Paper Karma

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everyone SHOULD make a zine too, you will feel so good about it ♡ it's about putting the power of production into the hands of the people! also you don't have to sell it or anything, you can just make one for yourself or trade/give some to friends!

i really love julia grofrer's guide to analogue self publishing aka making zines on 8.5x11 paper

and jaydragon/jdragsky's thread on staple's self serve print centres (if you're area does not have a local print shop, they probably have a staples or fedex print centre)

if you can't draw, here is twitter thread for public domain art and also a mini summary of when thing enter creative commons (generally 70 years after artist death in the US and CAD)

i also have a DIY zine page on my art blog that i am dedicated to updating as i find more resources! (not accessible through tumblr mobile app, mobile friendly, just open the link in a browser)

Swim Thru Fire, written by Annie Mok and drawn by me, has finished its run on Hazlitt. You can now read the entire comic:

part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8.

Something Bigger

A quick little comic I did as part of The Response, a group of cartoonists talking about and making work about various social issues. This time, it was Charleston.

Here’s my entry for Gamera vs. Zine-Ra, the 50th Anniversary Gamera zine. You still have time to submit - submissions close on July 1st! See the full details here!

some photos of the interior of Weeping Flower, Grows in Darkness

I created this short  narrative a couple months ago, but I finally feel ready to share it with you. Despite its length, making this was a laborious process and took me quite some time to put together.

(media: charcoal, graphite and digital)

This story is personal to me, but you can interpret it whatever way you please. 

 Bernadette the Brave

Bernadette gets lost and scared in a crowd when life is too much. She imagines that the swarms of people around are a forest of trees to cope.

As she walks through the imagined trees, she sees they all have unique faces like the people in the crowd.

Bernadette comes across one in particular with a doorknob. It beacons to her with a golden light. She opens the face and climbs inside.

There she finds a golden world. 

This world is wonderous, as if it was made just for Bernadette. It is a place of serenity, safety curiosity, and beauty. 

However, back in the forest of faces, danger awaits. Another has found his way into Bernadette’s mind. The danger wields an axe and finds the tree with the golden world. 

As he takes his axe to Bernadette’s tree, everything within her world splits, including her body. But from her body comes the source of the golden light. Bernadette holds the power to fight back.

This is your world. You may be small, and It’s okay to be afraid.  But know that when fear is crippling and invades your heart, you hold the ultimate power to fight back and conquer. 

Check out the longer comic 'The Darkness Presses' for a psychological horror or any of her shorter comics for a quick trick fix. My personal favorite is 'His Face All Red', a spooky story sure keep you up all night.

enjoy.

In celebration of Yumi Sakugawa's show in Austin with Foxing Quarterly this week, we have added two of her original Post-it art pieces to our Kickstarter’s rewards. Get yours before it’s gone!

Sneak peek! Professor Bootsy’s new book debuts at SPX this weekend in Washington DC. Can you DIG it? We KNEW that you COULD!

Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor

Made for

Comics Workbook Composition Competition 2014

Let’s get naked!

“We need women’s bodies in our stories, having sex and getting our periods and eating food and doing whatever bodies do, so that the things our bodies do are normalized and present — so that boys don’t grow up thinking women are gross or whores or pigs or any other horrible epithet.” —Lucy Knisley

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