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Published on June 3rd, 2014 | by Tyler Cohen

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THREE: More MAMAPANTS Comics by Tyler Cohen

Whether it’s a love triangle or young children trying to work out friendship–how to have them, how to be a friend, how to share a friend–THREE is not a magic number; it’s a really difficult number. It’s trial and error, and each direction turned kicks up so many feelings!

Friendship is complicated.

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About the Author

Tyler Cohen (She/They) is a cartoonist who likes to mix autobiography and surrealism. Her book, Primahood: Magenta, won the 2017 Bisexual Book Award for Graphic Memoir. Tyler’s work has also appeared online at PEN Illustrated and MuthaMagazine.com, and in print in numerous anthologies, including the Eisner Award-winning Drawing Power and Ignatz Award-winning Qu33r. They are a lecturer in Comic Studies at San Francisco State University.


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