Maré Odomo’s Letters to an Absent Father sounds like an emotionally wrenching autobiographical comic.

And it is emotionally wrenching…but it’s about…well…it’s about someone named Ash and his many many companions.

Odomo is a Seattle based cartoonist whose Late Bloomer is available from Retrofit. She’s very talented, as this reimagining mash-up proves.

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