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The year is 2004. America has lost its innocence, the dot-com bubble burst, grunge is dead, & Seattle tech is dominating the NASDAQ. Far from the silicone & stainless steel glitz of the Emerald City, the sleepy, gray college town of LaBelle, Washington is home to a pair of clingy, twenty-something lovers. Francesca & Kate is the story of their struggles & successes; a story about trauma, life, and the perseverance of queer love in the days before Obergefell.

This is a comic I started in 2023 with my dear friend r0z. Both of us were looking for a project to practice our creative pursuits, her writing and my comics. she sent me a Google doc full of scripts and I did all the hard stuff! Originally hosted on Webtoons, I found the single page format limiting and so there was a format change in chapter 4.