It’s that time of year! 🌈
Updated COVID vaccines are mostly for preventing severe acute illness, but it modestly reduces your chances of getting COVID at all! (54% less symptomatic illness in the following 4 months, in this recent MMWR report.)
Best paired with a respirator! People who always wore N95 masks in indoor public settings had *83%* reduced risk of testing positive for COVID, in this 2022 MMWR report.
More info in this zine I made: What’s Up With COVID and How to Protect Yourself: 2024 Edition.
Comics shops can now order BECOMING WHO WE ARE from @PREVIEWSworld!
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAR241344
this is a new KID-FRIENDLY anthology of trans stories that I helped edit, and drew a story for 😊 place your orders / let your #LocalComicShop know!
KICKSTARTER ENDS TOMORROW!
We are well-funded at this point, but it’s still a great opportunity to preorder.
Here are some sample pages:
Brooke Guinan’s story, illustrated by me.
Sam Long’s story, illustrated by @cynthiaycheng.
Other artists include @naomiyaki, @vicomart, @sagecoffey, @vagrats, and @fruityhag!
Thank you so much to everyone who backed and shared the Kickstarter!! Tumblr users really came through. Shoutout to the person who tagged Neil Gaiman, you’re an MVP! Becoming Who We Are is officially a go 🥳
Still a few days left to preorder, and you can get the Kickstarter-exclusive hardcover edition:
Preview of Sam Long’s story, drawn by the amazing Cynthia Yuan Cheng! (@cynthiaycheng, cynthiaycheng.com)
Becoming Who We Are Kickstarter ends Dec 14! Preorder now to help us fund the book!
bit.ly/becomingkickstarter
Here’s a preview of the comic I illustrated about Brooke Guinan, FDNY’s first openly trans firefighter!
Read the whole story, and eight more, by pre-ordering the book on Kickstarter.
I worked on Becoming Who We Are as a co-editor and artist! It’s a great book. Please consider backing the Kickstarter to preorder a copy, and tell your friends about it!
I co-edited a new anthology!!
Becoming Who We Are is a kid-friendly collection of real stories about growing up, based on interviews with cool trans people from many walks of life, drawn by trans cartoonists!
We designed this book with middle-grade readers in mind, because my co-editor is a parent and wanted this book to exist for her own kids. The idea is to give all readers a chance to know and relate to trans people.
Preorder / back the kickstarter now! The book is available as a PDF, softcover, or a kickstarter-exclusive hardcover.
💗 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 🌸
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