Homebodies
Homebodies is a series of seven short graphic memoirs about becoming a farmer, mother, and artist.
An excerpt from the series is featured in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature (forthcoming 2021). Homebodies was The Rumpus editor’s choice for best comics of 2017.
Deeply personal and beautifully illustrated, [Arwen Donahue] was able to take stories about cutting peppers or walking in the woods and create some of the most inventive and visually exciting comics published anywhere this year… I’m incredibly grateful that she chose to grace us with the series.
View the full series on The Rumpus or browse excerpts below.
Dry Land Shipwrecks
In which stumbling upon the ruins of someone else’s long-ago life causes a woman to fall in love with a farm in rural Kentucky.
Coverture
In which a woman realizes that she has become a farmer’s wife.
Rooting the Slip
In which a wayward soul ponders the vicissitudes of staying put.
Kindly Use, Part I
In which the immanent is imminent.
Kindly Use, Part 2
The Mothering Instinct
In which a woman’s kinship with a dog tick culminates in a Darwinian showdown.
