Friend
By Yusia Xiao
Artist’s Statement: Friend
“Friend” was created with classic newspaper strips in mind, so I hope people can get a laugh out of it, but still feel a sense of unease. I used the fishes' perspective in this comic because this isn't specific to one situation, but it's easy to replace the fish and apply the cartoon to a lot of real-world horror. The fish aren’t foolish so much as limited—they don’t have the scale or context to understand what they’re looking at, and a lot of times, neither do we.
Yusia Xiao, also known as Fishhead, is a cartoonist and illustrator currently based in New York. They specialize in character design, watercolors, and making sea lion sounds.
