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Baopu #133: Every Goodbye Is Temporary

A departure can feel like any other day, but it marks a new beginning. Soon, it’s time to meet again.

Yao Xiao

Mar 22, 2025

Two panels of the Grease Bat comic. Panel 1: Ari and Gwen are both wearing masks. Gwen is midsentence: "...the birds, flowers, you and all our friends, champagne, W.A.P. and my magic wand!" Panel 2: Gwen: "And THAT concludes my gratitude list!"

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Grease Bats: Gratitude

“What’s the point of podding if I can’t fix your unhappiness?”

Archie

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Aug 22, 2020

A cartoon of two friends sit on a park bench. One has short red hair and a pointy hat. The other has jet black hair to their shoulders and green jacket. The friend with the black hair says "WE are both lost and I can't be the one to help you."

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Baopu #76: Lost, With Directions

I’m searching for the right person who can help me go through all this confusion.

Yao Xiao

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Aug 15, 2020

A hand drawn cartoon of three friends, split into three panels, where two Black friends joke with their non-Black friend about how nervous people get when Black people joke about race.

visual art

Foolish Child #78: We Got Jokes

“You know I can’t tell when you’re making Black people jokes!”

Dickens

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Aug 12, 2020

A hand drawn cartoon of fictional, hot summer week in Portland. The sketches are black and white against a peachy-pink background. One queer partner complains to their other about having to serve a customer at their restaurant who refuses to wear a mask. The temperature outside is 97 degrees. It's HOT and the sun blazes.

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Reine #11: Heat Wave

One hot, queer week in the summer of 2020. From face masks, to protests, to cats sleeping on ice packs to beat the heat.

Ren Strapp

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Aug 8, 2020

Cartoon of the artist, Dickens, discussing Black Lives Matter with two white strangers. The first white stranger makes a joke that the Black t-shirt she's wearing with Black Lives Matter on it is "so slimming" the second stranger erroneously compares statistics of white vs. Black victims of police brutality.

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Foolish Child #77: Black Lives Matter Isn’t a Trend

What’s the point in arguing with a world that will always devalue Black skin?

Dickens

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Jul 29, 2020

geekery

Grease Bats: TikTok Goals

“Obviously I’m joining #FEMMEARMY”

Archie

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Jul 25, 2020

geekery

Baopu #75: Hitting a Wall

A surreal exploration of tackling a mental road block. The other side might be a very different perspective.

Yao Xiao

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Jul 18, 2020

geekery

Foolish Child #76: You Don’t Need to Justify Your Grief

“What right do I have to feel grief over this? It’s not my loss.”

Dickens

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Jul 15, 2020

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Baopu #133: Every Goodbye Is Temporary

Grease Bats: Gratitude

Baopu #76: Lost, With Directions

Foolish Child #78: We Got Jokes

Reine #11: Heat Wave

Foolish Child #77: Black Lives Matter Isn’t a Trend

Grease Bats: TikTok Goals

Baopu #75: Hitting a Wall

Foolish Child #76: You Don’t Need to Justify Your Grief

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