portfolio 2025

I am a nonfiction cartoonist who writes about social movements.

The best places to find me are here (yarndollcomics.com) and Instagram (@yarndollcomics).

Here’s what I’ve been up to!

komik-komik sama-sama

Graphic journalism about the transformative power of making art together, based on research conducted in Indonesia as a Watson Fellow.

Komik-Komik Sama-Sama: Adventures in Indonesian Art and Liberation (2024). 8.25×6″, 90-page paperback comic book.

Two Collectives, p.4
Two Collectives, p.6
Komik-Komik Sama-Sama: Mini-zines, 2024.
These small excerpt zines were released in the lead up to the publication of Komik-Komik Sama-Sama. ‘Two Collectives’ is pictured with sister zine An Interview with Sukma Smita.
Displaying the colorized Two Collectives prints at Yogyakarta Komik Weeks, 2024.

Two Collectives (Excerpt), 2024. 7×5″ mini-zine and A4 digital drawings, 2024. Two Collectives is a chapter of Komik-Komik Sama-Sama, about the art collectives Taring Padi and Apotik Komik. I released it as a mini-zine in the lead-up to Komik-Komik’s publication, and colorized the pages for display at Yogyakarta Komik Weeks 2024.

Reading at Yogyakarta Komik Weeks
Group photo after talk at the Jakarta Arts Institute. My host, Professor Beng Rahadian, is seated next to me holding the poster.

Komik-Komik Sama-Sama 2024 book tour.

up the columbia!

Undergrad thesis comic about Columbia River dams.

Up the Columbia!, 2019. 5.5×7.75″, 52-page color paperback comic book.
Up the Columbia! (Interior)
Excerpt from Up the Columbia!, about the infamous flooding of Oregon’s Celilo Falls by the Dalles Dam. Indigenous salmon rights were a central theme of the comic book.
Gallery display of Up the Columbia! books and pages at the Reed College Senior Showcase, 2019.

Before Komik-Komik, my last book was my Reed College Senior Thesis project, Up the Columbia! (2019.) Columbia is a graphic history and travelogue of the 14 dams of the mainstem Columbia River, from the Canadian Rockies to the Oregon Coast.

misc. recent work

Chicago Diary, 2025
Chicago Diary (Interior), 2025

Recent work: Chicago Diary, 2025. 5.25×6.5″, 16-page color minicomic about my experiences vending at the 2024 Chicago Comic Arts Fest.

My 2025 talk at Show Up!, a series organized by Short Run Comix Fest.
2025 solo show at Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery, displaying paintings and original work from Chicago Diary.

Recent events in Seattle.