By two Vietnamese adoptees, Bert Ballard & Jessica Emmett.
Welcome to Adopted the Comic. This short project ran from 2009-2013 and has now come to an end as Bert & Jess turn towards other projects. By popular demand, the website and Facebook page will be left up as a resource and platform for comments, but it will have very minimal activity from us. Comics can still be linked or used (more info HERE). Bert & Jess would like to thank everyone for the amazing support they had throughout the project. See our final post HERE. Jess continues to do adoption comics now and then on her new comic Stray Thoughts Comics HERE.
This was going on when I was a little kid – when all the experts encouraged our adoptive parents to let us know other adoptees. I’m 50 now – and in my memoir I wrote that it was one of those other little adoptees who totally skewed my thinking about my “real” family. Not that ignorance is bliss, but how do you compare such an individualized experience. It’s like getting my daughters together with other Asians just because they’re Asian…thoughts to ponder. Thanks for the strip.
I generally feel like that when meeting people anyway! I guess I’m just not that social
This was going on when I was a little kid – when all the experts encouraged our adoptive parents to let us know other adoptees. I’m 50 now – and in my memoir I wrote that it was one of those other little adoptees who totally skewed my thinking about my “real” family. Not that ignorance is bliss, but how do you compare such an individualized experience. It’s like getting my daughters together with other Asians just because they’re Asian…thoughts to ponder. Thanks for the strip.
Would it be okay if I used your comic in a blog post I’m working on?