Thrifting
Thrifting is my rumination on what a positive shopping experience looks like as a transgender person. I included my shopping essentials: a cheap, low-stakes environment and a good friend who understands what your dysphoria/euphoria looks like. I also experimented with blank speech bubbles. Their placement and size is intentional to reflect the characters personalities and conversational flow. But, since this is my exploration of a generic transgender experience, I wanted readers to be able to project as much of their own experience onto this zine as possible. Also, you can't often hear the specifics of a stranger's conversation while walking through a store, you can just hear that they're talking. The reader can be the characters in the comic and the other shoppers in the thrift store!
Bugsonas
Bugsonas was originally written and drawn in 2021 and edited in 2023. It's a mash of several ideas. Using art to open yourself to others and express ideas you aren't ready to say out loud, wishing you had a body that others might find strange or foreign, and the visual pun of dogs (a common animal used for fursonas) wishing that they had "fursonas" of their own. I also tried to jam as much of that late middle school-early high school awkwardness as I could.
Little Demeter's Monster Guide (I+II)
These are excerpts from a series of zines I continuously work on, the Little Demeter's Monster Guide! LDMG is a creative outlet for my intense, non-stop urge to create silly monsters, and I hope to make many more additions to the series.
Little Demeter's Monster Guide I was circulated by Zine-o-Matic, a monthly zine subscription service.
Little Demeter's Monster Guide I was circulated by Zine-o-Matic, a monthly zine subscription service.
Line
Line was originally created to be a zine I could fold from a single piece of printer paper, and has since become one of my most popular zines to date!
Set in Stone
Set in Stone is a zine that explores and explains the various symbols that can be found on gravestones! I'm very fascinated in the way humans conceptualize death and send their loved ones into the great beyond.
Set in Stone was circulated by Zine-o-Matic, a monthly zine subscription service.
Set in Stone was circulated by Zine-o-Matic, a monthly zine subscription service.