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DK's avatar

Thank you so much for coming to France! I was really happy to be able to "meet" both of you irl (honestly i was not expecting any of you two to ever do signings in France :')), and I hope you enjoyed your time here.

Take care of yourselves, I hope you're ok now even if things are scary back in the US - and again, thanks to both of you for your art. As a queer person in those scary times, your work really brings me comfort and hope, and a desire to create and tell queer stories myself. I feel like I lack the ability to properly express this in English (and maybe even in French?), but queer art is so, so important and it really is something that helps me keep going even when everything else feels dark.

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Goyavoyage's avatar

Same here, belatedly. The joy of going to your signing together with DK and meeting you both was so strong, even as I had been sick the day prior and had to catch a train to Lyon on the day of your signing and be there with a face mask - none of that could deter me.

Thank you for what the both of you have been doing all these years. Your art means a lot, and these words feel too small. It was also simply oddly surrealist to be meeting you in France!! and realize a little more that you're actual, real people. You told us when we briefly met, too, about your will to go back to the US and fight back, about this feeling of being away for too long - and it felt so meaningful to hear. It's just as meaningful to see it written here.

Thank you for everything. I hope you take care.

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Lima's avatar

I have been following your substack for quite a while (and hourlies before that!) And only just taken a moment to realize that I could like and comment on this thing....your comics are a wonderful bright spot amongst work emails and bargain codes and they never fail to brighten my day. Thank you, seriously.

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Max's avatar

Yay testosterone!!!

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Hugo Reed's avatar

It's always so lovely reading these, it makes me feel so much less alone in how horrible everything is in America right now. It's nice to have older queer people to look up to, especially ones as awesome as you guys! I've been reading you and Nate's books since I was a kid, Nimona being one of the reasons I was able to figure out who I am (a chaotic shapeshifter, obviously) my copies of Nimona and the Witch Boy are literally falling to pieces because of how much I've read them and leant them out. I've never been able to make it to a book signing, I live in a place nobody really comes for such things, and being a broke college student I have little money for travel, but I hope to be able to meet you guys some day, and get my books signed! Hope you're doing okay in this failing nation, thaw care of yourselves!

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Emily's avatar

Really loved your update about this comic conference in France! Wonderful tattoo. Yay for goo! <3 Thanks for all you do. *all the hugs*

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Lau Ra's avatar

I really love your telling about all of these moments in such a sweet, funny and touching way. Ah: And Lutin is more « imp » like santa’s elf. I know it’s a struggle to translate cause I have a theater troupe that’s called Les Ptites Lutines :) And The Elf/Elves of the Lord of the Rings are called elfes in french too.

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Anne Worth's avatar

That was delightful to read, I did laugh at the wrong party! But also it is a sad time here in the US. I hope for better times ahead, some day.

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River's avatar

Just curious, why have you started testosterone?

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Molly Knox Ostertag's avatar

Because I wanted all the effects :)

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Indoor Kitty's avatar

You could say... BUTTERFLY EFFECTS. :D

...I'll see myself out.

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River's avatar

Would love to see more comics about your testosterone journey!

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Matte's avatar

congrats! hormones rock :)

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kaixokkiten's avatar

Just wondering, going forward, do you and Nate both prefer "husband" and he/him pronouns now to "wife"?

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kaixokkiten's avatar

Also, congrats on starting T!

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Cameron's avatar

Do you think you’ll move to France?

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Emiliano CORSO Bonaccorso's avatar

I have an indelible memory of my visit to angouleme way back in 2014. So I presented my work, and I collected notes... I met many people full of dreams and joy... I hope everything they wanted came true... and I'm working to make it happen to me too!

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