Wayward Kindred Review

Creators: Casey Blandford, Val Wise, DJ Chavis, Nikki Powers, Sunita Balsara, Katie Hicks, Seungwoo Baek, Grayson F. Lee, Cam Lopez, gillian blekkenhorst, Mary Verhoeven, Ardo Omar, Shae Beagle, Caitlin Quirk, JesnCin, Goldie Shen, Joyce Chau, Amber Huff, Sherin Nicole, K. Kelsay, Tate Brombal, V. Gagnon, Day Irwin, Izzy Hall, Andi Santagata, Angela Cole, Cheryl Yong, H. Pueyo, Dante Luiz, Alex Cruz, Sarah Hickey, Meaghan Carter, Kandace Coston, Tess Enli Reid, Rowan MacColl, Gica Tam, Colleen Loges, Te’Sdawn Dwyer, Lyrdia Collins, Julia Vohl / Editors: Allison O’Toole, Ashanti Fortson, Kat Vendetti / TO Comix Every family has a story. Perhaps more crucially, every family has stories, tall tales that get passed down throughout generations and retold time and time again because they weave an important tapestry, forge connections between the past and present, and light the way to the future. In these times where some of us are required to be physically distant from our families and our loved ones, there is something to be said about the comfort found in stories about familial love, about the bonds we share: no matter how conventional or unconventional. Which is why I’m personally thankful for the latest collection from Toronto Comix, Wayward Kindred. I had backed this book on Kickstarter last year, and just this past Sunday afternoon sat down in my living room with my tablet and started scrolling through the seventeen different stories. As I read each one, certainly there were …