(W/A/CA) Lawrence Lindell <b>Black, weird, awkward and proud of it. Welcome to the club!</b><BR><BR>Tired of feeling like you don?t belong? Join the club. It?s called the Section. You?d think a spot to chill, chat, and find community would be much easier to come by for nerdy, queer punks. But when four longtime, bookish BFFs?Lika, Amor, Lala, and Tony?can?t find what they need, they take matters into their own hands and create a space where they can be a hundred percent who they are: Black, queer, and weird.<BR><BR>The group puts a call out for all awkward Black folks to come on down to the community center to connect. But low attendance and IRL run-ins with trolls of all kinds only rock everybody with anxiety. As our protagonists start to question the merits of their vision, a lifetime of insecurities?about not being good enough or Black enough?bubbles to the surface. Will they find a way to turn it around in time for their radical brainchild, the Blackward Zine Fest?<BR><BR>Lawrence Lindell?s characters pop from the page in playful Technicolor. From mental health to romance, micr

(W/A/CA) Lawrence Lindell When you’re always searching, you might just surprise yourself with what you find After a rocky attempt at living in London with his partner, Lawrence finds himself single, broke, and back at home in Compton with his mom and great-aunt, moping from bed to kitchen table and back to bed again, with long layovers on the front porch to sit and watch the world pass him by. Everything had been so good—a degree, an animation internship, paid music gigs, the perfect girl. How the heck did Lawrence get knocked so far down, with such little semblance of his former life remaining to hold him together? Well, that’s a long story… Set to a cacophonous soundtrack of church praise, playground noise, bus-stop camaraderie, and Pacific Ocean waves, Lawrence Lindell’s heartbreaking—and heartwarming—We All Got Something recounts a tragic and random act of violence, the PTSD that follows, lost love, and coming to terms with the underlying mental health crises sabotaging it all. A testament to the healing power of art and the vital role community plays in the process, Lindell’s gr