Derpserker

Here is the 8 page story “War/Love” from my Not For Prophet zine.  The zine also contained another 12 pages or so of sketches which I need to post at some point.

I made this story for fun between projects.  It’s funny because I was actually working on  my science fiction romance story for Speculative Relationships: Volume 2 (Kickstarting now BTW, please take a look!) while finishing this up.  I was using this story as kind of a playground for ideas I had about romance comics, which eventually informed a lot of what i’m doing for Speculative Relationships.

In a perfect world, this story was actually supposed to be more like 20 pages and I’d have been able to color it and yadda yadda yadda.  But it was a super fun fan comic that allowed me to also meditate on the things I love about the Prophet relaunch (the metaphors in the story are pretty thinly veiled) and put my own spin on the Prophet+Yilala relationship (a small part of the book that I always wanted more of).

Also I wanted to say that Brandon, Simon, Farel, Joseph, and all the Prophet team that I met and handed the zine too at ECCC were super awesome about it and I really appreciated that.  And big thanks to them for making great comics.  Also a shout out to prophetsharing for fostering a cool fan art community for Prophet.

I want to do another zine (maybe after the series ends?) and include some art form other prophet fans… if anyone is interested?  Let me know.

May 1

The mugshots of the 6 officers who killed Freddie Gray.

(Top row) Officer Caesar Goodson, Officer Garrett Miller, Lt. Brian Rice

This is Nav Bhatia with his ‘actor/rapper’ friend at an NBA game. In my previous post, I was more focused on his ‘friend’, but after some internet research, I feel that this dude deserves some more god damn recognition.

But after a while that loses its sting, because what armed force is going to just out their weapons down because a bunch of people protest in a respectable manner??

The unspoken threat behind the protests of the civil rights movement was ‘imagine what would happen if we all got angry.’ It seems people have forgotten that statement. Now they’re being reminded - and maybe rather than scold and waggle your whitesplain finger at the protestors for being naughty, ask yourself why people feel the need to get this level of angry in the first place.

What the media won’t be showing you.