On Loving Women is a collection of stories about coming out, first love, and sexual identity by Diane Obomsawin. With this work, Obomsawin brings her gaze to bear on subjects closer to home — her friends' and lovers' personal accounts of realizing they're gay or first finding love with another woman. Each story is a master class in reaching the emotional truth of a situation with the simplest means possible. Her stripped-down pages use the bare minimum of linework to expressively reveal heartbreak, joy, irritation, and fear.

On Loving Women focuses primarily on adolescence — crushes on high school teachers, awkwardness on first dates — but also addresses much deeper-seated difficulties of being out: fears of rejection and of not being who others want one to be. Within these pages, Obomsawin has forged a poignant, powerful narrative that speaks to the difficulties of coming out and the joys of being loved. (From Drawn & Quarterly)