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An isolated biracial queer girl in New Bedford befriends a pilot whale. The style was meant to be sort of a vapor-wave aesthetic, but it was challenging to nail without color. Sunny, the writer, and I took a visit to their hometown of New Bedford to do research — I took a lot of reference photographs. As a result, I spent a lot of time drawing the backgrounds, which was a struggle for me.

Strange Waters, published by Arledge Comics, is "a queer fantasy comic anthology by queer creators surrounding a single, polarizing theme: water!”

Story: Sunny Ôchumuk | Art: Shaina Lu

Published in Strange Waters, Arledge Comics. 2020. Order here.