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With a heavy heart, I come to you all with the news announced by close friends of Cat Frazier that she had passed away on Monday, June 29.

She had been running @animatedtext since 2012, with her impact on the internet SHAPING tumblr. If you have a years long history on this site, you’ve seen her art.

She ran a venue in Oakland called Oakland Secret, a punk venue where I’d vend at regularly as an artist. She made a safe space for queer artists, artists of color, and local furs too. I am forever grateful for her work both in the Bay Area creative scene and online, and am forever changed by the totality of her impact.

I’ll be linking some articles from the 2010’s about her impact online: The Fader | Action | Jezebel | ObviouslySocial

I invite you to take a visit through her archive, and if you have a long history with this site like I do, it’s like walking down memory lane.

comics class assignment was to make an autobio comic emulating the styles of 3 comic artists that inspire you! this was rly challenging and i wanted to die doing it lol but i’ve been wanting to study these artists’ styles for a while so i’m glad i did it

i tried to pick from styles that i really admired during different periods in my life, so the first page was my childhood favorites, the second was my adolescence, and the third is into adulthood. here r the art styles in order:

mato (pokémon adventures)

gabby caldera (memoircomics)