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Join NOW!There is an abundance of sadness on the Internet about how hard it is to be an artist, a writer, a cartoonist, a woman, queer, a person of color, etc. I understand that people want to express their frustration, but as a person who is all of these things and more, it can get really […]
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They removed her body, but they couldn’t remove the memory of her smell.
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“When I was seventeen I was sporadicaly employed, out of school, aimless…”
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“It’s this guy guy again. I kind of want to give him money…”
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“1989. I thought I was so tough. I was sixteen. I quit school. My ex-boyfriend was in jail.”
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A Rumpus Comic from Mari Naomi about a relationship going to shit above a quiet, albeit invasive, literary neighbor:
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Alison Bechdel is a living legend (and I say this from the point of view of a queerish autobio cartoonist).
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