The Magazine for Youth with LGBT Parents

Kids

Leanne Franson

Dear Santa: Would You Please Date My Father?

Author

Lucía Moreno Velo likes to read stories that make her heart race. And this is exactly the kind of stories she wants to write. She hopes Rebecca’s story made your heart beat faster. Lucia moved a lot as a kid. She went to three different elementary schools and four different high schools!

Illustrator

Leanne Franson draws the "Rosen'Blue and Sassafras" comic every month, and has also illustrated many stories for Rainbow Rumpus. In 2012, Leanne moved from Montreal back to the Saskatchewan prairies where she grew up. She draws comics and illustrations from her home studio on her acreage in Martensville, which she shares with her son Benjamin Taotao, and her two cats, Asterix and Méménou.