#not comics

[cloverandcutlass]

I want to ramble a bit about my character design choices for my comic for the SpiderForest Threads: Immortal anthology! And since this is my blog you can't stop me >:)

My comic for the anthology takes place sometime in the prehistory of the setting for Clover & Cutlass. I wanted the people we see in this timeframe to combine traits we see in the "modern" C&C setting (pointy ears! tusks!) with ones we haven't really seen anyone have yet (fur! stripes!).

As a big ol' nerd about Textile And Clothing History I spent a while pondering what kinds of spinning or weaving these folks would have access to. The flat strips of material used here could potentially be leather sewn together with tendon, but I think it's likely that at least some of that is fabric created via backstrap weaving.

They definitely have the basics of spinning though! The necklace this gal is wearing is plant material spun into a single-ply strand and then coated with red ochre pigment. If there's one thing people have loved doing across all areas of history, it's Make Pretty Thing To Wear.

The anthology this comic is in is currently raising print funds via Kickstarter! You can check out the campaign here, and if it piques your interest enough that you toss some money our way, I will owe you my sword in fealty. Thanks for reading!

#not comics #talkin bout makin comics #spiderforest

[dog-teeth]

🇵🇸

#free palestine #free gaza #illustration #digital art #not comics

[junkworldusa]

HI I love my copy of Junkworld btw!! Thank you!!

Idk I might have asked you this before or someone else may have but I was wondering if you would talk some about your art practice like. Routine and the like? I think I remember you doing Lynda Barry exercises?

Well either way thank you!!!!

Oliver!!! Yes!!! I'm so glad!

I have to preface this by saying that I don't even work on art every day, much less comics. Last October I picked up knitting on a whim and spent all my free time making hats while listening to an audiobook of Moby-Dick. I made a lino print for the first time while sending out JW #1, fell in love with it, and have spent the last month or so carving and printing and experimenting. I go on painting jags, collage jags, writing jags, and I have two (2) guitars that are sitting in the corner patiently waiting for asteroid Kiana to circle back to them. I've been this way my whole life, and I am trying to work with it and not against it. HOWEVER. There is a hardcore Type A perfectionist inside me that wants nothing but consistency. This part of me abhors the flightiness, the mutations, the bouts of melancholy -- if there must be a Quest, it cries, let it be towards a singular Goal!!!!

For recovering perfectionists there really is no better teacher than Lynda Barry. She has a list of materials, she has dozens of exercises, she has you set time limits. According to her books she is quite a strict teacher in-class, demanding a lot of time, effort, care, and attention. All of this is wonderful. She boxes you in and sets you free.

"Making Comics" is the essential text. My favorite exercise is Monster Jam.

Here are a few of mine, all done left-handed to minimize the influence of the Type A chatter who lives in my brain. I have dozens and dozens of pages of these monsters. Barry recommends this specific process a lot: lay down the lines under pressure before your brain can catch up, then add color/patterns/details, under no pressure at all, while watching/listening to something you like.

There are several iterations after this - you draw their parents, an older sibling, a lover. Then you go back to the beginning and draw, in 6 panels, the story of their life. It somehow always presents itself.

As valuable as they are, I don't use these exercises to actually make comics nowadays. I use them to loosen up and activate that aforementioned feeling. Most of my comics come from doodles or notes scribbled down in a tiny notebook I carry everywhere. The process of making a longform comic is something I have bashed my head against for YEARS, and now involves divination, random image generation, a deck of Nancy cards, a lightbox, and a ton of panels chopped up and spread out on the floor so I can move them around. This is why I still only work in grids!

#2024 #not comics #thank you for the question #also happy belated birthday!!!!!

[avid-makes-a-comic]

Hey hey hey. I am aware that I recently sort of blew up (wayyy more than I’d expected), and so far I’ve been getting updates out pretty quick. I am however a human being with a life, so I would like to clarify that they will likely slow down at least a little. I go through month-long highs and lows when it comes to art/artblock, so I just want to say that this “multiple updates per week” pace is not my norm, and is not something I can easily maintain. You folks have been nothing but kind in my notes so far, and I appreciate that a lot. I’m putting this out there more for myself so I don’t set unrealistic expectations in my head, but also as a PSA that I’m alive beyond the interweb

#not comics

[t4tmagicians]

(not a comic post bc apparently this is the blog where i talk about being roma)

so i volunteer in my local museum, right? and we do a lot of anti-racism stuff here, to the point where when i first mentioned i was roma, the volunteer coordinator came up to me and told me to tell her immediately if i felt anyone was being racist towards me.

so one day i'm doing my thing, talking to some kids about some bronze age jewelry, when i hear "GYPSY!!!"

and obviously i am. confused. shocked, scared i'm about to be assaulted, etc as anyone is when a slur that applies to you is screamed in the bg. i turn around, mainly to see if this is thrown at me as i'm pretty white passing.

i see this middle aged woman running after a toddler, and once again she yells "GYPSY!" and it occurs to me. in the year of our anarchy 2024 someone has named their child a slur and convinced me i'm about to get jumped in front of five seven-year-olds.

this doesn't have a moral or anything it was just really fucking weird

#roma #romani #not comics #g slur #antiromanism

[c1nder-clan]

Can somone please explain to me why the colour suddenly gets brighter????? I’m just useing the eye dropper tool in procreate 😭

LOOK AT THE COLOUR DIFFERENCE WHATS GOING ON>?? AHDBFJABFIAEFJFDG

#Help #not comics #AHHHHHH

[vintageterror]

#Unsure of year #Or where I even got this #Black Sabbath #Goat #Not comics #Skeletons #skeleton

[guerinke]

Sploosh n Squiff from Guerinke. Useless lesbians, my beloved

#guerinke #splatoon #sploosh #squiff #wlw #gl #yuri #not comics

[hetalia-themagicalmanac]

what if we as a fandom made france a nice dad :)

#not comics #hws france

[hawkzeyes]

I’m GOBBLIN up the Songbirds & Snakes soundtrack GOOD GOD

#hawkzeyes #this thing absolutely FUCKS #mockingjay #not comics #the ballad of songbirds and snakes

[dog-teeth]

thank you for all the boops everyone. it is making me happy and joyous. i have a big school deadline tomorrow so i cant stick around and boop as much as id like to but spiritually im booping all of you many times. except if you sent me an evil boop because im jealous i dont know how to do it and i covet your dark powers.........

#ez says #not comics #pen and ink #boop #booping

[mysillycomics]

Hi everyone! This is Claire. I am writing to let you all know that we did it. We saved Bailey and Tiger Fluff, and we all live together in an apartment in Illinois, my home state. We really, really did it!!!

You can read our thanks, thoughts, and more under the read more :0)

(note: Oliver also goes by Bailey! She has two names.)

There are many important people on this journey that we would like to specifically thank.

First, all of our friends (especially Peregrine, Sophie, and Jackson) who were there on the day Bailey was evicted, who listened to me and helped me figure out what to do when I felt more lost than I’ve ever been. Without them we wouldn’t have been able to act so quickly and efficiently. Because of them, we were able to formulate a plan.

Speaking of Jackson, he and his partner Cherri need to be thanked once again. Jackson drove all the way from his home, Bailey’s motel, and back to get both her and Tiger to a place to stay while we figured out what to do next. They provided a warm, quiet, and safe place for both of them in a time when something like that was so far away. For the first time in a long time, I knew that Bailey was truly somewhere safe. For that, we will be forever grateful.

While we do not have their names, we would like to thank the staff of the airport and airline who helped make this journey objectively possible. They also made Tiger into a little celebrity on the flight, and everyone, including the pilot, went to greet her and congratulate her for being so brave. She really is the bravest little kitty we know.

Next are my very close friends Elle and Callan, who invited Bailey and Tiger to stay at their house not far from mine while we secured a place of our own. They, like Jackson and Cherri, gave both of them the space to simply be. I was able to visit a couple of times, and being with my favorite people made an extremely difficult time so much better. It made me think “this feeling is what we are fighting for”.

Finally, we’d like to thank you.

To all of you who read and shared our story, you helped us to feel seen and heard and not alone. Reading words of support in the comments, quote retweets, and tumblr tags truly made me feel like we could do this with everyone cheering us on.

To everyone who donated, your generosity this financially possible. As of writing, we received $19,381 from the GoFundMe. We are now able to use the rest of funds that have been tucked away in savings for rent, food, and bills. I cannot overstate how grateful we both are. What you did for us will never leave our hearts.

…

While Bailey and Fluffy were at Elle and Callan’s, we found an apartment. It was small, but perfect. We toured. We applied. And we got it.

And on December 9th, 2023, we moved in and started living together! Our goal, our dream, our driving force for so long was achieved. After three years of long distance, we finally made it.

Our home is small, and has some quirks as all homes do, but it’s ours. The love of my life, the best little cat in the word, and I are all together. We are safe, warm, happy, and loved. The future we fought so hard for us now the present. Forgive me for being long-winded. I just have so much to say about all of this! Sometimes I still can’t believe that we actually did it. But we did, we really did!!!

I’m going to keep the GoFundMe up for a little bit, but once things settle more I will close donations.

Thank you!!!!!!!!! 🧸💕

____

Hey everyone Bailey here, I cannot overstate just how grateful I am to every single one of you and how thankful I am that this journey has been able to come into fruition. It was very scary being in that motel not having a plan or knowing what I was gonna do next while everything was crumbling around me. If it wasn't for Claire and our incredibly kind and caring friends I don't know what I'd do. They helped me press on and get through this with Fluff and we finally did.

Finally we're in a place that brings nothing but peace and comfort, my anxiety has dropped and I'm doing things I've never thought possible and building up strengths I never knew I had, I feel whole in a way that I've never felt before and I'm just, happy.

I am so grateful to have Claire, for years she's been so supportive and comforting and has brought this dream we've had into reality and every day I am so thankful to have her, she is the love of my life and my best friend. The life that her, myself and Fluff now share will forever be together and we can finally begin living. 💚💜

Thank you everyone, thank you to our friends who let Fluff and I into their lives to be able to be safe while we get our bearings, thank you to everyone who said such kind and wonderfully compassionate words, cheering us on as we go, every day I was looking at the community post I made on YT and it was just filled with people being so supportive, and thank you everyone who donated and got us into where we are. We could not have done it without all of you. 🐟 ❤️ 🐟 ❤️

#mysillycomics #baileyfeesh #not comics

[25thcenturyshark]

Nobody is experiencing The Horrors quite like John Constantine

#honestly unironically that man deals with stuff that would make me shit myself. #NOOO thank you!! im good girly <3 #john constantine #constantine #dc #not comics #25thcenturyshark talks #vertigo #?

[upagainstthesunset]

Tomato bisque

Green curry

Butter chicken

Pho

Ramen

Soondubu jigae

Bibimbap

Shrimp and grits

Poke

Bagara baingan

Gumbo

Bowl foods my beloved

#not comics #im just really hungry ;_; #i feel like im forgetting some #anyway this is where im at spiritually today

[c1nder-clan]

its ma birthday :)

#art #Random #not comics

[vintageterror]

I've been slowly amassing more comic panels and stuff for ya'll!

I have been collecting dinosaurs, superheroes, more animals, and some more sci-fi flavored stuff.

Look forwarding to posting them for you!

#not comics #text