Page 1 rough draft with ink. Every night would end like this. Promise to meet up the next day and so on. Off they would drive to their houses and on i would go down the road

It's illegal to sleep in public in a lot of cities in California. In Huntington Beach, they give you tickets for sleeping in public, demand that you appear in court and sometimes put in you jail. The first week of being homeless was the hardest, just trying to find a safe and hidden place to sleep, then waking up before the cops do their sweeps. The first night that I had a blanket I overslept and got caught...

In the water

In the middle of all that chaos, the ocean provided a safe hiding place

The beginning of the end of working at starbuck's

bumming it in HB

Getting up at 4:30 am to avoid getting caught by the beach patrol

Bolsa Chica service road

trying to get motivated

what I'm going to try to do

It's empty now but over time hopefully a graphic novel will slowly start to come to life over this page. Feedback is welcome.

The beginning- After I lost my house this is where i ended up sleeping for nine months. How could you sleep on the floor in a public bathroom? Well it had a toilet, a roof, and the door locked.