Sprits, Hungover at Work
2023

This limited run zine was created in the fall of 2023 for some expos I was doing that year. It is a small test scene for a future graphic novel that will probably be called Rachel the Bunny. I wanted to see some chemistry on the page between two characters.

The scene takes place as one hungover barista is opening her cafe and getting lightly bullied by the spirit of an old drag persona angry that the barista stopped performing as her when she transitioned. The barista is asking the ghost of the jilted persona what it was like to be summoned into existence by someone’s imagination because of a Grindr chat she had the night before. She is also concerned for the feelings of another jilted persona deep in her past; in her childhood that she created to deal with childhood dysphoria.

I wrote the scene initially at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in the spring of 2023 during the first ever comic arts program there.

Enjoy, Spirits Hungover at Work, in its entirety here: