Writer and cartoonist Adrienne Celt imagines the complicated inner lives of animals in her comics. The following collection artfully blends hummingbirds and hippos with politics, mortality, and more.

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Adrienne Celt is the author of two novels—Invitation to a Bonfire, which was a June 2018 Indie Next Pick, and The Daughters, which won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award—as well as a collection of comics, Apocalypse How? An Existential Bestiary. Her work has appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories, Zyzzyva, Esquire, Prairie Schooner, Strange Horizons, and many other places. She lives in Tucson and publishes a webcomic at loveamongthelampreys.com</a.. Find her online in way too many places, including adriennecelt.com, @celtadri on Twitter, or by subscribing to her Tinyletter. More from this author →