Beautiful Morning, Beautiful Day is a 40+ page magical realist/autofiction comic about grief, strength, and cowgirls. The story follows a young woman, Marj, as she navigates the despair she feels in the advent of her grandmother’s death, learns to love the musical Oklahoma through her grandmother’s illness, meets a magical horse in a hospice bathroom, and learns that to be a real cowgirl is to be able to be strong for the people you love in the face of immovable circumstances. I was inspired to create this story when, on the last day I saw my grandmother alive, in the middle of my own bout of despair, a woman told me I was dressed like a cowgirl and I felt oddly better.
