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Jillian Tamaki

Jillian Tamaki (jilliantamaki.com) has drawn for the New York Times, National Geographic, and The New Yorker.
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April 2020 / Health

When Is a Senior No Longer Capable of Making Their Own Decisions?

March 18, 2020July 24, 2020 - by Jillian Tamaki

How our medical systems strip elders of their autonomy

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a series of several different tubes
Comics / December 2015

Our Ever-Changing Moods

November 18, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Jillian Tamaki

Connecting to (or disconnecting from) others, with clothes

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Colour figures outstretched
Fiction / October 2015

Cowan

September 17, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Jillian Tamaki

Cowan was beautiful. I wouldn’t admit it back then, but he was. Had a face like Gregory Peck at a time when the rest of us were still working off …

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Illustration by Jillian Tamaki
Feature / October 2013

Hot Wired

October 28, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Jillian Tamaki

Gay men are on the vanguard of the digital sexual revolution, and the rest of us are not far behind. Are we satisfied yet?

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Fiction / September 2009

Summer of the Flesh Eater

September 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Jillian Tamaki

Understand that pity is not what we’re looking for. We are men, we remind each other as often as we can, and we must bear that burden. Forgetting was what …

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Illustration by Jillian Tamaki
December 2008 / Feature

The Lynching of Louie Sam

December 12, 2008July 27, 2020 - by Jillian Tamaki

In 1884, an American mob brought frontier justice to the Canadian border. Their deed echoes to this day

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