The Stories We Tell

on optimism, and hopelessness, and fear

Lately I’ve been doing interviews for my new book, and I keep getting some variation of the same question: How do you stay hopeful?

I’ve been answering honestly by saying that sometimes I don’t feel very hopeful! Sometimes I feel really sad about everything going on around me and how impossible it all feels. I know that nothing is gained by giving up, so I certainly don’t intend to do that, but this is a comic about those dark feelings: about the fear, the hopelessness, the worry that underneath everything the real problem might be that people are just getting meaner.

If you sometimes feel lost in the hopelessness, you’re not alone! But I hope you won’t let the fear stop you. <3

Thanks for reading! If you liked this comic and want to read more like it, you can pre-order my book, GRAPHIC RAGE: Comics on Gender, Justice, and Life as a Woman in America!