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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.
Webcomics

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 Maya have a heart to heart.

Emma Rust September 26, 2020 2 Comments
A black & white image of a roaring dragon figurine posed amidst some game dice floats in the midst of a background of shapes & lines in the bi flag colors. In the upper left hand corner, a text box reads AUTOSTRADDLE BI+ WEEK 2020
Geekery

Dungeons & Dragons: A Great Place to Be Queer

When we’re open to it, giving ourselves honest space to roleplay can be pretty powerful stuff.

Melissa Lusk September 19, 2020 18 Comments
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!"
Webcomics

Grease Bats: Bath Time

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

Archie September 19, 2020 11 Comments
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.
Webcomics

Pandemic Dating

Dating looks different now.

Sarah Mirk September 16, 2020 4 Comments
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,"
Webcomics

Baopu #77: Internal Soundtrack

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

Yao Xiao September 12, 2020 2 Comments
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."
Webcomics

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 September 9, 2020 9 Comments
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.
Webcomics

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 September 5, 2020 7 Comments
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.
Webcomics

The Lakeview Crew #6: Reunion

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

Emma Rust August 29, 2020 5 Comments
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.
Webcomics

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 August 26, 2020 6 Comments
Two panels of the Grease Bat comic. Panel 1: Ari and Gwen are both wearing masks. Gwen is midsentence: "...the birds, flowers, you and all our friends, champagne, W.A.P. and my magic wand!" Panel 2: Gwen: "And THAT concludes my gratitude list!"
Webcomics

Grease Bats: Gratitude

“What’s the point of podding if I can’t fix your unhappiness?”

Archie August 22, 2020 4 Comments
A cartoon of two friends sit on a park bench. One has short red hair and a pointy hat. The other has jet black hair to their shoulders and green jacket. The friend with the black hair says "WE are both lost and I can't be the one to help you."
Webcomics

Baopu #76: Lost, With Directions

I’m searching for the right person who can help me go through all this confusion.

Yao Xiao August 15, 2020 5 Comments
A hand drawn cartoon of three friends, split into three panels, where two Black friends joke with their non-Black friend about how nervous people get when Black people joke about race.
Webcomics

Foolish Child #78: We Got Jokes

“You know I can’t tell when you’re making Black people jokes!”

Dickens August 12, 2020 19 Comments
A hand drawn cartoon of fictional, hot summer week in Portland. The sketches are black and white against a peachy-pink background. One queer partner complains to their other about having to serve a customer at their restaurant who refuses to wear a mask. The temperature outside is 97 degrees. It's HOT and the sun blazes.
Webcomics

Reine #11: Heat Wave

One hot, queer week in the summer of 2020. From face masks, to protests, to cats sleeping on ice packs to beat the heat.

Ren Strapp August 8, 2020 7 Comments
Cartoon of the artist, Dickens, discussing Black Lives Matter with two white strangers. The first white stranger makes a joke that the Black t-shirt she's wearing with Black Lives Matter on it is "so slimming" the second stranger erroneously compares statistics of white vs. Black victims of police brutality.
Webcomics

Foolish Child #77: Black Lives Matter Isn’t a Trend

What’s the point in arguing with a world that will always devalue Black skin?

Dickens July 29, 2020 9 Comments
Webcomics

Grease Bats: TikTok Goals

“Obviously I’m joining #FEMMEARMY”

Archie July 25, 2020 9 Comments
Webcomics

Baopu #75: Hitting a Wall

A surreal exploration of tackling a mental road block. The other side might be a very different perspective.

Yao Xiao July 18, 2020 3 Comments
Webcomics

Foolish Child #76: You Don’t Need to Justify Your Grief

“What right do I have to feel grief over this? It’s not my loss.”

Dickens July 15, 2020 8 Comments
Webcomics

Reine #10: Building A Kinder World

We are going to build a kinder, safer world.

Ren Strapp July 11, 2020 10 Comments
Geekery

“The Last of Us Part II” and the Never Ending Endings of Endlessness

I did my best to not let my lurking paranoia get in the way of being happy during certain portions of the game but it was an ever present feeling. Even now, having finished the game, it is still there. The few times I forgot about it I found myself taking comfort in two women deeply in love, in the shit together.

Jessica Vazquez July 9, 2020 23 Comments
Webcomics

The Lakeview Crew #5: Thoughts on “Asians For Black Lives”

Aiden contemplates what it means to identify with the phrase “Asians for Black Lives.”

Emma Rust July 4, 2020 3 Comments
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