Kevin Thomas was born in Southern California and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. His work has appeared in NOON, LA Review of Books, and Barrelhouse magazine and on OccupyWriters.com. His first book, a collection of the first three years of these strips, is available from OR Books. Sometimes he overshares on Twitter.
Yamashita evokes the time of displacement, the dust, Christian charity and Christian racism, the problematics of documenting struggle, and the importance of art, laughter, and waffles.