Putting cartoons of me, especially cartoons of me in my library, wasn't meant as some great metaphorical act. But the reason I keep making them is because they tend to come out that way anyway.
I have written thousands of little essays and stories about myself, of my observations, my (mis)adventures, my small pleasures, and my struggles at the library I work at. And with time running out on me working in my library, maybe there isn't that much left to say. I don't know. Maybe there are endless things to say. I have always operated as if the well sinks down forever. But either way, putting my cartoon character into the library feels like saying new things, and even if it isn't, it at least says them in new ways.
Metaphors spill out of them.
And that is never more true than in the next several pictures I'll be showing you.
I am tempted to say more about these and about my feelings at the library right now, which are a little uncomfortable, but the metaphor here is so wide ranging and nice and simple, and outsized, that I think I'll just leave it to itself from here.
All that being said, and after writing all this introduction, I'd rather the pictures stand on their own, so I'm going to let them out individually throughout the day...
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