TRANS-GALACTIC ARTCADE

AOTW #23: Chu 

Chu is a nonbinary, mixed race, 31 y/o cartoonist who currently lives in Arizona. They are the creator of the award-winning fantasy webcomic Slightly Damned as well as The Junk Hyenas Diner.

Slightly Damned started as a hobby in 2004. This fantasy-flavored afterlife adventure is now one of the internet's oldest ongoing webcomics. It has won four Ursa Major Awards and was the focus of two successful Kickstarters, and is now a part of the Hiveworks webcomic collective.

They have a graduate degree in cartooning from The Center for Cartoon Studies. While studying in Vermont, they developed their second webcomic, The Junk Hyenas Diner. As the name implies, it is a science-fantasy series about a small family of mutant hyenas that run a diner on an alien planet.

Animals, humor, color, and food are the four essential elements to Chu's work as an artist. They strive to make art that has the power to move people, even if it's just a chuckle.

LINKS:

Twitter | FurAffinity | DeviantArt | Storenvy | Slightly Damned | The JHD

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AOTW #22: AndroidPriest Cameron Stark is a 28­ year ­old digital illustrator and designer from Michigan, who has been drawing since he could hold a pencil.

Inspired by fantasy, sci­fi and transhumanism, video games, and music, his art tends to center on characters and locations from his imagination, trying to convey worlds he has spent years thinking about in the shower but procrastinating writing about.

Cameron’s hobbies center around the creative as well—he enjoys  creative writing, watching and playing video games, dabbling in music when the self­doubt isn’t too dramatic, and the occasional performing art. He also never  stopped playing dress­up asa kid, so he still does that a good chunk of the time as well.

Currently  working with Titanomachy Studios, Cameron is always looking to expand  his art  portfolio through many different avenues.

His work has been featured in local event flyers, music and performance promotion/merch, as well as various indie game and comic  projects. His goal is to one  day run a multimedia studio  of his own, or maybe convert a cathedral  into a nightclub. Or maybe become a robot.

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The TRANS-GALACTIC ARTCADE is a community devoted to supporting and recognizing transgender and GNC artists. We strive to be inclusive and provide a safe and encouraging space for young transgender artists to thrive. Anybody looking to support transgender & GNC artists is welcome to join, LGBT+ or not!

Every week we feature a new trans or GNC artist deserving of more recognition. Artists get a feature in our discord server, Twitter, and Tumblr. If you or someone you know is a transgender or GNC artist and could use some more traffic, fill out this form here and if you meet our requirements, someone from our server will be in contact with you for a feature! We only feature artists with consent.

Sound cool? Want to be a part of the fun? Come join us!

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In updating our website, we realized that Kyle doesn’t know how to count and that Artist of the Week #9 does not exist. Today, Kyle will be remedying that.

The 9th Artist of the Week is You!

It’s been a long and eventful year. A lot has happened, some great and inspiring, but other downright terrifying and paralyzing. But you’re still here. You’re still persistent and with us, devoting whatever time you can to your passions, even if it’s at crazy hours or in the middle of a class.

AOTW #21: VertigoKarma

Vertigo Karma is a fourteen year old trans fem artist and musician born and raised in New York. Most of her time is dedicated to her various projects, her biggest one yet being the Karmaverse: a multimedia story told through both music & comics.

Her art is most recognizable through her distinct painting style and strangle blend of various aesthetics; She makes different genres of music under different aliases.

LINKS:

Twitter | Tumblr | Soundcloud | Bandcamp

AOTW #20: Bedtimebaby

Leopold is a 16 year old trans man. He specializes in digital art and enjoys working with bright colors. He likes to incorporate trans bodies and gay couples in his art. He aspires to improve his art and tries to draw daily.

You can support him by commissioning him, or donating to his Paypal.

LINKS: Paypal | Tumblr | Commission Info

AOTW #19: Allan Grossmann

Allan Grossmann is a 21 y/o FTM transgender animation student who has a passion for drawing anything ranging from horses to robotic characters, writing fanfiction and film scripts, and playing videogames and TTRPG’s in his free time.

As an artist coming from a background of an Irish-Comanche family, Allan also wishes to explore a wider, more-diverse style of art and inspiration for his work, as well as learn more about his family’s rich history and culture. When it comes to his future, Allan dreams of producing his own short films and maybe even an animated television series or two; he also plans on working on more art and game-based videos for his YouTube channel.

As of right now, the best way to support Allan is to purchase a commission to help him get through the holidays while he works to find a job.

LINKS:

Twitter: Drownutqueen

Instagram: malekithstwerkteam

FurAffinity: tyrannosaurus-allan

YouTube: Tyrannosaurus-Allan

AOTW #18: Melvin Dovinte

Melvin Dovinte is a megalomaniacal webspace musician working in the avant-garde and genre-defying, with a particular interest in the impressionistic power of fantasy futurism. Their work draws heavily from an innate interest in music theory, a love of science-fiction from the '70s and '80s, and finding beauty in decadence.

You can support Melvin by sharing and buying their music!

Twitter

Bandcamp

Soundcloud

AOTW #17: ClownGaud Bloom/Paya is a 20 year old agender artist and character designer. As a mixed race and multiply disabled artist, they like to focus on creating  diversity within their art and stories.

As a lifelong lover of drawing and painting, they have coped with legal blindness through heavy style experimentation, and the ability to create appealing and meaningful imagery and characters despite and because of their disability is what drives them to make art. 

Aside from their artwork, they also have an interest in creating bold and colorful clothing, and hope to begin making music in the near future. You can support them by ordering digital commission work, or by following them on Patreon.

LINKS: Twitter Tumblr Instagram Patreon Email: [email protected]