Nana Katz by Sarah Maloney

Sarah is a queer visual artists and storyteller.

Family Business by Carly Shooster

Content warning: Abortion, Drug Use, Prison, Violence

Carly is a comics artist based in Gainesville, FL. They have been published in WW3 Illustrated as well as SoMA: Sequential Artists Workshop Student Anthology. Making comics is the hardest thing they love to do.

Time Travel: Don’t Do It! by Peter Glanting

Peter Glanting

Peter’s an illustrator and UX designer. He’s passionate about storytelling and building fun and creative experiences that connect people, on and off screens. He likes sock puppets, and dogs with moustaches.

The Candidacy of Jose Sarria by Justin Hall

Content warning: Discrimination, Homophobia

The Candidacy of José Sarria was originally part of Justin Hall's "Marching Towards Pride" series, created for the San Francisco Arts Commission's "2020 Art on Market Street Poster Series."

Justin Hall is a cartoonist and the creator of the comics series Hard to Swallow (with Dave Davenport), True Travel Tales, and Glamazonia. He has stories in the Houghton Miflin Best American Comics, QU33R, Best Erotic Comics, and the SF Weekly, among others, and has exhibited his art in galleries and museums internationally.

Hall edited the Lambda Literary Award-winning, Eisner-nominated No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, which he’s now producing as a feature-length documentary film. Most recently, he conceived and co-edited the anthology Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers. He curated the world’s first museum show of LGBTQ comics at the S.F. Cartoon Art Museum, as well as co-curated the largest such show at the Schwules Museum in Berlin.

Bio Photo Credit: Shirak Agresta

Reading by Erika Pascual

Erika is a Filipina illustrator and artist based in sunny Hawaii. She enjoys experimenting with various mediums to bring stories and concepts to life. She approaches each and every project with a serious intent to reconcile concept with technique, coupled with a sense of wonder and joy in hopes that it will ignite (or re-ignite) that same spark in whomever comes across it!

The Hidden Sound by Levi

Content warning: Bullying

Levi (They/Them, She/Her) is a multidisciplinary illustrator and cartoonist working with a wide range of media and different software. After studying the BFA Illustration program at the School of Visual Arts in New York, she chose to study at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jianglevi/ Website: https://www.levijiang.com/

Moananuiakea by Kristen Zimmerman

Nainoa Thompson, the Native Hawaiian who navigated the Hōkūle‘a, was trained by Mau Piailug in the art of celestial navigation. Mau or 'Papa Mau' as he was called, was from the island of Satawal in Micronesia, and it was his knowledge which allowed for Native Hawaiians and other members of the Pacific to reclaim this formerly lost skillset. While the Polynesian Voyaging Society is a pride of the Pacific, without Papa Mau's contributions from Micronesia the Hōkūle‘a could never have set sail. Mau Piailug passed on in 2010, but his legacy, and his dream of passing his knowledge on to survive past him has lived on and thrived. For more information, you can check out Na'alehu Anthony's other documentary centered around Mau Piailug, titled, 'Papa Mau'.

A Note by Hinahina Gray

Kristen is a storyteller, community builder, and artist based in Oakland, CA. Her work weaves magic & spirit with memory & nonfiction to create portals that repair intergenerational trauma, reconnect us to ancestral wisdom, and open new possibilities for the future. Her people are the ones who live in the in-between spaces and generate hope.

Life Goes On by Mowen Guo

Mowen Guo is an MFA comic student and illustrator at CCA. Art is always the way he releases his creative thinking. He is chasing the dreams he trusts and trying to go beyond the mediocre life. 

Day to Day by Nicky Rodriguez

Nicky Rodriguez

Nicky (she/her) is a queer Puerto Rican comic artist and flatter. She started out making autobiographical zines exploring mental health, the impermanence of time and memory, and the meaning of home and homesickness in connection to being of the Puerto Rican diaspora. She continues to explore these subjects in her work, looking to find ways in which traditional comic narrative form can be deconstructed through depictions of ephemerality as it relates to emotion, memory, and time.

The River by Kit Fraser

Kit is a cartoonist and illustrator based in New York's Hudson Valley. Her work dabbles in colorful, surrealist spaces and regularly incorporates patterns and semi-fictionalized versions of her dreams and experiences. More of Kit's comics can be seen at: kitfraser.com