A Place Like Home
a comic for the Southeast Asians RISE Zine Collective
For the past month, I’ve been part of the Spring/Summer 2021 Southeast Asians RISE Zine Collective, an intergenerational (virtual) community space for Oakland-based Southeast Asian creatives. Our final project was to co-produce a zine and I chose to make a comic reflecting on the theme of belonging + home.
Thinking about my identity has sometimes felt like too much—a series of complicated questions I didn’t want (or wasn’t sure how) to answer. When I was younger, I felt a lot of confusion and shame and guilt around being Southeast Asian American. This internal struggle was mirrored in my warped perception of our family home, which I always thought was too chaotic and different from everyone else’s.
It wasn’t until I had to leave home and grow up that I started to realize that maybe part of figuring out your identity is making a place for yourself within those complicated questions.
So here’s my comic about that…
For more from me:
Read Abbie Wu’s (Not So) Epic Quarantine Diary, my COVID-19 webcomic— now also available as an e-book
Check out the Frazzled series, my illustrated middle grade books
Follow me on social media (let’s be honest, I only really know how to use Instagram)