Donovan is a graphic designer by trade and has done stand-up comedy, so it was only natural that her first medium — comics — combined those skills. Her debut comic, created in December 2018, was a light-hearted but impactful comparison between the straightforward way some people share stories (beginning to end), versus how Donovan does it: a roundabout labyrinth of a flow chart with prologues and off-topic tangents.
Donovan was nervous to share the comic on social media, but a friend encouraged her to post it on Twitter, which felt safest because Donovan didn't have much of a following at the time. Little did they know the relatable comic would immediately go viral across social media platforms, amassing 25 million views on Facebook within two days, Donovan remembered.
It was a shock to her. "I didn't put a watermark or anything on it because I wasn't planning on making more," she recalled. "It really took off." Reading the comment section helped her see that she was speaking to a community often kept silent.