📝This archived post is originally from my old comics focused Wordpress blog from 2011-2019. That site was a space to publicly commit to learning the art and craft of cartooning and self-publishing. These posts are full of a naive enthusiasm that though at times embarrassing, I'm proud of. I hope you find them useful in some way.❤️

This comic was produced for the Time Parcel Service anthology in the Winter of 2012. I tried reverse engineering the landscape depictions from Kevin Huizenga’s Case 0003128-24, found in the collection put out by Drawn and Quarterly, Curses. I was exploring the idea of how it was that Basho arrived at the following haiku.

along the mountain road somehow it tugs at my heart- a wild violet

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