Nutshell Studies of Quarantine is a four-part series that follows Frida as she navigates the last year of our lives. In Part Three, it is Summer 2020. Frida seeks relief as anxiety takes hold while watching the never-ending despair of the 2020 news cycle.

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Yumi Yamaguchi is a half-Japanese, half-Mexican cartoonist who doodles in Los Angeles. She has exhibited her comic Quietly at events across North America, including Comic Arts Los Angeles, Comic Arts Brooklyn, Toronto Comic Arts Festival, and Seattle's Short Run Comix & Arts Festival. When she's not doodling, she's usually reading and drinking coffee with her partner. You can find her work at her Etsy store. Or you can follow her on Instagram.
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Yeah I feel that.
2020 moved the goal posts of what’s tolerable, that’s for sure.
Oof. Yeah.
Love the panel with the strangling arms from the TV…this is the power of art