Between You and Me: Transitional Comics

Between You and Me: Transitional Comics is a collection of comics that reflects two transitions—from a person who doesn’t draw to a cartoonist and from a butch lesbian to a transgender dude. I stopped drawing when I was a kid and didn’t start drawing again until I was 33 years old and brave enough to take my first course with cartoonist Lynda Barry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was through the experience of drawing myself in the world on the page that allowed me to draw myself out into the world, to realize that I am transgender and that I wanted to transition. The comics in Between You and Me reflect the experiences of a transgender and transitioning person navigating daily life and observing the world around him. The book concludes with a dialogue between me and Lynda, a conversation between student and teacher about gender and drawing and discovery and growing up and everything in between! NOTE! I will sign all copies of the book—if you want me to sign it to someone specifically, leave me a note on the checkout page.