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Comic page done in warm yellows, browns and purples with black line art. Panel one, a close up shot of two café coffee cups with one showing the title “Dads” handwritten on the cup and “by Michelle Parker and Jey Pawlik” written on the other. Panel two, a large establishing panel showing the inside of a café. Four people are standing around a table and taking their coats off to sit down. They’re wearing masks. Panel three, a wide panel of a medium shot of the four friends sitting down together. They’re taking their masks off. From right to left; Gabe is a black cis man with short curly hair, he has a medium sized build and is wearing a red long sleeve top. Quinn is a nonbinary Jewish person with short grey curly hair and large glasses, they are wearing a light blue button up shirt. Chloe is a black cis woman with very short cropped hair and a thicker build, she is wearing a green jean jacket. Millie is a chubby white cis woman with long wavey brown hair and is wearing a cute white blouse with a dainty gold necklace. Quinn looks at everyone happily and says “Okay, let’s start out ‘it’s been two years and I’m nervous about visiting my family again' unofficial therapy/gripe session!” The story takes place in 2021 and covid regulations are just starting to ease up.

Compassion: Dads – 1

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Something a bit different today, Max and I were invited to this anthology back in 2021 Queer Compassion in 15 Comics and now that the book is out, we’re finally able to share what we did for it! We’re both very proud of it..

Our comic was 8 pages so I’ll be scheduling one per week on Tuesdays to give us a bit of a buffer so we can get some new Darumaka comics ready for y’all! Usually we take May off from posting but somehow we powered through and now we’re pretty spent!

About the comic:

This anthology was a bit different from most others we’ve been in, as we needed to pick a theme provided by the editors and use interviews to form that into a story. The theme we chose was “Dads”.

All characters in this comic are fictional and their stories are only inspired by interviews that were given to us by the editors. We were not given any information about the interviewees.

“These comics are created by queer artists for queer audiences and with the intent for queer self-expression and representation. Social science researchers spoke to diverse members of LGBTQ+ communities to explore their beliefs about and experiences of compassion.” – Phillip Joy

“Working from interviews was a very different starting point than how we typically create comics, and we really wanted to make sure that we stayed true to the stories that were passed on to us. Having a theme of compassion and seeing the interview responses connected with something that both of us experienced as queer people. Though it is certainly and thankfully not the case for everyone, but a common theme in the interviews was the way queer people try and connect with their homophobic parents. When we consider parent/child relationships a lot of time is spent on the parent’s unconditional love for their child, but a recurring theme in the stories of queer people is the continued desire to reconnect and love parents who are dismissive or antagonistic to their child’s sexuality. We hope that this comic expresses to the reader how much queer people love their parents, and the compassion they have where they try and connect however they can, even when those relationships hurt.” – Max Parker

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