“Maybe it's the mold or the long rainy days, but the Pacific Northwest keeps spawning comics who find their audience by ignoring the conventions of drafting and connecting to the world around them. Less important than Gary Larson's draftsmanship is his wit. People hated Lynda Barry's faces when they first saw them, but couldn't ignore what she had to say about the way we contort our natural selves to make ridiculous relationships work. Matt Groening's "Life in Hell" never seems to feel dated, decades after he inked the first frames, because of his perfect ear for the absurd. And now comes Nhatt Nichols, pioneer of graphic journalism and intent on building community with cartoons that are carefully built on what's happening to real people. We're proud to run them in The Leader and hope your discovery of them in this book is a satisfying for you as are the afternoons when her email arrives bearing that week's strip. “

-Dean Miller, Editor

The Port Townsend Leader

This book has a hand letter pressed cover and contains the first comics that Nhatt Nichols published in the Port Townsend Leader, with notes on each page explaining the politics behind the small town moment that helped create the comic.