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Baopu #133: Every Goodbye Is Temporary

A departure can feel like any other day, but it marks a new beginning. Soon, it’s time to meet again.

Yao Xiao

Mar 22, 2025

In a black and white, two-panel comic, Max calls Maya on the phone. Max has short cut curly hair and layered shirts. It's been a hard week — with zoom calls getting the best of them, fires causing environmental distress to their home, and the mourning of Breonna Taylor. More than anything, they just need a friend.

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The Lakeview Crew #7: Hold All The Feels

Sometimes you just need to call your friends, breath together, and feel all the feels. Maya may not always be the best listener, but after a hard week, Max and…

Emma Rust

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Sep 26, 2020

A hand drawn two panel comic. In the first panel Andy is on Zoom via the computer and says "It's happening!" In the second panel another member of the Grease Bats crew is revealed to be in the bathtub, watching Andy on the computer, and says "This is weird!"

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Grease Bats: Bath Time

“We’re warm, we’re drinking and best of all we’re naked!”

Archie

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Sep 19, 2020

An illustration of two people on a social distance date outside. Both are wearing masks and sitting 6 feet apart, and one is holding the leash of a cute dog.

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Pandemic Dating

Dating looks different now.

Sarah Mirk

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Sep 16, 2020

Yao, with a a short red hair cut and stars in their eyes, is drawn in front of a yellow background that says "You can do it," "Don't Stop,"

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Baopu #77: Internal Soundtrack

Finding the soundtracks that have been there all along, making room for new sounds.

Yao Xiao

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Sep 12, 2020

In a two panel comic, Dickens child asks if they can play outside again, to which they respond that it is "105 degrees and raining ash in California." In the second panel, Dickens and their partner stand outside and watch the orange skies of Northern California. Their partner says "The movies always made the apocalypse seem... obvious. This is just... Wednesday."

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Foolish Child #80: It Never Ends

Well yes. It turns out the apocalypse creeps on you slowly, starting oh — in about March 2020, who would’ve guessed?

Dickens

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Sep 9, 2020

A single drawn panel of two queers drinking an ice cold can of seltzer water. They both have short hair cuts and are wearing tank tops — one of them has their hair dyed blue. They are in front of a pink and cream background.

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Reine #12: Take A Sip, Babes

Are you a “finish your seltzer” gay? Or a “let your seltzer get flat & warm and make your partner finish it for you” gay?

Ren Strapp

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Sep 5, 2020

In a two-panel black & white comic, a friend comes to the door to tell Celeste that prisons have been abolished and that means her mom is coming home. Celeste cries.

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The Lakeview Crew #6: Reunion

In an abolitionist dream of the future, Celeste is reunited with her formerly incarcerated mom.

Emma Rust

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Aug 29, 2020

Two Panels from this weeks "Foolish Child" in which Dickens decides to go outside to get a break from racist comments online, only to run into a a racist white man in real life who parodies the same comments found online.

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Foolish Child #79: Comply

“I really don’t need to be in my house simmering over the racist comments on violence against Black people.”

Dickens

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Aug 26, 2020

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Baopu #133: Every Goodbye Is Temporary

The Lakeview Crew #7: Hold All The Feels

Grease Bats: Bath Time

Pandemic Dating

Baopu #77: Internal Soundtrack

Foolish Child #80: It Never Ends

Reine #12: Take A Sip, Babes

The Lakeview Crew #6: Reunion

Foolish Child #79: Comply

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