In stunning colored pencil, Mattes drops a reader squarely into this phantasmagoric anti-memoir which chews and spits out conventions of trans trauma narratives and acceptable boundaries of obsession.
In part one of eight, a special site in Minneapolis becomes a portal which transports Strong into Ezra’s memory, where he re-enacts a horrifying event.
Playful and strange, tactile and tender, this comic earned Mattes the Athenaeum Comic Art Spring 2023 microgrant for early career cartoonists.
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