Lee Lai
author or coauthor of nine books, including Boundless, published in 2017 by Drawn & Quarterly.
Lee Lai is a cartoonist who centers bodies: how they are held, the space between them, the way they touch and are touched. Bodies communicate as much as words in her work, and they illuminate the underlying truths of the overlapping relationships in . At the beginning of Lai’s debut graphic novel we see Bron and Ray’s relationship at its best: caring for Ray’s little niece, Nessie. In the forest, the couple running wild and anchored by the exuberant child, the world kind of falls away. But when their coupledom starts to fissure, both women are set adrift and left to confront fractured family ties alone. Bron returns to her childhood home. The complicated nature of care is threaded through much of Lai’s work, which has ranged from zines to webcomics to now a full-length graphic novel.
