Saturday Morning Cartoons: Identity

Welcome to Saturday Morning Cartoons, a segment where four artists take turns delighting you with their whimsy, facts and punchlines on Saturday mornings! Our esteemed cartoon critters are Cameron Glavin, Anna Bongiovanni, Megan Praz and Yao Xiao. Today’s cartoon is by Anna!

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Archie

I'm a cartoonist living in Minneapolis. Co-Author and artist of A Quick And Easy Guide To They/Them Pronouns. Author of Grease Bats, coming out Fall 2019 with Boom! Studios! If I'm not working I'm socializing. If I'm not out with friends I'm drawing. If I'm not doing any of those things I'm probably depressed. Support me using Patreon.

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    • alaina i was seriously thinking the exact same thing when i read taylors bio. i was like “inspired by alaina monts?” hahahaha

  2. Loved it!

    But I read ‘pa’ instead of ‘pal’ and was quite amazed to see Gwens young-looking father being in grad school asking people about identity. Must read a bit closer next time!

  5. Love the tag yourself section :p I’m half Taylor but mostly Scout. Side note, someone bring me a burrito.

  7. I’m a Taylor/Ari mashup:

    -Stands awkwardly in the back at parties, analyzing everyone
    -More into bookshelves than beer pong
    -Quietly sassy – so quietly nobody hears me

    • For a moment I thought about making a buzzed-like quiz, something clickable, but then was like WHY am I making life more difficult for myself?? Maybe someday!

  12. I am one hundred percent Taylor, like I’ve had this exact conversation albeit at a finals-are-over party

    • As someone who spends most of their time with these 2-D illustrations and spends a lot of time thinking and daydreaming about them and basically has some sort of relationship with all of them, THIS IS A TOTALLY NORMAL THING DON’T WORRY.

      • Do you hate brunch because you think it’s 10am fancy clothes and fancy day old food?

        Because it doesn’t have to be.

        Brunch can be at 2 in the afternoon scrambled eggs, pancakes and steak tips at IHOP.
        Brunch can be pizza at 10:30am.
        So many things brunch can be.

        • I hate brunch because I need to eat IMMEDIATELY UPON WAKING (which I do in the morning, at Normal Breakfast Time) and can’t day drink in any capacity without getting a monster headache

          If I don’t eat immediately upon waking, my Adderall hits, and by brunch time there is nothing I want to do less than sit around and watch a bunch of meat eaters freak out over eggs and bacon / pay someone to make them literally the easiest to make foods

          • Okay but how do you feel about pancakes, waffles or pain perdu for lunch?
            That is actually all I want to know and care about.

          • How is it that I studied French for 18 years and have a degree in French and used to teach French immersion and live in a country where French is one of the official languages and I didn’t know until just now that “pain perdu” is the French word for French toast?

        • I also hate brunch because I eat fast and dislike eye contact (sitting across from someone at a restaurant = what do with eyes??) and I also hate loud places and also ALSO hate over-eating

          Everything about brunch is the awful worst, The End

          • I feel like this is a great recipe for having a lovely Anti-Brunch: only hard-to-make complicated food (Hollandaise sauce?), nice and quiet and possibly in lovely solitude, no booze required, just the right amount and timing of food.

      • IN SUM:

        @chandra yeah because its bread you would toss! Lost (To Stale-ness) Bread

        I like breakfast foods in morning and I like breakfast foods at night but I don’t like them around noon

        I’m vegan so over half of brunch is just stuff I can’t eat

        Lunch is peak Adderall time, so I usually eat a piece of toast with jam or peanut butter; eating in the middle of the day just isn’t my thing

  16. “I identify as a cis queer femme who will make out with basically anyone” … I FEEL SO UNDERSTOOD

  17. Andy always and forever. black, genderqueer, and great with moms. sleeves are the only thing that can bring me down. and my tender tender heart.

  19. I am the weirdest combination of Scout and Gwen. I also drinks Cosmos unironically, have contagious enthusiasm, and know how to accessorize, but am also FEELINGS 24/7, a total lightweight, and a burrito addict.

  20. I’m definitely a Scout, minus the can’t hold their liquor part as I can hold my liquor quiet well thank you. I do also drinks cosmos un-ironically from time to time.

  22. I’ve been laughing at that panel where Andy says “also I think we should hang out some more” for like 10 minutes omg all of their faces

    • YESSSSSssssss I feel like there are so many train wreck situations that are going to come from this friendship!

  23. I am a Scout-Ari-Taylor: all the feelings, some of the bike grease; bookshelf-ogling, awkwardly geeky, quietly sassy proud introvert. I just wish I shared Scout’s ability to look awesome in tacky snap backs

  24. I love everything going on here <3 I already said on Twitter, but I am so so so Ari!!! with a bit (a lot) of Scout's insecurity and general nervousness about dating/flirting. They are my two favorite characters so I'm happy with that!

    • yuuuuup, tho also i want to look at all the bookshelves and be quietly sassy. just need a good gwen to date hahaha

      • but also i need to be friends with taylors because it is very important to me that people admire my bookshelves i do not have such great taste in books for no one to notice you know!

  29. I am a mix between Gwen and Taylor- it IS possible. This was a really good one- kudos!

  31. I’m pretty much solidly Scout but swapping out bike grease with river grime. But also definitely a bit of Taylor mixed in as well.

  32. I think I mostly identify as “none of your (fucking) business” with a side of “crying in public bathrooms” “100% monogamous” and “awkward at parties – so Ari / Scout / Taylor

  33. Gah, I love this. TAYLOR right here.
    I moved in January and judge myself for the paucity of books I now own…

    Keep doing the awesome work you do, makes my month!

  34. Lol @ the person who got so upset at a friendly inquiry about their dislike of brunch ahahaha! I love us queer folk but damn do we ever catch extreme feelings about things quickly.

  37. Love this comic strip. I’m a Scout-Taylor combo, replacing bike grease with flour. Not sure it’s sexy though…

  38. Basically entirely a Taylor without the excuse of grad school. Always wished I were an ari, always have crushes on ari-types, and in fact my wife is so definitely an ari.

  39. I’m definitely a Taylor, grad school and all, that could be an Ari if I could get out of my head. I have an entire shelf of queer and feminist theory, but zero theories on my own actual identity.

  41. I feel like a combo between Ari and Taylor. Quiet, in grad school, awkward at parties, loves brunch. My name is literally Ariel Taylor, so it fits.

  42. I’m somewhere between Scout and Taylor. Total awkward bookworm, but love getting my hands dirty. Along with all the feels, “slight” burrito addiction, and not holding my booze.

    Great comic! :-D

  43. I have Scout’s constant feelings-fest and Taylor’s constant analysis, paired with Andy impulses that come out when I let my guard down and relax.

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