Comics

Johannes Faustuz is such a dorky dad. He’s very proud of owning wallet photos in an age when most people just use their mobile phones to show off family photos (Cedrick, on the other hand, is extremely embarrassed his father actually carries his baby pictures in his wallet - see old pic in 2nd slide). - Queenie isn’t happy that she lost the spotlight, but she’s going to have a very long discussion with adults after the day is over. — I didn’t have the exact extreme circumstances as Queenie, but when I was in preschool for a joint show-and-tell with parents, we had to share baby pictures of ourselves. Everyone else had cute baby photos when they had chubby cheeks and open eyes; my mom picked out a photo of me as a sleeping newborn baby with a head full of spiky hair and wearing boy’s clothes. I was obviously not happy, and classmates made fun of me for not having a cute baby photo. So after class my teacher had to explain to me that my baby picture was actually quite normal for a newborn and everyone starts off looking not like the stereotypical baby. Moral of the story: sometimes you need a hard dose of reality and truth early on as a young child. Because of instances like that, I’m very well aware of how many things are not what they seem, and often times I’d rather see the reality and from there I’ll make my judgments. - So I guess it goes full circle in regards to my characters? Each family has their secrets (Kaspers were Nazis, DeValuers were descendants of Syrian and Pied Noir refugees, Williamses have ancestors who were slave owners, etc.), but the current generations are nothing like the past and work hard to contribute back to society. —