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Announcing: a new book!

Positive Worlds; Negative Spaces is a selection of my comics and illustrations from 2010-2024! 126 pages of full-colour goodness on heavy, beautiful paper, in A4 size.

It includes excerpts from my long comics, including a dream sequence from Part 2 of 14 Nights, and chapter 2 of Alethia printed in A4 (Alethia was only printed in A5 before).

Shinjuku Boys (1995). Tatsu, a transgender man, jokes with his barber about his changing appearance, and his newly masculine features.

TRANSCRIPT:

BARBER: So you go regularly to the hospital for your hormone injection? TATSU: [nods] BARBER: Does it hurt? TATSU: Not at all. BARBER: You have more facial hair. It must be the hormones. You’ll get a moustache soon. TATSU: I’ll look distinguished! They’ve made quite the difference. I never thought I’d change so much. Most customers say I’m like a man. BARBER: Really? TATSU: [laughing] They say, “You look like a man. You’re not cute.” BARBER: [laughs]

(cws for these pages: anti-fat dialogue, implied disordered eating)

Primrose Van der Peer, an operatic contralto, has only played men onstage. Her debut as a leading lady should feel monumental, an invitation to the femininity she’s always been denied, but instead the role seems to haunt her, even when she’s not performing.

Described as beautiful, gut wrenching, and visceral, Délicatesse is a story about perception, performance, and trying to be a good woman - even if you’re not sure you’re one at all.

Here are the first 8 pages of my 32 page opera comic! You can buy it HERE, or subscribe to my patreon at any tier to gain access to the final .pdf, as well as a months long backlog of process.