Building an Opera in the Waiting Room

The following comic first appeared in theĀ Chicago Reader in June 2022.
Winner of the 2020 Women’s Prose Prize + forthcoming from Red Hen Press in August 2022
A mother abandons her family in California to pursue a miracle cure in Munich. Once she gets there however, she wonders if she might have already died. Bedridden with a terminal diagnosis, memories, nurses, immoral doctors, foreign television broadcasts, and phone calls from children intrude upon her consciousness. An aloe plant called Madame Blavatsky is her primary companion.
The Healing Circle is a far-reaching, honest, and funny novel about dying and living, a kind of pilgrimage to wholeness through uncertainty and disorientation. Full of resonance, it asks what it means to heal, to be in pain, to be a person.
The Healing Circle is wry, subtle, and daring. Coco Picard has written a vivid novel about living, dying, and remembering.
The following comic first appeared in theĀ Chicago Reader in June 2022.
The following comics interview with long time collaborators Stan Shellabarger and Dutes Miller first appeared in the Chicago Reader in May 2022.
A new series I have been working on with co-editor, Giovanni Aloi, from University of Minnesota Press is finally live! More information available here. Listen to interviews with Art after Nature authors: Art and Posthumanism with Cary Wolfe (Art after Nature Part 1); Eco… +
The following comic appeared in the Chicago Reader in March 2022.
The following article was originally published by Hyperallergic in March 2022. Multimedia artist Sama Alshaibi consistently interrogates the female form as a nexus point for politics, histories, climate, and forced migrations. Her exhibition Four SeriesĀ at Zane Bennett Gallery spans 15 years of artistic inquiry… +