TransCat at Q-Con in West Hollywood 2026

 

As "He Is Legend" once proudly proclaimed, "I Am Hollywood!"

No, that is not even remotely true. I am very much not Hollywood at all. I am FAR too Bay Area to be Hollywood. I would have thought that after living in San Fransisco for the past 9 and a half months wold have acclimated me to a city as dense and seedy as Hollywood, but it remains a wholly different beast.

Do I love visiting? Oh, hell yeah, without question.
Could I live there? Not unless i got REAL cool with some shit REAL fast. I'm still getting used to SF as my home.

The show went very well, I think. Aside from some fuckery with the hotel room, the visit went well too! I got some good food, caught up with some old friends, picked up some new books, and even sold a few!

If anything the show was too dang short.
I've seen this lil show balloon in size over the past 4 years. I feel like the next step is extending it to a two day event. Saturday and Sunday. That would rule! I love the drive, don't get me wrong, but it's kinda anticlimactic to arrive Friday and leave Saturday. Give me an excuse to stay one more day! I suppose I COULD just stay one more day on my own? But I feel like I need the excuse. I think I'd be MORE likely to wanna go out, see the town, go clubbin', etc, if that was the schedule I was expecting.
Like Fanime, there's a certain point where the con "closes" and we're all expected to go to our hotel rooms and sleep, but instead we get together and dance and smooch and shit. Even at the end of the day on Saturday, I didn't hear no one even talking about an after party!
It's like, come on, were all gays here, and we're in Hollywood! Our ancestral homeland!
I really think that if it was an overnight stay, people would WANNA party! That's what Q-Con is missing!

One thing Q-Con is NOT missing is friggin' COSPLAYERS! They came out in force that day. I hate to say it, but the cosplay contest kind of DOES take over the space while we (the artists) are trying hard to schmooze and sell our books. And after it's over, it kinda sucks the momentum outta the rest of the con. This is further argument in favour of lengthening the duration of this con. The Cosplay Contest is kind of the crescendo of the whole event. I think it would be a good mid-con event, something to cap off the end of the first day. Then we return the next day and have a more solemn end of ceremonies event on Sunday.

OR! Another idea. The cosplay contest can be the end of the whole thing. I think it wold feel less disruptive if it was the actual endcap of the convention. We wouldn't have to worry about the sudden momentum drop of the convention having an hour left after the biggest event of the day wraps up.

There was generally a very disdainful attitude towards the cosplayers among the artists, which I do not want. We're not in competition. We're just there together. One artist I will not name said they actually hated the cosplayers. Not only because the event is disruptive, but also because they never BUY anything. I dunno man, sounds like a skill issue to me. I got cosplayers buying from me all the time. But I also got this winning personality that seems to sell most of my books FOR me. Hopefully they get them home and read them actually like them, but usually I am just very charming and flirty and it makes people all the more interested in what I make, whether they're in costume or not.

But alas, Q-Con remains only a one day event, and who knows if it can ever expand???
Maybe someday, someone will ask me to lend a hand in the planning and plotting and I can see for myself all the reason two days would never work. OR! I can be the one just crazy enough to pull it off! I got high hopes, ya know?

The drive back was murder but I made it!
I LOVED being back in my own bed again, and having my own toilet and shower.
From now on I will VERY thoroughly research ANY place I book to stay, especially if it's in SoCal.
I am a pretty pretty princess and I deserve ONLY the best! (but I shouldn't have to pay for it).

Stay tuned for more!

TransCat B-Sides Release Event, Fanime, ComicCon, and Other Drama!

 

Good Afternoon TransCat Fans!

SO! The first official TransCat B-sides event has come and gone!
How did it go? And what's coming up next???

First, let us simply address all the elephants that somehow got shoved into this impossibly small room and say this event was DIFFICULT to plan. I don't want to get too into it for the sake of not spreading drama, but I will say simply that I had to seek out a different venue VERY last minute, and I am SO LUCKY that 7 Stars Bar and Grill in Campell was so incredibly willing to step up and take me in when it looked like I was gonna have to cancel entirely.

7 Stars is by far not an environment I am used to for promotional events. I'm used to comic conventions, comic shops, book stores, LGBTQ community centers or events, etc. This is a bar and grill, which is a little out of my element. The angle, however, is that it is a STAR WARS themed bar and grill, so this is definitely a nerd positive environment. 

I am worried that events I do in the future will somewhat fail to measure up to this, because the one thing 7 Stars has that will be very difficult to guarantee anywhere else I go is a nice lil menu of vegan food. They actually have ALL kindsa food, AND drinks, in fact. If you are in the Campbell, CA area any time soon and you're looking for some badass vegan nachos, or banh mi, or meatball subs, THIS is the place!

Plus, the whole place is lined up and down with Star Wars memorabilia of all kinds. Action figures, comics, statues, art prints, as well as some cool props which I can only assume are hand-made. They got a life sized Han in Carbonite sculpture out front with the face cut out, so you can get behind it and get your picture taken. They also got a not QUITE life sized Jabba the Hutt all the way in the back towards the end of the bar. It looks mostly paper mache. 
 

it's pretty skillfully done.

Unfortunately, along with the venue change came a time change as well. The comic shop had a tighter schedule that I was allowed to be there in. 12pm to 4pm. Not sure why it had to be so tight for the but I work with what they give me.
Weirdly enough, this odd timing actually seemed to work out for a lot of my friends and fans, who I guess were free in the early part of the day, but had shit to do in the evening. 7 Stars, however, opened at 4pm, so that was our start time. The good news was we had a LOT more time to schmooze and promote, cuz the bar owners were happy to have us there until closing. Sadly, it meant that a lotta folk who had shit to do in the evening just plain couldn't make it. 
It's okay though, because there WILL be more events! And also, the people who COULD make it had a GREAT time and I'm SO grateful for that. I was surrounded by family and loved ones and comic fans and even strangers who had no idea who I was, but were interested in what I was doing anyway.

At the end of the day it was a wonderful event. I sold a LOTTA the new book, plus some of my old books as well! I actually wound up selling out of my original graphic novel, as well as, really randomly, Issue #8. I guess I just ain't re-ordered that one in awhile.

And at the end of the time, we got karaoke!
Seriously, that's ALL my favourite shit right there.
Comics, vegan food, Star Wars and karaoke!
Could there possibly be an event MORE tailor made towards my specific interests? In the immortal words of Marge Simpsons, I guess we're just going to have to wait and see!

So that was my weekend LAST weekend.

The weekend BEFORE! Hooboy! THAT'S Fanime!

So this was not my first Fanime OUT as a trans woman. It wasn't even my first Fanime outwardly and specifically presenting as a trans woman. But I WILL say the Fanimes prior, I have gone with predominantly straight men. THIS year I went with girls, gay girls, trans girls and non-binary peeps. Before, Fanime was always a 10/10 experience. No complaints. Loved it every year. This year? Hard 11/10. Best ever! More of this, please! 

I have not been to Fanime as an artist in awhile. I do miss it, though, cuz I always did so well every year, but the Artist Alley has gotten harder and harder to get into as the focus of the alley itself has shifted hard into fan art of existing properties and away from original, anime inspired art or stories.
I never understood the selling of fanart, myself. Very seldom have i desired to have a print of someone else's rendition of Goku on my wall. I get why it appeals to people in general, but for me, that's just not WHY I go to the Artist Alley, and it's not the kinda thing I want to have to make to get INTO Artist Alley. I will however say that I DID see more original art than usual this year. I even found a book that seems to be VERY much in the vein of TransCat called Scarlet Star by Da Vin Kim.

https://kimjdav-shop.fourthwall.com/products/scarlet-star-vol-1

The way the author pitched it to me was "A delinquent boy transforms into a magical girl". And you know me, it does NOT take much to sell me with ANY kinda queer content, but this is VERY laser focused at ME and MY interests, so it was an INSTANT buy. It was a LITTLE pricey, not gonna lie, he charged me $45 at the con. LOOKS like I could bought it for $30 on the website, but whatever, I am happy to help this artist pay for their table a lil' faster than usual. Plus, this is 172 pages of content so you're getting your money' worth on this one.
Feels like maybe I should be raising MY prices a lil bit! My first TransCat graphic novel is 192 pages, and B-Sides is 218, and I sell those for $25 each.

I dunno times are tough and maybe raising prices is a natural reaction to that.
but on the other hand, I kinda ALSO want people to hear a number lower than they were expecting, and feel like giving ME that money is not even an action they gotta think too hard about.

These books cost a lil over 10 bucks each to print, so a $15 profit ain't that bad, tbh.
Makes me wonder where Da is getting his books done. They're damn fine quality!

Anyway, long story short, Fanime was rad.

what ELSE is going on in the world of Knave?

Oh!
Remember that come Out And Play anthology I was part of last year?
We've been nominated for an Eisner award!

Outrageous! I know! I have been in this biz for like, 18 years. I've been doing TransCat for 12 of those years! I never in my life imaged I'd be up for such a prestigious award. Granted, it is not SPECIFICALLY TransCat that is nominated, it's TransCat and like, 50 other amazing talented artists as well. Or, if you choose to read it as such, I am riding 50 other artists' FAR more talented coat tails with my silly little cat girl comic. Whatever! This is AMERICA! Benefiting from the hard work of others is practically baked into our culture.

SPEAKING of which!
When I first got the news, it was somewhat bittersweet, cuz while it is an honour to be nominated alongside the likes of DC Comics and Judge Dredd, there was... well... ANOTHER book on that list that really really sank my spirits. You mighta heard of this. "Stardust the Super Wizard". The first book the Eisners have EVER nominated made with AI.

Like I said, I been scrapin' by and payin my dues in this biz for nearly two decades, and there was a part of me that was very hurt to know that I'd finally made it HERE... alongside a fucking BOT!
I had plans to bum rush the stage Kanye West style if the robut won, snatch the mic and make shit REAL WEIRD for EVERYONE in attendance. Yes I more than likely would have been kicked out, MAYBE arrested. But if people are gonna be clappin' for a clanker, their boo's mean nothing at all to me.
But there is good news as well, which you'll notice by observing that Stardust is NOT on the list I just provided. Looks like the backlash against allowing an AI book to even be nominated was enough to make the judges rescind their decision. See? Bullying WORKS! we are safe from AI for at least another year.

So! I'll find out at the end of July if we won or not.
And you know, even if we don't bring it home, I'm STILL throwing a great big party when I get home, because as much of a cliche as it is, it IS an IMMENSE honour to be nominated! That's a badge I can wear with pride for the rest of my days. And even if we DO win, the goal of being nominated for a standalone TransCat book is still on my bucket list. and since AI seems to not being going anywhere no matter WHAT we do, I gotta long road ahead, as an artist who creates using their actual hands.

I'll be keeping you updated, of course.
In the mean time, I still have Q-Con in Hollywood coming up this month.
THAT'S gonna be a big to-do for sure!

Thanks for wading through this wall of text with me!

Just as a reminder, i STILL update my Patreon every week with new WIP art from the upcomming TtansCat issue #13.

https://www.patreon.com/c/TransCat

I've hemorrhaged a lotta patrons this past couple years since the books been on hiatus.
But I am back, the book is back, and I want YOU back!

$1 per month gets you access to ALL of the WIP pages I upload every week.
$5 per month gets you that, plus .PDF's of all of my past issues, PLUS... new issues when they are finished :D

I've also been tinkering with a new free comic I wanna start drawing and uploading every week.
Stay tuned for that too! :3

TRANSCAT AT ILLUSIVE COMICS AND GAMES

We got ANOTHER TransCat event coming up!
If you are in the Bay Area and want a chance to meet the REAL TransCat, come on down to Illusive Comics and Games in Santa Clara May 31st between 12pm and 4pm.

I'll be selling the new graphic novel, plus every other book I've released. I'll be signing autographs and maybe, if I'm lucky, will be doing a reading from the new book.

Come on by, brings you friends, bring your family, but most importantly, BRING MONEY!

The good folk at Illusive Comics have been TransCat supporters since the early days and I cannot thank them enough for hosting me again.

If you CAN'T make it and still wanna support the TransCat Cause, don't forget to support the Patreon.

I am doing my best to revive this long forgotten page with new weekly content.
I know we're in a recession and no one can afford nothin' no more, but I did my best to not only make all my tiers cheap, but include a vast array of free shit too!
Seriously, any engagement helps at this point T^T

Anyway! Hopefully I'll be hopefully making more announcements for events soon! I'm trying like crazy to book more. Maybe I'll come to YOUR area!!!???

Knave at Q-Con 2026

 

There is a city by the sea
A gentle company
I don't suppose you want to
And as it tells its sorry tale
In harrowing detail
Its hollowness will haunt you

Its streets and boulevards
Orphans and oligarchs are here
A plaintive melody
Truncated symphony
An ocean's garbled vomit on the shore
Los Angeles, I'm yours

- The Decemberists

So I'm going back to Q-Con this summer! Hopefully this will be just one of many shows I'm able to schedule this year, but I'll do my best to keep you all in the loop.

If you're in the West Hollywood area, come and see us!
It's a free show and it's wall to wall talented artists.

Hell, If I'm studious, I might be able to finish TransCat #13 by this time ;-)
Pray for me, mortals!

TransCat Comics: Celebrating Twelve Years of (not) Blogging

 

Click the picture to check out the Patreon Post! :)

Happy Saturday Morning, everyone!
Just call me the Queen of Cartoons cuz I got some COMICS for ya!
I'm gonna start making new site updates every time I post on Patreon, see if that helps!

I talk about this a lil' in my blog on the Patreon post but it's behind a paywall so I'll summarize it briefly here.

$1.00/month gets you access to all my WIP's. I'm gonna upload a new one every week.
$5.00/month gets you access to all that, PLUS all my finished work!

As of now, I'll be uploading my brand new draft of TransCat #13, a book that I've been starting and stopping, starting and stopping for over 5 years now.
This WILL be the draft I finish! And YOU can watch it all happen for a dollar a month! That doesn't seem so BAD, DOES it???

The "TransCat's LiveJournal" project is still coming together. Hopefully very soon I'll have a plethora of new, free content to sweeten the deal, and make $1 or $5 a month feel more worth it. More on that as it comes.

Look forward to a more consistent upload schedule. Gonna try and keep it to one a week, every Saturday morning.
Enjoy, consider subscribing, and hopefully I'll be seeing you at the cons soon!

TRANSCAT'S BACK, ALRIGHT!

 

Click HERE to order TransCat B-Sides TODAY!

Gosh, it's been a lil over two years since my last update, ain't it?
I do apologize for the long absence, there's been SO much going on, all of which I will GLADLY tell you about now!

So the part you may know already is that the collaboration I forged to work on TransCat Issue #13 fell apart. I started focusing on TransCat B-Sides while I regrouped and concocted a way to re-write Issue #13 which utilized as much of my already finished art as possible.

THEN, The Come Out and Play compilation came along! 

Once in awhile, I got an opportunity from the fine people at Stacked Deck Press to take part in one of their amazing comics compilations. It had been awhile for me, since many of their recent compilations were themed around subjects and identities that didn't truly include me, so I took a back seat for a lil bit. but this opportunity came along in early 2024 and I wanted to jump on it.
The theme is queer people in sports, and I figured, athlete or not, as a trans woman, I got a lot to say on this topic.
I'd had this joke in my mind for a long time about TransCat playing volleyball, and accidentally colliding with one of her teammates as they both rushed for the ball, and as they both recovered on the gym floor, TransCat asks, in a daze "So does this mean we're like, going now? Or what?" So, a story about Volleyball became my focus.
The story went through many drafts, and eventually became a story about TransCat joining her community college's volleyball team in search of a much needed PE credit for her GenEd requirements.
She is at first accepted onto the team since they're just desperate for another teammate, but when it comes out she is trans, people begin demanding she be kicked off the team for having an unfair advantage, even though she clearly sucks at the game.
At pitched that draft to the editors and they really liked it, but THEN the Olympics happened and everyone started accusing Imane Khelif of being trans and I really REALLY wanted to change my story from a volleyball one into a boxing one. I wrote a new treatment and sent it to Stacked Deck and was like "Hey listen, i know I'm already deep into my first draft, but check THIS out!"
I wished I hadn't spent so much time on that second treatment, cuz they rejected it almost outright. Dunno why exactly, they were just like "No, please stick with your current pitch."
Maybe they were trying to court a little less controversy, maybe they just thought I was too far along to change course, but either way I'm was disappointed but eventually glad that they stood firm cuz the story I eventually finished ended up bringing down the house.
I wound up NOT using that "So does this mean we're like, going now? Or what?"
There was just no good place to put it in the story, so I'mma hafta hang onto that one for later. I have a feeling this won't be the last time TransCat plays volleyball.

So anyway, that took up a lot of my time.

I'm sure you're wondering "Knave, why am I not hearing about ANY of this until now?"

Well.

In 2024, my life ALSO changed in a HUGE way.

I'm sure many of you reading have heard of the recent film "I Saw the TV Glow".
If you've seen the film, you can probably see where this is going, but to put it bluntly, the ending of that movie really made me question all of my life choices.
I'd been "in transition" for the past 8 years, and in that moment, I felt like I was being lazy, sitting on my laurels, not making the moves I REALLY wanted to make, due to either anxiety associated with surgery recovery, or the social stigma that comes with VISIBLY transitioning. I'd already been doing that for awhile, as I've had pronounced breasts for at least 7 of the past 8 years. But I'd been wanting to mess with not just my junk, but my face as well. Biting the bullet and facing the pain of surgery, the awkwardness of recovery and the endless, endless possibilities that I wouldn't like what I've chosen.
This anxiety wreaked havoc not only on my private life, but my social life as well. I'd ceased any kind of romantic pursuits almost entirely, and went out only with friends I knew well and felt comfortable with, making no effort to meet new people or try new things. I gained a lot of weight, and my health went downhill.
But seeing the ending of "I Saw The TV Glow" really awakened in me this feeling that I'd been letting fear ruin my life, and that maybe I was running out of time to have the life I wanted and be happy. It was 2024 and I was gonna be 40 years old that autumn. And what had I done with that time?
I was devastated. I sobbed in the theater. I sobbed so hard, my nose bled. I dunno if those two things were necessarily related, but i had to apologize to the theater staff for bloodying up my seat. It was that bad.

I walked away from that theater experience feeling lost and extremely down on myself, unsure of what I was going to do with these new feelings.
All I knew was I had to make a change in my life.

What happens next is complicated and not all parts of this story are for public consumption, but long story short, while in this new mindset, I met someone who wound up changing my life. Someone who was free in all the ways I wished to be. Someone who, through spending time with and observing, I feel like I learned a lot about how to love myself, and be who I wished to be.
If you asked her now, she would not want to take credit for this. she would say I did all the hard work, and she'd be right, but I think having her in my life made that hard work feel not so hard.

So here we are, a year and a half later.
I've gotten my FFS, I'm in the middle of scheduling my GRS.
I am dating again.
I am going out regularly.
I am going to the gym, getting in better shape.
I'm attempting to make some moves in my career and education.
AND I've moved out on my own, finally.
I am now a proud resident of the great city of San Fransisco.

And through all this, i have not REALLY been working on TransCat :/

BUT! Were back! We are SO BACK! I am a proud San Fransiscan artist and by golly it's about time I've made a name for myself. I've got a new book that you can buy RIGHT NOW, and I've already booked my first new show at Pride in Panels NEXT WEEK and the SF Public Library. 

Keep an eye out for MORE show announcements, because I have no intention of stopping here.
Also, Issue #13 is being worked on again, along with Issues #14, #15 and #16.

When I get good pencil drafts of all these issues down on paper, I'll start showing them off.
Keep an eye on my long forgotten Patreon for further updates.

I've also been toying with another concept called "TransCat's Livejournal" which will be  a collection of either one off jokes, random musings, short stories, or even very pointed references that I feel like putting TransCat in.
That one's still in the cooking phase. Stay tuned on that one.

I'm hoping I'll have more to say, and more time to say it in coming months.
My new work schedule is a little unpredictable and very demanding.
But PLEASE trust there WILL be more to say!

In the mean time, get your copies of TransCat B-Sides, and come see me at the shows! ^~^

CHEERY CHUNGUS FROM TRANSCAT!

Cheery Chungus, everyone!
Here's TransCat Santa Chungus! She's the GOOD one! Don't worry! You can trust your Christmas wishes with her!

If you follow me on my various socials, you have probably noticed that this lil guy has become my user avatar since the beginning of December!

What does she mean? What's going to happen with her? Oh, jsut you wait and see, my dearest lads and lasses! Just you wait and see! Maybe nothing? Who's to say? Maybe it will be THE most intense experience of all time!

Either way, you'll have to come in a check again on Christmas to find out for sure!

Hey, you know, it's been a long time since I updated this site! How do you like the new look? Let's just say I watched that short documentary on Brigitte Bond on Youtube, and was inspired. If you ain't seen it yet, HERE it is!
I've always been kind of a casual Ska fan, but I've never attempted to work the look and the aesthetics into TransCat. I've actually always been more of a punk fan, which, as you can see, is really represented in the site's new look as well. I would like for this to be a prooject I keep adding more to as the comic goes on and the site continues to evolve. There's a lotta punk rock icons that could TransCatified, and they will surely come to me more and more over time. When I got another two rows of brick walls worth of doodles, I'll add to the scroll.

Did you know I went to another con recently?
That's right, SF Fan Expo was just two weeks ago.
I practically INSIST you check out all my photos! Click the picture below :3

 

 

It was a GREAT con. And I'm not just saying that because it's the first con I've been to since March. It was legitimately very fun, and I did really good business there.
I also need to thank my table buddy, Stephanie, for accompanying me, helping me set up and break down every day, and guarding the table during my many bathroom breaks and explorations around the convention.

This was actually NOT a great con for merch! I hardly found anything there I wanted to buy. And the few things I DID want were FAR too expensive for me to justify. Maybe that's a good thing though, cuz I need to be better with my money.

I was sitting just over 50 feet away from the infamous Ken Penders himself.
I was so, SO tempted to cause some kind of incident over at his booth, but I really wasn't looking to get kicked out of the con either. Plus, I know Mr. Penders to be a very litigious person. He certainly ain't working on or releasing comics these days, so he's got all the time in the world to sue Sega, Archie Comics, IDW, Paramount Pictures and the like. Surely he would not mind adding me to the list of defendants.

For context, Ken Penders is the man who is most often credited for sinking the ship that was Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog adaptation. He is definitely also some kinda weird sex pervert too, if the storylines he kept trying to explore are any evidence. But yeah, he wound up adding like 100 new characters to the Sonic the Hedgehog roster during his time working on the comic, and for some reason, neither Archie nor Sega took the time to make this guy sign any kind of forfeiture of ownership agreement when he got hired. Both Sega and Archie CLAIMED this document existed. But after Ken got fired from the comic for being a sex pervert, and he made the claim that all of his original characters actually belonged to him, neither side could produce the document. So, they had no choice but to allow Ken Penders to take his army of cartoon furries with him, many of which had become INTEGRAL to the plot, thus sinking the comic.

You can make the argument that it was Sega and Archie that really dripped the ball here, but I still choose to think of Penders as the bad guy here because when you think about how fucking STRANGE the Sonic the Hedgehog fandom is, I feel like you can trace it directly back to this man.

But I guess the GOOD news was that IDW picked up the Sonic license afterwards, and decided to ONLY use characters from the games, which, should have been Archie's strategy to begin with. But, in all fairness, in November of 1992, when they first picked it up, Sonic the Hedgehog had exactly three main characters, Sonic, Tails, and Robotnik. So I guess the need to create a supporting cast WAS there. i just wish Ken Penders hadn't had such a heavy hand in creating it.

Anyway. I let the whole con go by and never gave this man a piece of my mind. I was actually kind of surprised that NO ONE did, considering how infamous he is. I cannot think of anyone who is a "fan" of this guy. Maybe that's why, honestly. Maybe people just walked by his booth not knowing who he was or what he did. Maybe I'M the weirdo for knowing all this, and wanting revenge after all these years. I am at least willing to explore the possibility.

Anyway, it wasn't all bad. I had a really cute incident where this little kid was walking by my booth with his parents, and he excitedly pointed at my booth and shouted "CATBOYYYYYY!" I smiled and simply said "CatGIRL", to which he responded "CATGIRRRRRLLLLLL!"
Probably the highlight of the entire con.

I was also sitting next to a really talented Filipino artist named Kristian Kubuay who I wound up buying two books from.
The first one is COMPLETELY in Tagalog, and I cannot read a single word of it. I am not even sure what it's called, but it is apparently a fashion magazine from the Philippines that features a friend of his who is a transgender model, and is not only working on transgender advocacy, but is also very vocal and outspoken about sharing Filipini cutlure that existed pre-colonization, and urges fans and followers to not forget these roots, and actively fight back against homogenization, etc.
I could be wrong, but i think her name is Geena Rocero. That's what I get when I type "Filipino Transgender Model" into google, and those pictures KINDA look like the pictures in the book, and since I can't read it, iIam going on faith.

The other book I got from him is called Apoy Ni Lakapati, which apparently just means "Lakapati's Fire". Lakapati is a Filipino God who blesses not only the harvest, but also pregnancies. I am not SUPER well versed in the story behind this figure, but apparently, different interpretations of this God's stories lead people in the modern day to think of them as a transgender figure. I guess there's certain aspects of them that are thought of and conveyed very masculine, and others that are very feminine. I have not read the book yet, so perhaps I'll learn more about it after I do, but the good news is, I CAN read it, because it is in English! Phew! More to come, perhaps! If you wanna read it for yourself, you can get it HERE.

Anyway, I could go on and on about the con. Perhaps I'll say more later, but there's a lot going on in my house and I can't be on the computer all day. I'll close by saying my application to go to Queer Comics Fest in SF is in. Fingers crossed I get in. That will be February 18th.
I'm also considering going to Galaxy Con in August, which is a far way off still, but it's on my radar.

Pray for me :3