Author of
FINE: a comic about gender (Norton, 2021)
Rhea Ewing is a Wisconsin artist and an alumna of UWC-Baraboo/Sauk and UW-Madison. A transplant to the Midwest, Rhea calls Wisconsin “the first place that felt like home” and tries to capture that sense of place in their work. Rhea calls upon personal and political themes of living with a queer identity in the Midwest, finding connections to the natural world, and building safe spaces for all people. The value of art, by their reasoning, is the ability to create connections, question assumptions, and inspire others to do the same.
Rhea currently lives and works in Wisconsin, wandering the hills through frost, fall, and flowers in search of cool bugs and interesting rocks.
Rhea Ewing
Books by Rhea
FINE: a comic about gender (Norton, 2021)
Fine is an oral history in comics that explores the lived experience of gender in America today, woven together with Rhea Ewing’s own story of eventually coming out as non-binary. There are over 1.4 million Americans who openly identify as trans, and that’s not counting the many who are in the closet or still questioning. Rhea Ewing grew up in a small town in rural America, and they wanted to create this book for the many young people living in isolated pockets of America who feel confused about their gender identity. We are at a transitional moment in the way we as a culture talk and think about gender. Fine will serve as a guide for anyone hoping to better understand why we are where we are, or the experiences of those friends and loved ones and neighbors who don’t easily fit into our, until now, binary understanding of gender