This last September I drove north with my friend Ben Lewis to hike and camp in the North Cascades. It was my first time to visit North Cascades National Park, and as is essentially always the case when I visit a park, I couldn’t visit nearly as many locations as I wanted to. Guess I’ll have to go back at some point (sigh).

This comic also represents another first–my first full-page hand-drawn comic. I’ve been making collage comics as half of That’s Not Math since August 2017, and I’ve made various single-panel gag comics through the years. But I’ve been wanting to get started with narrative nonfiction comics for a long time now. I’ve been putting off making a comic with thoughts of needing to write a great script, needing to learn better drawing techniques, etc., but realized that what really needs to happen is to just make comics. So here we go into a brave new world of comics!