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From Cup of Jo. Ruth Chan is an illustrator who lives in Brooklyn with her boyfriend. Her comics tackle lighter topics like dogs and curry fish balls to heavier topics like grief and race. She writes and illustrates children’s books.

In Bhutan, they dream of rainbows. The year was 2010. I remember because it was the era of low-rise jeans and the circulation in my legs was starting to feel like a slow fire burning out. It happened on one of the weekends I spent in my grandparents’ sepia-washed living room. Back when life used

More and more, I find my body coiling into itself with the tension of a wound-up spring.  You can say it’s the months I’ve voluntarily subjected myself to partial isolation, the weight of it waiting to barrel out my chest, or the growing pressure of the future with a capital F—this need to situate ourselves