Tiny accordion zine from 2016.
3 PACK COMICS
3 Packs of mini comics made for Euzine Fest 2018.
PACK #1
1. People Ask Me "Why Do You Like Dogs?"
2. On the Plane Home from St. Paul
3. I Miss the Harris Alley House
PACK #2
1. Even Today
2. My First House
3. I Think I Know Who I Am
Selfies (and other faces)
Why Do You Like Dogs? (from 3 PACK COMICS #1)
Mini-comic about identity and my new least favorite question, "Why do you like dogs?" (From 3 PACK COMICS #1)
WOOF.
Prints from my non-committal inktober adventures.
New Years Resolutions
A collaborative zine with Bram Rickett.
Please Welcome... All-American
My piece for Hyperplum's first show THIS IS US.
People of color always exist in a performative space, either being forced to assume specific mannerisms or change our appearances to reinforce, circumvent, or completely break through stereotypes and expectations surrounding our race. However, in spaces designated for performance, the performer is always under the scrutiny of the audience, making the job of the musician/artist/poet two-fold. They must not only 1) curate their body of work to be relatable content, but must also 2) curate their own image to make that content relatable and easily accessible to the audience. For musicians of color in the indie/rock music scene, (a genre dominated traditionally by white people), navigating these requirements can mean attempting to completely strip certain aspects of POC identity from their work.
For POC, fitting into white spaces on a day-to-day basis is difficult enough. Our inability to control our perceived image in totality often means auditing our behavior to fit in. The pageantry and exploitation of POC in performance spaces is nothing new, and similarly, the entertainment value of musically-inclined animals has been exploited in culture since the day we taught a monkey to clap a cymbal.
A Lonely Road: June and Eli
A Lonely Road: June and Eli (2016) was an experiment in narrative storytelling and Riso Printing. An 8 page comic printed in pink and cornflower blue, it follows June and Eli and their unsuccessful recovery of unnamed documents from an abandoned lab.
With the help of my instructor Isami Ching and the A&AA's sketchy old Riso, I printed 25 copies of A Lonely Road to distribute to my classmates.
