This is the story of a girl named Emily who befriends Death.
Together, they grow and learn and are forced to challenge
everything they think they know.
Aims to update on Saturdays.
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This comic is almost entirely created and set on the stolen lands of the Boon Wurrung
and Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin nations. I would like to pay my respects to their elders
past, present, and emerging, and to their rich tradition of art and of storytelling.
Sovereignty was never ceded.
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Written and drawn by me, Ira A Francis.
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Exhibited in Top Arts – National Gallery of Victoria – 2012
City of Melbourne Arts Grants recipient – 2018
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CONTENT WARNINGS (SPOILERS AHEAD)
Just a headsup: largely a story about love and friendship, but gets into some kinda heavy themes sometimes.
May contain traces of death (including suicide and genocide), mental illness, abuse, and trauma.
Also swear words.
Chapter-specific content warnings (not exhaustive; feedback welcome):
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- Beginning: adult death due to cancer
- Chapter 1: adult death due to car crash, vague/non-detailed gore
- Chapter 5: discussion of the Holocaust
- Chapter 11: discussion of Black Saturday bushfires
- Chapter 21: discussion of suicide
- Chapter 24: bullying based on mental illness stigmatisation
- Chapter 30: bullying based on mental illness stigmatisation
- Chapter 32: off panel accidental child/infant death
- Chapter 33: adult death in sleep (old age/unspecified cause)
- Chapter 38: depicted suicide attempt
- Chapter 39: discussion of bullying and revenge porn
- Chapter 42: discussion of suicide
- Chapter 43: adult death due to stroke
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