By buttercup. Published by Radiator Comics. Softcover, 140 pages, Colour, 2024 In UM Volume One by buttercup, Eugenée (they/them) is just like any other nonbinary apprentice midwife and occult polyamorous plant dad. They play video games, begrudgingly attend church with their granma, and occasionally get transported into elaborate visions of magical happenings from the distant past! Ué may chalk it up to their casual substance use or the suspiciously arcane, dead-eyed gaze of their cat companion, Lamarche. but the gag is, what’s actually up is so much weirder. In their debut graphic novel, buttercup weaves a beautiful swirling mixture of cosmic magic and intimate friendship, dazzling adventure and quiet drama, fun humor and sincere heartbreak. Edited by Jamila Rowser & Steenz! HonorsNominee, 2025 Best Graphic Album – Reprint Eisner Award!Listed, Best New Comics For Adults 2024, New York Public LibraryPress“It’s a work that refuses to play by the rules of comics, and thank god. Strange, funny, gorgeous and uncomfortably sad, all at once.”– Comic Book Herald’s My Favorite Comics of October 2024INTERVIEW: buttercup Talks the Metaphysical Majesty of UM Volume 1 with Rosie Knight, Women Write About ComicsAllowed Interview Episode 10 with Christine Pasalo Norland, Hello Barkada“Criminalization of Marginalized Identity is Something We’ve Seen Grow… in Recent Years” – buttercup on Their Magical Girl Comic ‘UM’ and Portraying the Realities of Queer Black Life with Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
