you for reading my comics, and sometimes enjoying them, it means the world to share them with people 🌸
TENDER-HEARTED now for sale on my Storenvy, $6!
Tender-Hearted is a collection of autobio comics, charting my journey from baby-queer discovering I liked girls and comics, through a harrowing abusive relationship, and into the self-actualized queer adult I am today.
Contains the comics “Finding Place,” “Apt #105 381 Troutman Street,” “Enough,” and “Bi-Furious,” with additional sketches and illustrations.
CW for depictions of self-harm and emotional abuse.
5.5"x8.5", 28 pages, saddle-stitched, color cover with color & b&w interior.
Reading about abusive men and the way they think. Very unsettling and an incredible book so far. Here are my very professional notes.
what book is this?
This is from “Why Does He DO That” by Lundy Bancroft.
I’m so glad I’m seeing more and more Lundy Bancroft quotes on my dash because this book CHANGES THE LIVES OF ABUSE VICTIMS.
The programs run for rehabilitating abusive men through the courts? Bancroft DESIGNED THEM. His programs are replicated ALL OVER THE WORLD.
He literally wrote THE book on abuser rehabilitation.
Here’s a link to a pdf copy. If you haven’t read this book yet, read this book.
Can we talk about how it seems like the entirety of the book is online on PDF, this making it accessible to anyone with an internet connection?
That is how we stop abuse.
We enable everyone to know what it looks like, so that when it happens, they can shut it down.
I normally keep this blog to art updates, but I can honestly say that Why Does He Do That? (which I read as a PDF, thanks to discovering it on tumblr!) changed my life. I’ve been looking for a way to share it with people for a while now. So, here you go. Hugely recommended.