Happy PRIDE I’m Here I’m Queer And I Believe The Land Should Be Given Back To The Proper Indigenous

Jinx doodles

French Guianese (Creole) Miku :] Gotta work for my country's rep

I debated putting her in this fit or dressing her up as a Touloulou but that would have been too much effort

hi hello I checked out Laika's Comet a while back and man it's stunning! it's been a bit of a driving inspection for me to potentially make my own comics/stories but I don't know where to begin... what's your writing process like? do you write the story out as if it were a novel first then develop it into a visual medium or is it something entirely different? I've been interested in comics and the like since middle school and I've always wanted to hear someone's process for making them and I hope this ask finds you well

before drawing them, i script my comics the same way you would write out a screenplay! i've written screenplays for a film and a few short TV-episode-length shorts for school, as well as a play. the structure of it just so happens to work really well for comics too.

in screenplays (the way i was taught at least) you cannot write what a character silently thinks or feels - you can only write how they act. anyone who reads the screenplay should be able to interpret that character's unspoken thoughts/feelings/motives from the subtleties of their actions, because in the real world, there are rarely voice-over narratives or thought bubbles.

this also creates a little more tension within the narrative itself... if the character's silent intentions were all revealed to us as the audience, we'd have very little to be curious about. if there's something that you need to show that they wouldn't say outloud (either because its out of character or just not something a normal person would ever do) its your job as the writer to create instances in which that information can be revealed naturally.

i write comics the same way. i DO think narratives or thought bubbles are a useful tool unique to the medium of comics (so i would say dont wave them off by any means) BUT if you learn to write like you would for TV/movies then you can write comics in a way that builds intrigue/tension LIKE would be built in the moving picture... and you will cut any reliance on 'easy' answers behind the knees. basically, you'll train yourself to be a better writer.

also, the way screenplays are organized is soooo much easier to figure out how many pages your comics (page length) are going to be. if one page of written script is one minute of on-screen time, then one pages of script for a COMIC is usually (for me) equal to one page of actual DRAWN comic. i appreciate the efficiency and straight forwardness of the structure.

paper mario and the 60 dollar yuri

if they bring back mammoths me and my friends are going to throw sticks at them until they die

pearl breaks down the lyrics to nasty majesty

SPLATOON PLAGUE DOCTOR MASK REAL HOLY FUCKING SHIT

Reblog to open a rail line from your blog to the person you reblogged this from

Quilla Bung - a folk tale turned into learning lesson for two sapphics to not fuck with geese.

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assignment for my comics class, might redo this but without the constraints we had sometime

Hundreds of people marched in Minneapolis on Friday to honor missing and murdered Indigenous relatives. Between 27 and 54 American Indian women and girls in Minnesota were missing in any given month from 2012 to 2020, according to the Minnesota Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Office.

Star Tribune, Photos by Leila Navidi.