• Cover: A smiling child with pink hair looks out at a pink and purple whimsical city from the balcony of a tall tower with stained glass windows. Behind her is a pink elevated train and below her there is a sign that says: The Great Crater City of Crescentia. The comic title Crescentia is in the upper left of the image, with the names Alina Wahab and Laura Romano below it.
  • Sample Page 1: Two characters converse in an apartment at night. In the first panel, seeing only the tops of their heads, the character on the left speaks. Her lines carry over to the next panel, showing her sitting by the window at a party talking to a character with their back turned. Her name is Emma and has tan skin, dyed blonde curly hair, and green eyes wearing an orange dress. She says: “Right! Meg says you’re new to town! How you liking it so far?” The other character, Phoebe, responds, “Oh!” The th
  • Sample Page 2: The convo from the previous page carries over in dialogue while the panels show a flashback to Phoebe as a child. In the first panel, the Emma asks, “You just knew this was the place for you?” and we see young Phoebe playing a space-themed game on a handheld gaming device in the backseat of a car. In the second panel, the Phoebe responds, “Kinda.” and we see the girl losing the game and tossing it to the side, looking out the window. In the third panel, Emma responds, “Kinda?” and we see youn
  • Sample Page 3: In the first panel, young Phoebe, or YP, now has pink hair and stands proudly in front of a colorful bakery called Bake Goodness. Phoebe continues to narrate from the party and says, “I had it all planned out. I was going to own a bakery…” In the second panel, YP cheerfully hands over a bag to a customer from behind the counter of the bakery. In the third panel, YP puts baked goods into a bag and Phoebe says, “… but because I was a confused junior feminist, I thought baking bread was sexist…
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Laura Romano, Alina Wahab

Crescentia

Crescentia

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At a housewarming party, a young woman reminisces about the fantastical moon city she dreamt up as a child.

Phoebe's coming of age story explores the relationship between imagination and reality... and yeah, it's also kind of about fruit juice faucets and stealing bread for "feminist reasons."

This ten page comic drawn by Alina Wahab and written by Laura Romano was originally featured in The City We Chose anthology. The anthology, edited by Kavita Balsara, Emily Stewart, and Allison Bannister, was published by Toronto Comix in 2024 after a successful crowdfunding campaign.

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Laura Romano

Laura Romano is a writer, script reader, and social media manager. Her work often falls into the speculative, slice of life, coming of age, and horror genres. Her recent projects include Crescentia, a coming of age comic about a fantastical moon city, and An Open Window, a speculative slice of life game about being trapped in a room with a mysterious feeling.

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Alina Wahab

Alina Wahab is a comic artist and illustrator from India, currently living and working in Aotearoa. Their work is inspired by themes of queer desire, nostalgia, and femininity. Their work has been published in a number of comic anthologies including Succulent, Sharp Wit and the Company of Women, The City We Chose, and Nectar. Her current desi-sapphic erotic webcomic Don't Pass Me By can be read on FilthyFigments.com.

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