I began writing and illustrating comics in 2021, beginning with my debut series LITTLE DEATH. LITTLE DEATH is a story I’ve wanted to tell for a long time—the TransGothic Erotic Horror epic of a young trans man named Ellery whose life is turned upside down by a sinister necromancer who tries to sever Ellery’s tentative ties to the mortal world, so he can use him for war, political schemes, and sex. I exhibited LITTLE DEATH at MICE, and won the Somerville Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship Award in 2022. I started exploring linoleum printmaking in my creative practice and exhibited a linocut, DeadLove, featuring Ellery and the necromancer, who goes by Callisto, in the online art competition Exhibizone Love 2022, which won 1st Place in the Public Choice Award.
What I love about linoleum printmaking is its spontaneity—a linocut can be created in an apartment. So that is what I did. I devoted hundreds of hours to designing, drawing, carving, rolling, pulling, and dyeing. I became a linoleum block printing master.
My linocut works were based on the places, the symbolism, the people, and the more-than-people in my life. My linocuts would celebrate, mourn, and ponder. I love the beauty and rage of the natural world, and a hands on process where every choice has meaning. Comics and linoleum printmaking are very alike in that way. I created a body of work that I would sell at a number of art markets. In 2024, I exhibited DeadLove at the Salem Arts Association in Salem, MA. In 2026 I would exhibit Pecore in Toscana at the Cambridge Foundry for the Foundry Festival. The linocut pictured is Boning for Three. Almost my linocuts are for sale at my online shop.
In Summer of 2025, I attended the Somerville Library Comic Con. The library purchased Little Death: Death and the Boy for its Comics Collection, so if you want to borrow it from the library, you can! I had the joyful opportunity to exhibit at GAYBASHD Pride and experienced inspirational connection with attendees through my queer, erotic art. I sold my comics and fine art prints in the Brighton Bazaar, in drag shows at the Crystal Ballroom, and with friends, throughout the Summer and Autumn. Since it’s serialization and print, Little Death: Death and the Boy and Little Death: Precious Things have symbolically opened the door substantially wider for fellow trans erotica creators interested in exploring dark topics and taboo queer romance in fictional works, despite censorship’s crackdown on indie creators’ depictions of these topics. I feel extremely grateful for the community that rallies around me and my work when I share my passion for creating TransGothic art. Thank you!