About the Cover, “A Penchant for Buggery”

What are the stories we tell about ourselves? Are these critters from different sectors of society, or characters that make up a whole? Who are you today … a Saturnian senior citizen or a sassy misbehaving pig? Have you ever been a codependent triceratops supping on a leafy tree? How about a goldfish in love? This drawing is for everyone who has tried to understand the myth of self, from the belligerent star who flips the bird, to the late night hedgehog who shops online. When you introduce yourself to someone new, do they see in you a penguin with wanderlust leaving home, or a supine cat being rollerbladed into bliss? This piece is titled after one of cinema’s most memorable monologues on self-mythology—delivered when Dr. Evil attends group therapy.

Sissy Thompson is an Australian-Canadian artist living on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territory in Vancouver, Canada. She was born under a Pluto retrograde with an insatiable desire to draw little weirdos with big personalities.