This book, a Field Notes edition with a highway arrow on the cover, started out as a meandering doodle collection, and probably would have stayed that way were in not for an online collaboration with my cousin. I sent her a scan of an unfinished page from the series, she converted it into a rather grumpy looking king, and from there, it took off quickly.
While the images have commonalities with characters from Game of Throne and other common fantasy adventure tropes, they're also obviously a reference to the brand of politics we Americans have been through in the Trump era. The exit arrows remain as an exorcism, and an admonition to all tinpot would be authoritarians to Get Out and Stay Out. Here's hoping it works.