Cryptic indonesian twin comic makers
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I like making bookmarks 🤓 I just got around to printing a batch of these, eventually I will then tie a neat little ribbon on each of them. I heard the ribbon is popular with cats.
I'll have these on me for a gallery I'm going to in Jogja, along with future bookstore/school visits. Since it's too taxing on my wallet to ship it internationally, people who have these bookmarks can gloat that they've met me in some way 
I'll take new pics once the ribbons are all set up!
As Pride comes to a close, I want to celebrate Lunar Boy and talk about what including explicit queer terms in a middle grade graphic novel means.
This was really difficult to summarize in comic essay form haha. I had done extensive research while I was in school over how middle grade comics often avoid saying words like "gay" "lesbian" or "trans" and its connection with bans and censorship. While I was at school, it felt like Raina Telgemeier's "Drama" was the last time I saw a character say "bi" in a middle grade graphic novel, and that was published in 2012! Why haven't we built more from that bravery since then? So I vowed to make sure Lunar Boy wasn't going to be a kids book that talked around queerness,
As I continued to develop Lunar Boy, I realized how this would affect the larger intersectional context of honoring Indonesian history. And that led to another rabbit hole of pressures! Inter-cultural discourse, the way so many Indonesians don't have access to broader knowledge about our history, it's a lot!
Happy Pride, be nice to each other 🌈
"Each star is beautiful on its own. But when they connect with others, they form something more."
Lunar Boy continues to celebrate Pride with a nod to the Philly Pride flag 🥰 because we're all about that intersectional experience!
This Pride month, Lunar Boy celebrates the closeted and questioning ❤️ Sometimes Pride can feel like a party everyone's celebrating without you, but that's not the case!! So celebrate Pride in your own way.
We also felt that bi and especially pan rep is severely lacking in middle grade graphic novels, so we hope our contribution through Lunar Boy could help combat that 🌈
Do yourself a favor and check out Lunar Boy this Pride month, get yourself something nice!
