G-Squared is a story about surviving abuse in a semi-autobiographical portrait of the artist’s lived experience. The main character, Gumball Girl, copes with her trauma by connecting with her Kaiju-inspired imaginary friends: Platypus, Wow-zah, and Shadowman, with whom she sorts through intense, heavy emotions through rap-style conversations with these parts of her identity. These imaginary friends help her face her fears. She often fights her Kaiju-friends through everyday challenges as she seeks to learn more about herself. Each scene and the entire script of this story revolves around rhyme schemes.
Gumball Girl believes she has super powers but doesn’t know how to fully utilize her abilities yet. Having not had the best support growing up, she spent a lot of her childhood stuck in her head, thinking in pictures. Gumball Girl often turned to visual art to communicate her feelings and expressions; this story spans her youngest memories from childhood through adolescence and college where she learns to find her voice through art.
Gumball Girl’s healing starts within the frame of this illustrative mindscape as she takes back her power and learns to love herself as a recovering gambling addict. It took 10 years of recovery for Gumball Girl to get to a healthy weight through therapy, support and finding the right medicine. Gumball Girl eventually graduates with honors and receives her Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Art with a Concentration in Drawing.
In conclusion, Gumball Girl learns more about herself as an Advocate for Disability Rights and is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ Community and finds someone who truly understands and accepts her for who she is as a partner – she is now loved properly. Gumball Girl can be found today continuing to create stories as a Comic Book Artist and Illustrator. Gumball Girl still doesn’t have all the answers to her questions, so she continues to work with the Kaiju-friends and fight for equal opportunities for all because in the end, art will save us.
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G-Squared (Gumball Girl):
Non-stop rap battle opera!!