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The Year I Sat On My Butt at Home and Cried Watching Livestreams of Occupy Wall Street

A comic by Maré Odomo about being an observer of the Occupy movement.

12.15.11


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Maré Odomo is an illustrator and cartoonist, best known for his Pokémon fan comic Letters to an Absent Father. He likes Twitter and Tumblr.

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