For fans of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Meg-John Barker's Queer Fine is an essential
graphic memoir about the intricacies of gender identity and expression. As Rhea Ewing neared
university graduation in 2012 they became consumed by the question: What is gender? This
obsession sparked a quest in their quiet Midwest town where they anxiously approached both
friends and strangers for interviews to turn into comics. A decade later their project has
exploded into a fantastical and informative portrait of a surprisingly vast community spread
across the America. Questions such as How do you identify? invited deep and honest accounts of
adolescence taking hormones changing pronouns-and how these experiences can differ depending
on culture race and religion. Amidst beautifully rendered scenes emerges Ewing's own
visceral story growing up in rural Kentucky grappling with their identity as a teenager and
ultimately finding themself through art-and by creating something this very fine .
