I usually let my comics stand on their own, but I thought I’d give a bit of context behind this one! Thread below 
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In some relationships where a person feels their main role is a “protector”, it is the “protector” who is being protected. They are protected from the horror that they might not be “protecting” and therefore have no role to play. Their partner has to do all that work.
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I was recently sharing an umbrella with someone in a downpour, and thought of it as an interesting metaphor for relationships. Of course it works better when you are both holding your own umbrella! And you don’t need someone to keep your umbrella dry.
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I love working on this series because it’s so challenging to fit these ideas succinctly into three panels. This one has been through so many drafts to make it work! The main breakthrough was making the umbrellas extremely tall to accommodate the speech bubbles
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I wanted someone who wasn’t orange blob pointing out that pink blob is holding up both umbrellas. After a lot of thinking I decided it would be funny to make a rain drop say it out of nowhere! But I also think that works as a way of questioning what we are being “protected” from.
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We can be made to feel like people from outside our relationship are bad, when they might be the very people who can see the toxic relationship objectively for what it is, and help us realise that
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in summary: you: I want to read a simple humorous comic strip me: here is an intense exploration of social and political issues you: oh no
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aaaah I love this! so bad

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[comic that everyone shares and likes] [me: I don’t get the point] [oh no]
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my aim is to make comics that everyone shares but no-one understands
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