Another Painting In Progress

I’ve sewn the two panels together and, as you can see, there is a bit of a discrepancy in the length of the right hand panel!

My next step is to attempt hemming the ends on the sewing machine and then trimming them down to an even length.

A hallway rug, made with yarn from old t-shirts. It’s roughly 8ft long and took about a day to make. I’ve decided it’s too narrow, so I’m gonna make a second and then sew them together down the middle.

Aaah! My first risograph printed collection of portraits!

Slap Your Cheeks for Color -- $12.50

A collection of 16 portraits. Due to the nature of risograph printing, each print is slightly different, making each zine a unique art piece.

This is the first in a trilogy that I hope to print and take to the Seattle Short Run. Orders of this collection help fund printing for the others!

Printing services by the wonderful Colour Code Printing, who did a bang up job and were incredibly helpful with talking me through formatting.

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The first page of my Naruto fancomic. From here, I'll post the comic in two-page batches as I complete them.

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I will be posting original art pieces for sale, like this one!

“original illustration - a kiss” available for $35 + shipping

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you are my son and i am saturn do you see it? this is you and me i want you to know as you're being eaten the lights will be on and that this is you and me

"Saturn" by Xiu Xiu

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Queer Code -- hard copy $5!

So... this was originally gonna be a few pages explaining “queer coding” but the further I got in it, the more I had to say, so I chopped up the first few panels I made, rearranged them and added like 6 more pages.

When I heard they were making a tv version of “Preacher,” I decided to give the comics a read. I’d read some of Garth Ennis’ other stuff back in high school and I always heard him put up there with Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore.

By the end of the first arc in “Preacher,” I basically had to will-power my way through the rest of the comic because I wanted to know how it ended. Despite having read the whole damn thing only a few months ago, I can barely remember any of it, except for how utterly aggravated the whole thing made me. The most POSITIVE depiction of a queer character in the whole series is of a self-loathing gay cop who can only have sex with other men when they’re beating and humiliating him. THAT’S THE MOST POSITIVE DEPICTION OF A QUEER CHARACTER.

And then I recently read some contemporary manga

“Soil” -- One canon queer character. A gay man who is a serial child molester.

“One Punch-Man” -- One canon queer character. A gay man who is basically a walking prison rape joke.

“I Am a Hero” -- One canon queer character. A transgender man who is repeatedly misgendered and insulted and ultimately dies. But he’s not a rapist or a murderer, so yay representation?

I’ll admit, this comic is coming from a place of anger and disappointment. That the Big Names in Serious Graphic Novels (some of which I really enjoy and really influenced me) still have so much homophobic/transphobic content. That a lot of contemporary comics haven’t progressed much further. I don’t expect every queer character to be a hero, but when you have a mere handful of queer characters and the majority of them die or are villains, it’s a problem. I’d rather see a body horror metaphor for queerness than see another shitty canon queer trope.

Shout out to my fellow queer comic book makers. Even if you’re just xeroxing comics in the campus computer lab and giving them to friends, you are doing good work.

And if Garth Ennis wants to argue that “Preacher” isn’t homophobic, I am ready to throw down in the alley behind my apartment. And by “throw down,” I mean “debate.”

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Progress! The halo will be done with metallic paint at the end. Man, the iPhone camera flattens the FUCK out of this painting.

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Thank you to all the awesome people who came by my table at Short Run and to the mega sweeties who gifted or traded their work.

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Playing around with cheap color pencils.

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Dreamed that I died. I immediately came back to life in a new body, but my dead body was just... laying around. I dressed my dead body in a long, navy blue dress. As I carried the body into my room, I thought "Hey! I can use this in my photography!"

As I tried to position the dead body so that I could photograph the two of us, the head on my dead body turned into a cat's head. It kept trying to bite me.