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M.H. Cali
@mhcaliwrites.com
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Award Nominated Writer of both Comics & Novels. Queer heroines and badass characters with heart are my jam.
Founder & Manager of @42fold.studio
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Feel like reading a story about badass yet soft lesbians who went through the apocalypse together? 💗

You can pre-order your copy until the end of the month + grab this gorgeous variant cover by @alterici.bsky.social ✨

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Variant cover of Back To Earth by Natasha Alterici. Sasha and Leora are sharing a soft moment where Leora gently brushes her hand on the side of Sasha’s face who has her eyes close. They are surrounded by flowers abd pastel colors.
August 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Back To Earth is up for pre-order until the end of August (before it's sent to print)!✨

@kejart.bsky.social & I had lots of fun creating this sapphic graphic novel about badass yet soft lesbians who lived through the apocalypse together. Maybe you'd also like reading their story!

🌺Pre-Order Now
Comic page pencilled by Ines, Inked and colored by Kej. Three vertical panels show Sasha and Leora share a sweet moment under the puring rain. 'Believe in yourself, Sash," Leora says against her lips. "Believe in us," she adds before Sasha looks down as if slightly defeated.
July 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Once upon a time I wrote a sapphic story about love, loss & revenge.

It was my first comics (I grew a lot since) and I collaborated with a bunch of awesome creators so it’ll always be special to me💖

Art by @lanedraws.bsky.social @stollcomics.bsky.social Grace Desmarais & @vaincity.bsky.social
Progressive zoom in on Akemi looking distressed until she screams “MIA!” Comic page by Lane Lloyd of The Fury, The Maelstrom, and The Kiwi of Akemi battling Ted until he falls from a cliff into the ocean. Action sequence. Comic page by Dave Stoll of The Fury, The Maelstrom, and The Kiwi of Akemi walking away from a car on fire. Comic page by Grace Desmarais of The Fury, The Maelstrom, and The Kiwi of Daniela preparing a poison mixture. Six panels of chemistry prep.
July 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Other judges might see/define fair use differently in their courts, but this sets a very dangerous precendent…

Being a creative in this timeline sucks 😑 Please encourage human creators who you know don’t use the plagiarism machine✨ That’s how we save our humanity
June 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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The Back To Earth sticker sheets by @vervayn.bsky.social have arrived! They look amazing in person✨
Back to Earth milestone sticker sheets comprised of 12 total stickers inspired by the universe: 12k design: Sasha and Leora facing each other with a star in the middle 11k design: a robot helmet with a bird on it 10k design: vintage TV with plants growing around it 9k design: Leora’s portrait with her head split in two by a wave 8k design: a hand picking up berries 7k design: Flying owl 6k design: sequoia with pine cone illustrated as 2 comics panels split horizontally 5k design: two hands holding each other by their pinky fingers 4k design: Side view of Sasha 3k: Sasha’s backpack with Twinkle 2k design: a wind chime made of robots remains 1k design: a cyborg’s arm floating in water
June 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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It’s a wrap!! The Back To Earth campaign has ended. It funded + crushed through 2/3 of stretch goals!

We couldn’t have done any of it without you. THANK YOU for believing in us and wanting to read about lesbians in love in a post-apocalyptic world💖

We can’t wait for y’all to meet Sasha & Leora!✨
Chibi doodle by the amazing Inea depicting Sasha and Leora
May 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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26 hours before these gorgeous posters by @jaws-stone.bsky.social @fellhound.bsky.social @theartofemilia.bsky.social @emilyschnall.bsky.social disappear forever!

@alterici.bsky.social’s & @lianakangas.com’s to be unveiled

Get them + our sapphic graphic novel!

🌺 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Jaws Stone art. Two women dressed in comfy yet practical clothes are tenderly holding each other while boring softly in each other’s eyes. The sky behind them has an orange hue a la Blade Runner 2049 reminescent of the light getting through dense pollution Emilia Strilchuk exclusive print. Two women are sitting atop the remains of a futuristic looking car in front of a destroyed building from which some seedlings, moss, and vegetation can be seen growing again. One of the women is leaning onto the other as if to give her comfort. Art by Fell Hound. Two women (Sasha and Leora) holding hands in a field of flowers and tall grass. The sky is a bright blue with clouds shuffling by. Sasha is wearing a bomber jacket, cropped too and jeans while Leora is wearing her one suit tied at her waist with a sports bra. Sasha is replacing a strand of hair behind her ear while looking softly and reflectively at Leora. Art by Emily Schnall. Two women embracing each other lovingly while about to kiss. One is looking into the other’s eyes intensely mesmerized as she dips to close the gap and capture her lips.
May 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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26 hours left to get your copy of our sapphic post-apocalyptic graphic novel + any exclusives you might want!

Like those amazing stickers by @vervayn.bsky.social for all backers! Once the clock runs out, they’re gone!

Get your set! 📚💙🌈 #comics

🌺 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
12k design: half faces of Sasha and Leora staring at each other with a star in the middle 11k design: an old retro TV taken over by vegetation 10k design: a robot’s head taken over by vegetation and a bird is sitting on top. 9k design: Leora 8k design: a hand picking up berries 7k design: Flying owl 6k design: sequoia with pine cone illustrated as 2 comics panels split horizontally 5k design: two hands holding each other by their pinky fingers 4k design: Side view of Sasha 3k: Sasha’s backpack with Twinkle 2k design: a wind chime made of robots remains 1k design: a cyborg’s arm floating in water
May 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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If you look at @kejart.bsky.social pages & find them stunning like I do, I just wanted to say that we only have ONE original page left available!

Backer picks the page they want from the whole GN.

Only 70 hours left to grab a copy of the book (& maybe a page!)

🌺 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
May 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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The gorgeous exclusive stickers by @vervayn.bsky.social ✨
12k design: half faces of Sasha and Leora staring at each other with a star in the middle 11k design: an old retro TV taken over by vegetation 10k design: a robot’s head taken over by vegetation and a bird is sitting on top. 9k design: Leora 8k design: a hand picking up berries 7k design: Flying owl 6k design: sequoia with pine cone illustrated as 2 comics panels split horizontally 5k design: two hands holding each other by their pinky fingers 4k design: Side view of Sasha 3k: Sasha’s backpack with Twinkle 2k design: a wind chime made of robots remains 1k design: a cyborg’s arm floating in water
May 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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These are some of the amazing exclusive prints by @jaws-stone.bsky.social @theartofemilia.bsky.social @fellhound.bsky.social @emilyschnall.bsky.social ✨

@alterici.bsky.social & @lianakangas.com illustrations to be revealed later😊
Jaws Stone Art. Two women dressed in comfy yet practical clothes are tenderly holding each other while boring softly in each other’s eyes. The sky behind them has an orange hue a la Blade Runner 2049 reminescent of the light getting through dense pollution Emilia Strilchuk Art. Two women are sitting atop the remains of a futuristic looking car in front of a destroyed building from which some seedlings, moss, and vegetation can be seen growing again. One of the women is leaning onto the other as if to give her comfort. Art by Fell Hound. Two women (Sasha and Leora) holding hands in a field of flowers and tall grass. The sky is a bright blue with clouds shuffling by. Sasha is wearing a bomber jacket, cropped too and jeans while Leora is wearing her one suit tied at her waist with a sports bra. Sasha is replacing a strand of hair behind her ear while looking softly and reflectively at Leora. Art by Emily Schnall. Two women embracing each other lovingly while about to kiss. One is looking into the other’s eyes intensely mesmerized as she dips to close the gap and capture her lips.
May 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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If you’d like to get your own copy of this stunning illustration by the amazing @fellhound.bsky.social 💖, we are offering it as an exclusive for our campaign 📚💙🌈

Grab it (& a copy of our sapphic post-apocalyptic graphic novel!) while you still can😊

4 days left!

🌺 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Two women (Sasha and Leora) holding hands in a field of flowers and tall grass. The sky is a bright blue with clouds shuffling by. Sasha is wearing a bomber jacket, cropped too and jeans while Leora is wearing her one suit tied at her waist with a sports bra. Sasha is replacing a strand of hair behind her ear while looking softly and reflectively at Leora.
May 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Until The End Of Time
2025
By @jaws-stone.bsky.social 💖

If you’d fancy getting your own copy of this gorgeous illustration of our lesbian couple, we are offering it as an exclusive for the Back To Earth campaign 📚💙🌈

Grab it while you still can😊
5 days left!

🌺 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Art by Jaws Stone. Two women dressed in comfy yet practical clothes are tenderly holding each other while boring softly in each other’s eyes. The sky behind them has an orange hue a la Blade Runner 2049 reminescent of the light getting through dense pollution
May 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Only $507 USD ($710 CAD) left to reach our funding goal!!!

You guys are amazing🥲

Let’s get this sapphic post-apocalyptic graphic novel full of lesbian love funded, shall we?✨

For the occasion, I have to share @jaws-stone.bsky.social gorgeous piece again💗

🌺 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Art by Jaws Stone. Two women dressed in comfy yet practical clothes are tenderly holding each other while boring softly in each other’s eyes. The sky behind them has an orange hue a la Blade Runner 2049 reminescent of the light getting through dense pollution
May 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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These might be sold out, but we are now offering it as a digital Add-On! You can grab the PDF exclusively as part of our campaign💙📚🌈

This way⤵️

🌺 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

In case you wonder if it’s up your alley, here’s what @skyepatridge.bsky.social & Elsa Charretier had to say about it
“What would you have to lose to reach your breaking point? Your darkest impulses threatening to consume you, hands hungry for retaliation. How far would you go to deliver retribution?   This is not a story of redemption, of good triumphing over evil. But rather a sprint to meet the darkness at the edges of our limits. When only sinners remain, it’s a race to cast the final stone. Gripped by the ghost of a love story cut short, this is a story of revenge. Brooding, fast-paced, and darkly appetizing, THE FURY, THE KIWI & THE MAELSTROM is an exciting and impulsive tale of meeting your breaking point head-on.” - Skylar Patridge M.H. is one of those people you cannot say no to. People with such a genuine and infectious love for comics and art that you get swept up in it and agree to do an illustration for their Kickstarter when in fact you have no time for it. Agree to write an introduction when in fact you do not like writing introductions.  Because how to say no to a writer that's giving it their all to get their stories out into the world? To a team of creatives that's giving a year and a half of their lives so that we, supporters of this ambitious collective endeavour, get to read their deep, most intimate thoughts about love and loss?  You don't. You say yes, and you marvel at the character design work that you're lucky enough to interpret. You cheer on as they reach their crowdfunding goal. You read the full story and are stunned by the full array of incredibly promising talents M.H. has brought along for the ride. You write the introduction, and know, just know, there will be more covers and introductions to write in the future.  Because M.H. is just getting started. - Elsa Charretier
May 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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@kejart.bsky.social, we’re getting there!

Can we really do it?!👀 10k today?🥲

🌺 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
A SAPPHIC, POST-APOCALYPTIC GRAPHIC NOVEL Back To Earth - A Sapphic Post-Apocalyptic Graphic Novel A world that fell over the edge. A hostile wasteland cloaked in peculiarity. Yet, Sasha and Leora's bond is stronger than extinction. Join us on this tale about the aftermath of a big collapse, and how a sliver of hope might be all Sasha has left. C$9,832 of C$12,000 151 backers 10 days left
May 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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80% funded! GUYS! We can do it🥲 We’re so closeeee. In a world of techbros, thank you for encouraging the indie little guys #comics

Help us bring more lesbian love to the world in graphic novel form😌 We love those characters & can’t wait for you to meet them 📚💙🌈

🌺 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Sasha and Leora holding hands as they walk. Sasha has a backpack with a small plushie star clipped on it, jeans and a short coat. Leora has a sports bra, the top of her one-piece tied at her waist. Sasha says “One could say the Earth cleansed itself.”
May 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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It’s much easier to break things than to build them.

Well, here’s how Sasha & Leora start back from scratch after the apocalypse. A sapphic love story for the ages!

If that sounds like a comics you want to read, maybe consider backing it?☺️ Funding is so close🥲

🌺 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Landscape of mountains with a flooded futuristic city now surrounded by lush vegetation all around it. A severed cyborg arm is resting atop rocks and a small bird is looking over the scenery Comic page of Sasha and Leora in the pouring rain embracing each other while Sasha is doubting everything. Leora reassures her. “Believe in yourself, Sash,” she says. “Believe in us,” she adds in a murmur against her lips.
May 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Sapphic Sunday✨

Meet our two lovebirds Sasha & Leora! They are stuck in a post-apocalyptic world but who cares? They scream couple goals!

Help us bring their story to the world? We’re so close to our goal

💓art by @jaws-stone.bsky.social offered as an exclusive

🌺 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Art by Jaws Stone. Two women dressed in comfy yet practical clothes are tenderly holding each other while boring softly in each other’s eyes. The sky behind them has an orange hue a la Blade Runner 2049 reminescent of the light getting through dense pollution
May 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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What you can expect from Back To Earth

🌈 Queer graphic novel
🌆 Post-apocalyptic
💗 Lesbian love
✨ Lots of feels
🌌 Beauty through the chaos
🤖 Dead robots
🌎 How does the world end? Here's our take on it!

Join us to bring Sasha & Leora's story to the world!

🌺 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Sample page by Kej showing Sasha and Leora pre-apocalypse clubbing, dancing, kissing and then getting frisky.
May 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Fun fact about our sapphic post-apocalyptic graphic novel campaign Back To Earth:

Did you know we unlock cool stickers by @vervayn.bsky.social free for everyone at each milestone toward our goal?!👀

Plus, our prices are in CAD. Great deal for 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇬🇧!

🌺 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
9k unlocks a new design! Sketch showing what it will roughly look like: Leora’s portrait with her head split in two by a wave 8k design: a hand picking up berries 7k design: Flying owl 6k design: sequoia with pine cone illustrated as 2 comics panels split horizontally 5k design: two hands holding each other by their pinky fingers 4k design: Side view of Sasha 3k: Sasha’s backpack with Twinkle 2k design: a wind chime made of robots remains 1k design: a cyborg’s arm floating in water
May 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Join us to bring this badass (& sweet!) lesbian couple's story full of sapphic love to life!✨

💗 Illustration by @jaws-stone.bsky.social (it's gorgeous & I have to post it a thousand times so everyone sees it!) also offered as a limited print for the campaign📚💙🌈

🌺 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Art by Jaws Stone. Two women dressed in comfy yet practical clothes are tenderly holding each other while boring softly in each other’s eyes. The sky behind them has an orange hue a la Blade Runner 2049 reminescent of the light getting through dense pollution
May 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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14 days to go. 70% funded. 120 backers. Thank you for all the support!!💖

Let's keep this going so we can hopefully also get that stretch goal variant cover by @tulalotay.bsky.social! We'd really love to see what she'd come up with. We're pretty sure you as well!

🌺 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Banner text: Locked. Tula Lotay Variant Cover Option for all physical pledges at $9,500 USD ($13,520 CAD)! In the background, crop of the cover by Kej. A woman with dark hair, comfy/tactical clothing, and a backpack with a small star keychain is looking reflectively around her at the lush vegetation she wasn’t used to see before The Fall.
May 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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70% funded🎉

Let’s keep it going & get this post-apocalyptic graphic novel about a fierce & tenderhearted lesbian couple into the world!

Sasha & Leora are very special to us & we think you might fall in love with them as well

Plus: nature, robots, chaos, hope!

🌺 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Cover by Kej. A woman with dark hair, comfy/tactical clothing, and a backpack with a small star keychain is looking reflectively around her at the lush vegetation she wasn’t used to see before The Fall.
April 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Look at our soft yet badass lesbian couple Sasha & Leora in this super pretty piece by @emilyschnall.bsky.social!

Added to all Budding tiers & higher as soon as we get funded

Join us for this sapphic post-apocalyptic graphic novel full of love & dead robots!💙📚🌈

🌺 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Two women embracing each other lovingly while about to kiss. One is looking into the other’s eyes intensely mesmerized as she dips to close the gap and capture her lips.
April 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM