sweet dreams

Featured in Lilies Anthology

Miles “Bread” Lee

June 2019 hi, i’m bread (they/them)! i’m a junior in college studying communication design, writing, and (groans) computer science. i’ve recently started making comics (i still have a lot to learn) and wanted to try submitting to lilies since i’ve heard so much about it! i thought about the “dreams” prompt for a long time before remembering this song i heard years ago called “dream a little dream of me.” it was originally made by fabian andre, wilbur schwandt, and gus kahn in 1931, but since then many people have created their own covers, such as ella fitzgerald and the mamas & the papas (the version i listened to while drawing this). i encourage you to give it a listen! in my comic, i wanted to depict what i see as the core of the song: longing for someone you’ve just barely met. i decided to draw a nighttime ballroom scene in which a young woman is dancing with a man she finds boring, switches partners (per the rules of the dance), and is starstruck by the woman she meets. the rest is history! i’m super stoked to be in lilies anthology volume 8! a huge thank you to the editor anna, and thank you for reading! tumblr & twitter: @fumikawge portfolio: by-lee.weebly.com