![]() ![]() ![]() Their work is character-focused, and they use action, romance, and mystery to explore LGBTQIA characters and themes, since those are the stories they always looked for growing up, but could rarely find. Their stories are cute, eerie, and often dark, but almost always hopeful at their core. Today, Keezy writes, draws, and designs their own young adult comics. Although their art is self-taught, they credit Digimon, Hiromu Arakawa, Trina Schart Hyman, Arthur Rackham, and Studio Ghibli as important influences. In this sweet paranormal romance, a gardener haunted by friendly ghosts finds himself taking on more than he signed up for. Any opportunity to con their teachers into letting them illustrate a book report instead of writing one was taken. They grew up drawing on their walls, stealing a few extra chapters by nightlight after bedtime, making graveyards for lost animals in the forest with their brother and sister, and adding monsters and flowers to the margins of every homework assignment. Blue has been living as a ghost for a year when he meets Hamal, a beautiful and sweet gardener who has the ability to see and communicate with ghosts. Keezy Young is a queer comic artist and illustrator from the Pacific Northwest, currently in Seattle, WA. ![]()
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