Queer Code -- Hard Copy $5!

I'd really like to tell you I'm happy I found your art blog. I guess I want to say that I find your self reflections to be really interesting and your approach as well. I just really happy to be following you! Thank you!

Thank you for taking the time to message me! It really does mean a lot.

Like a Big Cat Purring

36"x20", mixed media weaving, utilizing a crochet shawl made by my late cousin, before her death, 2024

detail one

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TODAY!!!

@shortrunseattle starts at 11 am tomorrow!

Drop by table B10, conveniently located near the Bake Sale, where I will have my “Queer Code” and “Therapist R. J. Hill” comics, two risograph illustration collections, and my full color comic “Emet”

get them at Short Run and you’ll get them cheaper, free of shipping costs, and with the ~exciting bonus~ of meeting me

I HAVE FORGOTTEN HOW TO RENDER HAIR

My Etsy: LINK / My Ko-Fi: LINK

I rarely reblog my own posts unless there's a specific update, but that means I'm also not very good at promoting where you can actually purchase my art!

You can get three digital (PDF) versions of my comics, "Queer Code," "Emet," and "Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight Days," and two SECRET EXTRA COMICS here: LINK

(The secret extra comics are the "R. J. Hill: Therapist" comics and the "Naruto: The Last King, The Last Priest" comic.)

"Queer Code," "Emet," and "Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight Days" are available as individual PDFs.

"Act Well Your Part" and "Emet" are available in print.

I have a limited number of my risograph illustration collections "Slap Your Cheeks for Color" and "Step Out Into Your Short Shorts."

Currently, I don't sell prints of my paintings because -- in all honestly -- there's been little demand for them, even when they were available through a print on demand website. If enough people express serious interest in prints, I'd consider trying again in the future.

I'm also thinking of creating color covers for print versions of "Queer Code" and "Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight Days," but that's kind of a back-burner idea at the moment.

H43 is go!

Some experiments with pencil and Posca marker.

My Etsy:LINK / My Society6:LINK / My Ko-Fi:LINK

Your comic about how you used to love to draw.. I sympathize so much. It must be so difficult to process those feelings during times like these. If it is any consolation, the space your art takes up is a joyful, meaningful one in a lot of people's hearts. It's like a language guidebook that creates the foundation of a second language in the mind of the reader. I know how poisonous it can be to think of your art as needing a function, to be small and disposable yet widely used, I hope you are feeling better these days with your art and that you are able to heal. Your art has helped heal a lot of us, but more meaningful is if it is able to heal you

Thank you for sending me this.

Honestly, I think disenchantment with, and then falling back in love with, art-making has been (and probably will always be) a cyclical part of my life. It’s my own little myth of Sisyphus wherein I laboriously roll my absurd art boulder up the hill, convinced that this task matters, only to watch in despair as it rolls back down the hill. I accept that I must do this task again, that my labor doesn’t matter, but pushing the art rock up the hill was fun so I might as well do it again.

original illustration - fashion 4

available for $35

My Etsy: LINK / My Society6: LINK / My Ko-Fi: LINK

Here’s the complete comic, compiled in one spot. 

11/14/22: I’ve taken both “Naruto: The Last King, The Last Priest” and “Therapist R. J. Hill” off my etsy store. Both comics can be read, in their entirety, on this tumblr.

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