In a two panel hand-drawn comic, Dickens' next-door-neighbor comes over to ask if Dickens has a plan to vote. Dickens quickly shhhhs them, because they are afraid someone else is listening in.

Foolish Child #83: Election Anxiety

One can never be too careful in 2020…

Feature image showing one of the coloring pages -- a person wearing a thong with a heart shaped tattoo on their butt that says "pervert" -- surrounded by colorful peaches and leaves!

Visual Art

Butt Week Coloring Pages!

Coloring pages of God’s greatest gift to humankind: butts!

A person stands covered from head-to-toe in fluffy white balls, almost like snow, against a pink background.

Geekery Visual Art

Baopu #78: One Day, I May Forget You

Letting go of certain past memories is bittersweet, comical, and inevitable all at the same time.

Dickens and their friends discuss their attraction for a certain child's television star, but who it is remains a mystery... for now.. (Three hand drawn characters of color talking against a green background in a two panel comic)

Geekery Visual Art

Foolish Child #82: It’s the Imaginary Blue Dog for Me

“I know y’all not in here watching Blue’s Clues like it’s porn. Bunch of weirdos.”

Two queer humans sit at home. One of them, a masc cutie with a undercut and their hair in a stubby ponytail, scrolls on their phone. Their partner, a femme in short purple shorts and long black hair, looks at them while worrying over their laundry basket.

Geekery Visual Art

Reine #13: Distraction

I need a distraction from the thing that’s distracting me.

In a two-panel drawn comic, Dickens and a friend sit together on a couch against a green background. The friend asks Dickens, "Can I ask you a highly personal question? Do you consider yourself gay? lesbian? queer?" In response, Dickens jokes "Oh, Thank Helena" in reference to the TV show Warehouse 13.

Geekery Visual Art

Foolish Child #81: Labels

“I don’t know. I can’t keep up with all the rules and definitions and the gatekeep-iness.”

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.

Geekery Visual Art

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.

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,"

Geekery Visual Art

Baopu #77: Internal Soundtrack

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

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."

Geekery Visual Art

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?

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.

Geekery Visual Art

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?

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.

Geekery Visual Art

The Lakeview Crew #6: Reunion

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

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.

Geekery Visual Art

Foolish Child #79: Comply

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

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!"

Geekery Visual Art

Grease Bats: Gratitude

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

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."

Geekery Visual Art

Baopu #76: Lost, With Directions

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

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.

Geekery Visual Art

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.

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.

Geekery Visual Art

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?

Geekery

Grease Bats: TikTok Goals

“Obviously I’m joining #FEMMEARMY”

Geekery

Baopu #75: Hitting a Wall

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

Geekery

Reine #10: Building A Kinder World

We are going to build a kinder, safer world.

Geekery Visual Art

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

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