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Our latest Kickstarter has LAUNCHED! “As The Crow Flies” by Melanie Gillman is now on Kickstarter!

Camp Three Peaks is a rustic, Christian summer retreat for teenage girls! A week of hiking, adventure, and communing with the God of its 19th-century founders… a God that doesn’t traditionally number people like 13-year-old Charlie Lamonte among His (Her? Their? Its?) flock.

The only black camper in the group, and queer besides, she struggles to reconcile the innocent intent of the trip with the blinkered obliviousness of those determined to keep the Three Peaks tradition going. As the journey wears on and the rhetoric wears thin, Charlie can’t help but poke holes in the pious disregard this storied sanctuary has for outsiders like herself—and her fellow camper, Sydney.

AtCF creator Melanie Gillman is Eisner, Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize and Autostraddle Award-nominated, and can be found on tumblr at @pigeonbits. Please support them and Iron Circus by backing the project, reblogging this post, and spreading the work about their work! We have 30 days to make goal, and a long way to go!

Someone call a doctor, because doing this painting killed my hands. Good gravy. That foliage. HOWEVER. Finally, with some help and encouragement I managed to get through it. Special thanks to my fiance for carrying me through and not letting me die in a deep, deep sea of despair  :D