My Career
Year : 2021
I began writing and illustrating comics in 2021, beginning with my debut series LITTLE DEATH, which is a story I wanted to tell for the longest time—it’s a dark fantasy epic about a trans man named Ellery, in a taboo queer relationship with an undead monster who wants to sever Ellery’s ties to the mortal world. 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 (pictured), 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.
Year : 2024
What I love about linoleum printmaking is its dual nature, that spontaneity and ease. A linocut can be created anywhere—in an apartment, in a garden—but it asks you to meet it in meditation. I made time to meet, contemplate, and learn linoleum block printmaking, devoting hundreds of hours to designing, drawing, carving, rolling, pulling, and dyeing. I feel drawn to printmaking as a medium because I love an art that meets me in a realm of calm.
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 (pictured). Almost all 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 of artists and writers. As one artist affected by the topic, I engaged Authors Against Book Bans and the public at a speaking event “Explicit Comics, Censorship, and Freedom of Speech” in April 2026, which was recorded and posted on YouTube by Cartoonists United.