Tess Fowler Gutierrez

Deluxe Diary Comics Vol.1-6 (signed with original sketch) A collection of daily life comics. Behold! 300+ pages of diary comics from 2020 to 2026. Six volumes of brain emissions. Watch as I teach myself to...

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Take the Fall -Deluxe Hardcover Graphic Novel Take the Fall is an autobiographical watercolor adventure deep into the psyche of anxious career comic book artist Tess Fowler Gutierrez after she...

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Three days to make this happen. Fighting every month to keep us housed. There is no fallback besides living in the car. So please consider a book purchase or a Ko-Fi thank you thank you thank you.

Yaaaay! Thank you for posting this! So happy it arrived safely.

Do you feel happy at home? Is it a safe environment for you autistically? We made home super safe so even leaving the apartment for a walk is difficult now. But I like home!! I don't miss anything out there. Am I supposed to miss it? Is it bad i don't?

It feels like Chris and I unmasking autism is too much for a lot of people to understand. And maybe that's why life is so much harder. Because I'm not doing conventions and chasing freelancing. But I'm attempting to build a sustainable life!

I've been so open about survivorship. How our lives got decimated. How there is no recovery happening. How hard we're trying. And I still get told I should go out. Just treat yourself Tess come to dinner!! Is this what neurotypical people do? Spend when there is nothing in the coffers?

I get invited out quite a bit. I've gotten a couple convention invitations as well. I always say no. Chris does too. Even if we weren't broke I don't think we would go out. Its been too long at this point and we discovered we like being solitary. I get asked enough that it throws me though.

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I will never understand people who continue to make partying a priority when finances are not stable. No judgment, I just honestly want to know how you don't expire from anxiety. I haven't even been inside a movie theater since 2019 let alone going to a bar with friends. Do you not worry??

The memoir and the diary comics 1-6 are available in the shop now! 15 more sales and we have late rent handled. So close!!!

Can we do it before the 9th? Will we survive another month? Who's to say! Its like we are tamagotchis who got left in your pants pocket and now are on the verge of oblivion.

Only 2 books available now. If you have them both we also have ko-fi which is in my bio.

Thank you!

The memoir and the diary comics 1-6 are available in the shop now! 15 more sales and we have late rent handled. So close!!!

Diary comic from December 10, 2025

6 volumes of diary comics are available in a single hardcover book. Visit tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com to help a couple artists survive another month. Thank you!

We have deluxe editions of both books available at tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com but the diary comics deluxe has only 15 copies left!

A panel from my memoir. This is The Old Man, art vs photo. My walking nightmare.

Memoir is available at tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com

Art of my abuser whom I dubbed The Old Man when I was a kid. First one is a panel from my graphic memoir Take the Fall. Second is the original photo from the 90s of him in full fancy bustle regalia. 3rd is a xerox copy of the 1998 pencil art I did off the same photo.

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Diary comic from December 10, 2025

6 volumes of diary comics are available in a single hardcover book. Visit tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com to help a couple artists survive another month. Thank you!

I've received messages the past few days about my memoir. Its not a linear cancer survival story. Its a timeline jumping little monster of a book that shows how sexual abuse and assault forever altered my relationship to my body. And the fact that so many people are relating to it is educational.

Can we do it before the 9th? Will we survive another month? Who's to say! Its like we are tamagotchis who got left in your pants pocket and now are on the verge of oblivion.

Only 2 books available now. If you have them both we also have ko-fi which is in my bio.

Thank you!

Art of my abuser whom I dubbed The Old Man when I was a kid. First one is a panel from my graphic memoir Take the Fall. Second is the original photo from the 90s of him in full fancy bustle regalia. 3rd is a xerox copy of the 1998 pencil art I did off the same photo.

Thank you!!!!

Screenshot of a page from the digital edition of Take The Fall. In it, a version of post-surgery Tess stands, ink and watercolour, I think, in a grey space. She is topless, with a double mastectomy scar across her chest. She has greying shoulder-length hair and bangs. A cartoon uterus and two cartoon breasts stand at her feet, shaking, respectively, two fallopian tubes and a scalpel, and yelling. Text reads: I dropped almost 40 pounds the first year after chemo. They took my uterus, my fallopian tubes, and both boobs. My flesh was angry, exhausted. Anxiety lived in my skin. Behind my sternum. In the way my hands quaked when I picked up a pencil. The alarm was still going off inside me and I didn’t know why.

Non-linear, beautiful, wrenching, Tess Fowler’s Take The Fall is not so much a cancer memoir as a memoir of being forced by a devastating cancer diagnosis and treatments to confront suppressed horrors.
You’ll find it, along with more of her extraordinary work, here: tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com

Yes please

A panel from my memoir. This is The Old Man, art vs photo. My walking nightmare.

Memoir is available at tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com

Yaaaaay!!!!

Cowboy Bebop's Faye Valentine by artists Tess Fowler and Chris Gutierrez

Mail call: Faye Girly, accompanied by Ed, Ein, and the Swordfish, by @tessfowler.bsky.social and @chrisgutierrez.bsky.social 6"x6" watercolor WOW!

I cant find it to repost. Dang!! I'm sorry. With Chris and I both running this page I miss stuff.

I missed this!! Oh my gosh!

Thank you for saying that. I was so worried the book wouldn't make sense. And I haven't gotten a lot of feedback. But what I've received has been 100% across the board supportive and many have said it made them feel seen. I'm so thankful anyone has read it at all. Your words mean so much.