My friend and neighbor back in Houston, Shane Patrick Boyle, died in 2017. His death was highly publicized because he started a GoFundMe to raise funds to buy insulin, which he couldn't afford at the time. He rationed the insulin he had and then died before he could buy more. This is what most articles online will say about him. But I'll always remember him as the founder of Zine Fest Houston and as an artist. Here's a comic of his that I've had for over 10 years now called "Happy New Year". It was published in his zine, "Shane (#8)", and only low-resolution scans of it exist on his private Facebook page. I always thought it was so beautifully simple and emotional, which why I saved it after all these years. It reminds me of King Cat Comics by John Porcellino. I tried to clean up some of the lettering for legibility. Happy new year.
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