Breena Nunez on Zines and Feeling Seen as an Afro-Latinx Comic Artist
b"Breena Nu\\xf1ez\\xa0is an Afro Guatemalan-Salvadoran cartoonist who grew up on the Bay Area's peninsula. Now she lives in the East Bay.\\nNu\\xf1ez's illustrations cover everything from commentaries about electoral politics to autobiographical comics about gender, sexuality and race.\\nAfrican ancestry in Central America\\xa0is a through-line in Nu\\xf1ez's work. Sometimes she explicitly brings it up in the captions, other times she subtly alludes to it through hairstyles or a character's skin tone.\\nEarlier this year, Nu\\xf1ez and her partner\\xa0Lawrence Lindell\\xa0co-founded\\xa0Laneha House, a small press where they publish their work and the work of\\xa0The BAYlies collective. And just this month, the two got married."