Lee Lai is great with a knife 🔪
Added 2025-11-30 16:21:14 +0000 UTCThis month, Tuck chats with cartoonist Lee Lai about her graphic novels Stone Fruit and Cannon. Topics include:
She/her mustache, Puberty 4, and being mistaken for transfemme
How gossiping helps Lee develop her characters
Do hormones affect where your feelings physically sit in your body?
The hazards of thinking you should be rewarded for being overly self-reliant(!!!)
“I have a lot of mechanisms for navigating cis spaces that I wouldn’t advise”
Keeping yr political/organizing work separate from yr job of writing books
Learning that relationships are about more than just trying really hard :(
Getting creative with dialog bubbles and conveying speech visually
A new project about how transmascs can be annoying??? :) :)
Is it disrespectful to read an entire graphic novel in the corner of a bookshop?
Plus: Emotional journalism, toxic friend dynamics, and the titular Carrie?
Find Lee at lee-lai.cargo.site, on IG @_leelai, and on Patreon.
Find Tuck on book tour in Portland on Dec 19! (For real this time.) RSVP here.
Comments
Was it saving up goodness points for one ask? Because I’ll be sitting with that for a while
Erika Bentley Holland
2025-12-03 05:29:00 +0000 UTCthis episode was excellent and also mortifying to listen to when I realized 'oh no, I do that thing' *(so... thank you for that)
MathClassWarfare
2025-11-30 22:08:12 +0000 UTC
