About

 
 
Hi! My name is rachael "bird" bohannon (they/them).
 
I draw and write as much as I can, while working as an industrial seamstress to pay bills. 
 
My art subjects include art guidance (how to make art easy), cats (realistic and anthropomorphic), and
auto-bio comics (including my lived experience as a queer invisibly disabled person in the US).
 
Comics and zines are my main public output. Check out my page of zines here: 
https://birdbo.blogspot.com/p/zines.html
 
The below comic is from 2020, excitingly it was included in the comics anthology "Rescue Party!" which was nominated for an Eisner Award.  
 

 
Read more about that here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705273/rescue-party-by-edited-by-gabe-fowler/


 

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