#dozerdraws

Garfield #2 by Ryan Estrada, Brinson Thieme, Axur Eneas and Dozerdraws. Cover by JJ Harrison. Variant cover by Crystal Kung. Out in September.

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Former best friends Dylan Render and Leighton Worthington attempt to successfully navigate their way through a summer camp for troubled youth. They both need a good evaluation at the camp. Otherwise, they’ll be sent away, unable to attend high school with their friends. While participating in camp activities and chores, Dylan and Leighton rexamine the events that led up to the incident that sent them to camp, the incident that threatens their futures and their friendship with each other.

Dozerdraws

See Dozerdraws’s existing works here and here.

Preferred contact methods: Email: [email protected]

Preferred organizations: - Anything from the list of approved organizations

Will create works that contain: fluff, kissing, all kinds of tender scenes, hurt + comfort, AUs are okay, angst too

Will not create works that contain: nsfw

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Auction ID: 1107

Will create works for the following relationships: Nick Fury & Talos - Any Universe Jack Russell-centric - Any Universe Jack Russell/Any - Any Universe Talos/Any - Any Universe Bucky Barnes/Helmut Zemo - Any Universe Peter Parker/Wade Wilson - Any Universe Loki/Mobius - Any Universe Jack Russell/Ted Sallis - Any Universe Donald Pierce-centric - X-Men movieverse Donald Pierce/X-24 - X-Men movieverse

Work Description: Bidding starts at $25 which would be equivalent to a half body sketched drawing of a single character. $30 for a fullbody sketch. + $15 for an additional character + $10 for added colors (per character) Lineart starts at $40 for half body/$50 for fullbody + $30 for an additional character Fully inked and colored art starts at $80 half body/$100 fullbody +$70 for an additional character Backgrounds are an extra $20-40 depending on complexity.

Ratings: Gen, Teen, Mature

Can pods bid on this auction? Yes - Podbids welcome!

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After a life altering incident, Dylan and Leighton are sent to a summer camp for troubled youth. Can Dylan and Leighton save their friendship and protect their future while trying to survive camp?

Paper Planes by Jennie Wood and Dozerdraws, lettering by Micah Myers

there are so many things to like about this graphic novel! the art is very charming and clear--i especially love the way flashbacks have a slightly muted color palette--and the story really embraces complications of modern queer adolescence that i feel like i wasn't seeing in comics for kids back when i was bookselling 10-ish years ago. (the publisher rates this one as for "all audiences," and it definitely has enough substance for grownup readers, but personally i would shelve it with middle grade.) i love the way we get so much story through interspersed flashbacks, doling out information and building up to how these two characters ended up in the present being awkward around each other at camp they don't seem to have chosen. there's a little bit of mystery, interpersonal drama, and the really lovely throughline of the paper planes connecting Dylan and Leighton and then further connecting them to the people around them.

also it's great to see so much ordinary diversity! queer diversity for sure, but also diversity of bodies, of class, and of race, all in that perfect space between "looking diverse without addressing any issue directly" and "addressing every possible issue with the most fraught language and anxiety possible." the characters and their lives and identities feel real and specific, and it pleases me to no end that though Dylan and Leighton each struggle with how their queer identities (nonbinary and asexual, respectively) are received or suppressed by others, they have very few qualms about these identities within themselves--they're both frank and sure about who they are and what they feel.

and that's something else i loved about this book: nobody is only one thing. nobody makes only bad choices or good choices, is only accepting or only biased, and in the end every relationship is in a place of tenuous connection that feels very true to how people grow, and how relationships shift and change. all in all, this was a great read!

the deets

how i read it: an e-galley from NetGalley! i think this is the first time i've read a graphic novel galley, and though digital is not my preferred mode for art-heavy things, it worked well enough. i will likely pick up a physical copy when it comes out!

try this if you: like a good queer bildungsroman, appreciate non-chronological storytelling, dig a nuanced look at that weird summer between middle school and high school, or ever got in big trouble with your best friend.

a panel i really liked: this first one has real Somewhere Out There energy to me

bonus: i love this background kid at camp who looks like me and also hates math, i see you honey