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Flowers of Yarn

A graphic memoir on ritual and mourning

By Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Marginalia | Yarn, comic, death, family, flowers, mourning, ritual
December 16, 2015

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is an AAWW Margins Fellows. Don’t miss her comic about spell check’s red squiggle.

 

To read Rowan’s comic, click images to enlarge, and click through all five panels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is an AAWW Margins Fellow. Her work has appeared in NPR’s Selected Shorts, Tin House’s Literary B-SIDES, Public Books & TriQuarterly.
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