About TransLucid
2020 UPDATE: After a 4 year-long hiatus, the comic is back! My gamedev job still leaves very little time for me to work on the comic, but I’ll do my best to keep those strips coming!
TransLucid is a webcomic about the life of Sarah, an introvert transwoman who has to face gargantuan problems like dealing with family, overcoming boredom and procrastination, and going outside her room to engage in eventual social interaction with other human beings. Kind of autobiographical project where I’m mostly making fun of my own life and thoughts, the absurdities of being trans and the problems of diving too much into your own psyche. I should clarify that even if most of the comics are loosely based on real life events, most of it is completely made up (also, my real name is Gemma, not Sarah!).
While the comic follows mostly a chronological order, there are a few “flashback” strips here and there, showing some of the key moments in Sarah’s life before transitioning. Color also plays an important role in the comic. Transition from blue to red roughly represents Sarah’s own gender transition, and orange represents dreams.
If you have any questions, or even if you just want to talk about any topic or yell at me for no reason in particular, feel free to send me an e-mail to tresenella@gmail.com!
This is so neat! I’m very glad to see some of the same things I’m going through put to comic like this. Thanks!
Neato comic! 😀 I can relate to it. Jenny above is my girlfriend and led me here. 🙂 Thank you for expressing these issues.
I really enjoy your website, thank you for making it! Keep up the good work, please <3
Hey, found the comic and wanted to know if you are still doing it. I take particular interest as a trans-girl and artist.
Yes, I’ve recently started again drawing new strips. I hope to have the next one up during this week.
Love your comics! I really like how I can relate. I find that I would think “yup been there” and laugh, makes me feel that someone else “get’s it’.
Hey this site is really rad. A friend linked it on their facebook, and I instantly fell in love with your comics! Will there be any more of them in the future?
Of course, there will be many more to come!
Thank you. “Birthday” made me feel like I’m not alone.
I can totally relate
“Birthday” made me cry. It reminds me of the sorrow my partner has endured yet supported me. I feel sorry for her taking away her husband, the man that never really was there.
Great comic. I’m so happy I found it. Please keep them coming.
There’s no direct connection with the medical term in a strict sense, but the title will start to make sense in the future when the story develops more. For now, I won’t make any spoilers 🙂
Thanks for accepting my earlier comment. I really like your comic strip, and I hope you will continue it for a long time. I find myself wanting to +1 or Like the strips and comments as on Google+ and Facebook. 🙂
I admired the ‘Birthday’ strip, but quite honestly, it touched nothing within me. That budding T-girl had an understanding parent, it appears. Many of us did not.
I, for one, am rather like Kristin Beck, a T-girl—once warrior, one involved in nearly a solitary transition. Can you design a strip that encapsulates who we are? The vet? There are both, F to M as well as M to F (as I am), and the statistical rate of ‘transgender occurrence’ among veterans (especially combat vets) is twice what it is in the general population. I would enjoy seeing an effort made in this direction.
With Respect,
Sharon Isaac
I know the comic doesn’t represent the whole trans-spectrum nor all the situations a trans individual may encounter. That’s not its purpose, I made it as a parodied portrayal of how I lived and went through transition, nothing more. And I wouldn’t like to venture and draw about something I haven’t experienced by myself, sorry.
I have two webcomics I read on a regular basis. I found this one, first. I just recently discovered Rain through Deviant Art and binge read the entire thing up to the most recent one in under 6 hours (that’s about 100 pages per hour). If this says anything, I don’t have any set RSS feeds set up for either this comic or Rain, but my Google Now notifies me nonetheless whenever the site is updated with a new page on both comics. (For the non-techies, that means I visit each website enough times in a period of time that Google noticed and is now trying to be helpful. Some think that Google’s behavior is a bit “big brother-ish,” but I always argue that Google is not using data they have on you to alienate you, but to make it easier for them, and in turn, you, to get the information you need – sometimes before you even know that you WILL need it (the purpose of Google Now). Now look at that… My geekiness led to a totally unrelated topic. To get off that tangent… I just visit these comics a lot… And I love them both greatly. I personally am an artist, but I’m not as good as most. I have a Deviant Art… But I’m mainly using it for school projects now. My focus in my art is some of the struggles that comes with being transgender… And I started with sad stuff. Now I am doing about 6 out of 8 pieces sad, the rest of the time I am edging into some of the happiness I am getting from starting to transition. No HRT, yet. But I will have my name change made official within a week, two weeks tops (The judge was too busy to go over it yesterday, as originally planned. I was told to call again later today since I checked in the morning. Still nothing. Clerk said to call towards the end of the week. Gotta love the snail-paced court system). But, I digress. The point is it’s happening. Hugs to all! And keep the comics coming!
Pardon the mile long comment… Got slightly carried away.
I started on Prozac recently, and just the other day I found out it’s also marketed under the name Sarafem, and it reminded me of you and TransLucid. (Get it? Sara… femme.)
Your drawing here is beautiful, totally professional-level. [I’m old, so if that grates on you, be lenient with me lol!] Your sense of humor is deep, intelligent, poignant, and always enjoyable, even when it stings the (my-)self (in a good way!), or brings good tears. I always look forward to a new Sarah adventure! I’ve even caught myself saying “Pfft!” a few times – She’s rubbed off on me! 🙂
And you were totes cute in your ‘cameo’ in “Glasses,” too! 😉
Tour comics are
So
FREAKINGLY AWESOME
Seriously
Since i understand most of pains and happines put in those comics (especially because at some point i’ll have exacly same issues paired with few Mode ) i dam wi easly laugh at self – humor bhere
Do not get na wrong
Tour comics are awesome for anyone ego is not Total douche
Damn you autocorrection
I’ve always wanted to do something like this but I don’t have the amazing art skills you do. 😉 I’d be coming from the transmasculine perspective however. Between my partner (also ftm) and I and our zany rescue pup (who is a mix of crazy toy breeds), I think I’d have a lifetime of comic material, lol. Maybe one day I’ll take an art class…but in the meantime, I certainly hope this comic is revived as I’d absolutely love to read more! I also have to agree that comics are a great educating tool. Thank you immensely for your work!