Isolated and adrift at their middle school, Kel can’t help but dream about small spaces. How comforting it would be to fit somewhere perfectly, but what happens when a refuge becomes a trap? Told through interconnected spreads, Kel’s fascination with small spaces – finding them, existing in them, and even getting stuck in them – occupies their every moment. As Kel navigates the awkward rituals of middle school, their research-fueled reveries continue until they must find out for themselves what kind of stuck they want to be.
Violet Kitchen is a genderqueer cripple recovering hermit who makes their home on the banks of the Connecticut River. A cartoonist by day and graveyard-wanderer by night, they’re also an avid history buff with a particular focus on radicalism, futurism, and ill-fated expeditions to the Antarctic. Violet is a 2023 graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies, at which they now work as a comics librarian, as well as a member of the Cartoonist Cooperative.
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