Shenzhen Fast - Migration and CNC (Patreon)

Another page of Shenzhen Fast! This was another tough one. Not only because I decided to draw a cityscape in the middle of it....

(yeah it's traced but still... shout out to me haha)...

... but I also spent some time rewriting this one. I wanted to say something about migration, which is deeply important to how things work there. But it's also a very sensitive issue. This is something that I've been struggling with through the whole comic. China is just a place, and it's people are just people. I wanted my #1 focus to be on the people who live there and actually do all this work. 

But I also want to be careful about how I describe things for several reasons. First, because I don't want to make it seem like everything about China is great -- its government is scary and the people there lead difficult lives. Secondly because the people themselves aren't free to criticize -- and so portraying their critique is putting them in real physical jeopardy. Thirdly because I am an outsider, and I can't speak for their experience. 

It's a difficult line to walk, and I'll probably be tweaking things more, but I still think it's an interesting topic that I want to write about that impacts the lives of everyday people around the world.