Graphic Novel

Graphic Novels for Religious Literacy

Below are just a few pages I’ve been working on for the purpose of establishing religious literacy, but also as a starting point for classroom conversations.

Mormon Ladybug: My Mormon Mission to San Francisco

Below are the first few pages from my Graphic Novel Mormon Ladybug, charting the personal experiences of a young teenage missionary in the California Bay Area (San Francisco and Oakland) in the mid 1990s. This book is neither an expose or promotion of faith, but rather a reflection on religion within a conservative institutional framework and the human desire for autonomy, acceptance, and meaning. In reality, it’s a story about love, acceptance, and ultimately letting go of what you love in order to truly share in that relationship.

In 1995, there was around 50,000 full-time missionaries sent out to nearly 400 different proselytizing missions throughout the globe. This is a simultaneously funny and tragic story of one of them.