A cartoonist is documenting his transition with original comics

InstagramNations is helping others embrace who they are.For Erin Nations, a 34-year-old cartoonist and illustrator based in Portland, Oregon, his comics and zines are diaries of sorts. 

Having begun hormone replacement therapy a year and a half ago, Nations uses his comics to document physical changes as well as musings about his transition. He reflects on growing up as a triplet and what he calls "Tales of Being Trans" in his latest book, Gumballs #1. He also created a Transgender Trailblazers t-shirt featuring his renderings of noteworthy trans activists.

Telling his story through art comes naturally to Nations, who said he's been drawing his whole life. He used to share his work quietly on Tumblr before coming out at the age of 31, just to have somewhere to put it. Now, his down-to-earth drawings are helping others embrace who they are.