Dear friends,
This February 14th I had a date. Actually, more than a date. I had a bae. She took me out for Italian, and I stuffed myself full of fancy meatballs, pasta and tiramisu. Though to be honest, I thought I could make better, but when I told my bae this, she hinted that I probably shouldn’t dunk on someone else taking me out. Oops. I used to think things like this made me an insufferable date, but now I just roll with the fact that I sometimes am an awkward human and it’s … fine. I’m beginning to realize so many things I overthink on are non-issues that feel a lot less bad once you stop stewing in what you perceive to be failures of you as a person, rather than just a byproduct of living your life and not being in control of every interaction.
So in the spirit of NBD, I'm gonna share with you a few pages from several different comics I’ve made about past romantic feelings. They were mostly made in order to cope with having said feelings, all under the pretence that I wasn't the embarrassingly turbo-charged love junkie I really am.
Given how influential romance is to my work though, going forward, I'm definitely more desiring to take a more proactive, joyful approach; meaning: a rivals to lovers graphic novel with the shameless happy ending is a must-do on my agenda. Gotta celebrate my interests and make time for the fact that I really love love, especially the cheesy YA variety.
💖chu
11,22 is the embarkment of a new outlet of expression. Also speaking of YA romcoms, if you have any recommendations of such, please always send them my way.