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So often, our first viewpoint to queerness is set within a context of unbridled white supremacy and colonialism. Reconciling that conflict takes a lot of work, but also, who and where are the Othered others who share your experience? Martins grapples with his critical affection for Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.

Victor Martins is a cartoonist and illustrator living and working in Toronto, and one fourth of the Hello Boyfriend comics collective.

Virginia Woolf is an extremely important bigshot early 20th century feminist modernist writer. She was really smart and really cutting and once wrote a whole book’s worth of a love letter to her girlfriend and filled it with just, the trans-est shit. She also once got all decked out in brownface to convince some dude from the British navy to give her and her buddies a tour of a fancy boat. Mixed feelings, tbh

Ley Lines is a quarterly publication dedicated to exploring the intersection of comics and the various fields of art & culture that inspire us. Co-published by Grindstone Comics and Czap Books, generously supported by Koyama Press.

Author/Artist: Victor Martins / Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Grindstone Comics / Czap Books
Page Count: 24pp
Size: 5 x 7.5
Notes: saddle-stitched, b/w, 2-color, risograph
Date of Publication: May 2020
ISBN: 978-1732593169