About

Human Resources is a dystopic science-fiction murder mystery comic set in the near-ish future, when much of North America is under water and coastal cities have built levees taller than skyscrapers to protect themselves from a drastically altered planet. It’s got everything you want and everything you need: a hero whose genitals were dissolved by a fungal network in a drug deal gone bad (and she doesn’t want them back), her artificially intelligent parole officer that lives in a solid-state drive behind her ear, and a phony yoga instructor who wants to steal your healthcare. 

It’s also just a new adult story about one hurt, confused woman and the people she hurts. It’s got bad breakups, worse sex, and an unhappy ending. 

Here’s a one-line trailer:

Maria Saintilien is dragged back to her hometown when she hears her one-time boyfriend is being framed for murder. But it’s a race against time–will she find him before the reality TV cops, whose producers are desperate to cover up a much more dangerous truth? Can she trust the yoga teacher who says he wants to help? And in the end, will she be able to escape with her freedom? More importantly, will she be able to live with what she had to do to get it?

Three Cashew is a cartoonist, writer, and artist. She believes in empathy, education, and empowerment. She thinks environmental justice requires intersectionality, capitalism only serves those already in power, and that we should read more and spend more time listening to those without power and privilege.

She tries to be a better person than she was the day before.

She writes about bodies (particularly female ones), gender, sex, and climate change.

“Three Cashew” was a name given to her by an algorithm. She was surprised at how much she resonated with it, immediately and enduringly. She does have a “real” name. She really does. And she has a life outside of comics. And she’d like to tell you about it here, but thinks that for the time being at least, she won’t. It’s not that she wishes to remain anonymous. It’s because she wants to recreate herself here, give herself permission to say and do the things she has chosen not to in her “real” life. Three Cashew is louder, prouder, and more vulnerable than her other self. Maybe one day the two can meet and merge. That’s the goal. But for now, in this place, she’s just Three Cashew.