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A yellow background with a queer person in a beanie playing with a whole bunch of cats. The queer person says, "PARTY TIME!"
Webcomics

Reine #41: Holigay Traditions for 2022

End of the year togetherness and late stage capitalism and cats. And maybe a fire extinguisher.

Ren Strapp November 26, 2022 4 Comments
In a two panel comic with a watercolor pink background, there is a orange jack-o-latern head that says "I haven't cried for a long time" and the one next to it shows Baopu in close up, their hands are covering their face, and it reads "There's too much to process"
Webcomics

Baopu #105: A Good Cry

As an act of healing together, a good cry allows for releasing of tensions in our bodies.

Yao Xiao November 5, 2022 9 Comments
In a three panel comic the colors of dark and light peach and also turquoise, it says "Geese" in bold letters. Beneath it are two Black people, one person asks the other what type of bird they are looking at. The answer is "Geese." The first person asks, how can you tell?
Webcomics

Reine #40: Geese

When you move from the south to the north, you learn a lot about the changing of the seasons.

Ren Strapp October 29, 2022 3 Comments
Yao is a cartoon image of an Asian person with red hair who is writing thought bubbles on top of an abstract black and yellow background: "can anyone hear?" and "I'm here"
Webcomics

Baopu #104: Diaspora Time

What is diaspora time? It is a third plane between here and there, where time and geographies meet when people say they don’t.

Yao Xiao October 8, 2022 1 Comment
In a two panel comic, colored in shades of blue and white: A drawing of a Carabiner with keys on it, alongside the following text: AH, THE RING OF . I. *KEYS$: CLASSICI ICONIC!! DYKEY AS HELL !!!
Webcomics

Reine #39: Carabiner – A Love Letter

I’m in love with function, utility, and cool clangy sound effects.

Ren Strapp October 1, 2022 17 Comments
A drawing of a multiple layer black circle, with the following lettering in blue: creating so many different kinds of art. Falling into the black swirls are two stick figures.
Webcomics

Baopu #103: Where I’m Going We Are Together

Preserving the community we have now, and meeting community in the future, through art-making.

Yao Xiao September 10, 2022 8 Comments
A Black cat is drawn in front of a blush pink circle, an arrow points to the cat and the text says: "DOESN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT HER HUGE LESBIAN FAMILY"
Webcomics

Reine #38: Takes a Village

In the next life, may I be a lesbian couple’s cat.

Ren Strapp September 3, 2022 7 Comments
A two panel comic, left to right: "Make a Whole New Body of Work" is written on top of a yellow background in front of a on old school typewriter (t's red) and hands typing, then "Relaxing all day long like a beautiful cloud" is written in a blue sky full of cloud imagery
Webcomics

Baopu #102: What Did I Do This Summer?

While it is easy to lament the things we didn’t do this summer, it is important to account for what we did!

Yao Xiao August 13, 2022 2 Comments
Webcomics

Reine #37: Unrestrained Summer Fun

There’s more to life than work. Fight for the four day work week, paid vacation, flexible hours! Get out there!

Ren Strapp August 6, 2022 4 Comments
Against a lavender background is a a faint outline of letter B, bursting beyond the seams of that outline are a variety of different Black people, clockwisee: A young Black child holding up a rainbow Equality sign, a black couple one with short black hair and light skin and one with blonde hair and a small child, a black person in shirt with the trans Pride flag, T'Challa from Black Panther, a young black girl with braids and a turquoise t-shirt, a young light skin black child with red hair playing a video game, a Black woman singer, a Black child with glasses graduating, and a Black woman with a blonde bun wearing glasses.
Webcomics

Foolish Child #123: Black Lives Thriving

That’s it.

Dickens July 30, 2022 5 Comments
A drawing of Yao (an Asian person with red hair and a pointy black hat) using a green watering can to water a large lower with pink petals against a blue sky.
Webcomics

Baopu #101: Effortlessly High Expectations

How do you balance effort and expectations? You gotta meet yourself half way… or not.

Yao Xiao July 16, 2022 3 Comments
In a two panel comic with an ombre background reaching from pink through gold and into green, Dickens is excited because they have a package with their new butter warmer — just delivered. Their friend Sarai asks, "Butter warmer?"
Webcomics

Foolish Child #122: Butter Warmer

“Is that like a wink-wink butter warmer from a catalog of ‘discreetly shipped’ adult play-things?”

Dickens July 14, 2022 5 Comments
Against a light blue background, two friends try to work out their pronouns. Both friends are people of color, one has a blue mullet and one has dark curly hair. They celebrate as they try out a "she/sir!"
Webcomics

Reine #36: Figuring It Out

Wake up lads, new lesbian gender just dropped.

Ren Strapp July 9, 2022 15 Comments
Webcomics

Foolish Child #121: A Stands For

ABORTION ACCESS FOR ALL.

Dickens June 29, 2022 2 Comments
Three boxes say: Intellecutalizing (yellow, with Baopu reading a book), Nostalgia (pink, with Baopu looking out unto the grass), and Indulging (blue, with Baopu reaching out with arms stretched). The three boxes are connected by yellow and red bands.
Webcomics

Baopu #100: Processing Intergenerational Trauma, A Chart

Moving through trauma towards creativity through a colorful flowchart with plenty of room for painting, snacking, and dancing.

Yao Xiao June 18, 2022 8 Comments
A portrait hand drawing of a list of things that make Reine happy, all in colors of purple, blue, yellow, green, and pale pink. The title reads "SOME GOOD THINGS:" And goes on to list: THRIFTING, and a GOOD DAY OF WORK.
Webcomics

Reine #35: Some Good Things

Life is too short to always fold your laundry. Sometimes you need to read books in the sunshine instead.

Ren Strapp June 11, 2022 7 Comments
In a two panel purple and blue comic, Dickens talks with their friend Sarai. Sarai wants to know why the neighbor's front yard "looks like the Capitol Building on January 6th" and Dickens responds, "that woman is lost to the dark side."
Webcomics

Foolish Child #120: The Neighbors

In a special SATURDAY edition of Foolish Child, “Literally all I heard you say is that we live next-door to TWO white supremacists and now we have to move.”

Dickens May 28, 2022 1 Comment
A cartoon drawing of Yao, who has red short hair in a pixie cut, a purple shirt and pointy purple hat, and cream scarf, laying on the grass with their cat. They are thinking in a thought bubble.
Webcomics

Baopu #99: It’s Never Over

Caught in an emotional limbo by the pandemic, acknowledging the present and moving on is never easy.

Yao Xiao May 21, 2022 9 Comments
In blue and coral pastels, a two panel comic. In one two queers are loading a U-Haul while yelling at each other, in another, once moved in, the two queers eat a piece of pizza.
Webcomics

Reine #34: Moving Season

The amount of packing and U-Hauling that has been done in the past few months… Lesbians on the move!!

Ren Strapp May 14, 2022 3 Comments
In a two panel comic with a gradient purple to blue background, Sarai points out to Dickens that last week was Lesbian Visibility Week and they didn't celebrate. Dickens responds that they got new glasses. Sarai and Dickens are both black comic characters.
Webcomics

Foolish Child #119: Lesbian Visibility

“You know that very married woman was not flirting with you, right?”

Dickens May 4, 2022 4 Comments
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