Breena Nuñez

Published on August 1, 2022 on The New Yorker: Daily Shouts section.

After looking through pictures of newborns babies in these fancy photo shoots, I tried to imagine what would my child look like when they emerge into this world.

The first and last time we’ll be having burgers for dinner.

A short experimental memoir comic about understanding why I imagined myself being a photographer, but found myself being in love with memoir and diary comics.

This piece was commissioned in January of 2021 by an LGBTQIA organization based in Guatemala known as Visibles, that explores the queer voices from Central America. You can read the Spanish version of the comic right here.

This is what it looks like when I go outside for a coffee.

Comic strip was published online through The New Yorker Daily Shouts on June 4, 2021.

This comic was one of the prizes for the extra tier for the Mañana: Latinx Comics From the 25th Century Kickstarter campaign during Spring of 2021.

A journalism comic dedicated to Black History Month. You can read the rest of the story through The Nib’s website.

What it’s been like to start my days during quarantine.

Originally published on The New Yorker: Daily Shouts.

Originally published in the New Yorker Daily Shouts.

A short scene that starts off with me sifting through family photos and recalling meeting my Salvadoran grandmother for the first time.

This is some work in progress from my master’s thesis for the MFA in Comics program at California College of the Arts. What you’re reading is a snippet of a larger project that will turn into my first graphic memoir titled, “Morena”. This is based on the first time I traveled to El Salvador to find answers about my Salvadoran heritage after years of distancing myself from this part of my identity due to myths created by the U.S. media and among others outside of the Salvadoran community.

A little compilation between two zine projects Being Half Guatemalan and Being Half Salvi that are combined into one series titled Half and Half. This collection of autobio comic strips gives you a sneak peek into my life as an Afrolatinx person within the Central American isthmus in the Bay Area.

A three page story that succinctly describes how I internalize street harassment. I attempted to summarize these multiple encounters from my past and present with men who do come from the same ethnic enclaves I come from. The overall feeling from being cat called or forced to embrace a predator is to make me feel like I don’t have ownership of my body. As someone who feels emotions very deeply it does take me a long time to recover and to regain a sense of power and agency; my hope is that survivors give themselves permission to remember that healing from sexual trauma requires patience, love, and time.

Originally published as a zine (2018)

Originally published as a zine (2018)

From There to Here is a comic strip series where I talk about my reactions to different experiences affecting Central Americans within current events based in the United States.

Originally published on The Baylies, curated by Lawrence Lindell.

This mini-comic addresses some complicated feelings with the Christian church as a queer person of color. However, I do draw inspiration from certain historical figures and moments in the Christian religion that remind me that it’s ok to have a complex relationship with the religion you were raised in.

This comic was a commissioned by CultureStrike and in collaboration with Familia Trans Queer Liberation Movement, End Family Detention, Families for Freedom, and NWDC Resistance in 2016. I received a letter of a young woman migrant woman who was held in a detention at Karnes County “Correctional” Center; she expressed the hope she had with entering into the United States but immediately felt the lack of humanity after being held captive and processed by ICE.

An ongoing series about Bi (aka Bianca) who is discovering a little bit of themselves in the City of Oakland. They’re trying to understand their own gender while breaking out of their shell on the dating scene. You can purchase a copy of the first issue through my Etsy store.