December 2010
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New Years!
Happy New Years Eve everybody! I’ve never actually made many resolutions in my life but this time around I think I’d like to try it. My number one ambition for 2011 is to become more productive but also add a little more balance to my life. I hope to start exercising again (I know, I know…), live cheaper and better and of course to get into college, alternatively working at least...
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“We keep coming back to the question of representation because identity is always...”
– bell hooks (Reel To Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies)
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Inspiration Of The Day
Okay. I promise this is the last time I’m going to go on about Swedish comic creators. But seriously. Here we have a woman who creates feminist erotic comics for a living and has perfect hair. I am so jealous.
You can read Lina Neidestam’s blog here. This videolog is making me seriously consider taking up illustrating comics with ink and pencil if there is any way I can make it...
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Canary toasts 2010
dcwomenkickingass:
This is adorably sexy. By Tracy Lee Quinn.
As a feminist and as a bisexual girl I have VERY conflicting feelings about female pinups. Very conflicting feelings. But I have to admit this is pretty great.
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Presents
I love Swedish comics! So much feminism and good taste. I got three amazing books for Christmas and recommend them all to everyone who can read them. Especially Pärlor och Patroner was very inspiring and taught me a lot about interesting historical women. It’s ridiculous how none of their stories get told in the mainstream media when they’re all so interesting! Nanna Johansson and Sara...
Ladies Making Comics: The Grand Lady Comics... →
ladiesmakingcomics:
Feelings of blogger inadequacy, I haz them.
I feel like every now and then I’ll find like ten lady comics creators on Tumblr that I didn’t realize were on Tumblr, even if I know their work. I know there’s no way in the world for me to know everyone on the internet and their social networking…
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Strut Rambles
As I’m sketching for my comics, I’m trying to improve on the fluidity of my drawings, trying to add a little more dynamic movement rather than making the characters look too stiff. It’s not exactly my key strength, especially not since it’s hard to find good reference photos for such over emphasized poses. I also find that the more I force poses to become more dynamic, the...
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Achtung X-mas
This song is the best for getting me in the Christmas spirit. No sarcasm, it makes me misty eyed and homesick and all that!
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Merry Christmas and stuff!
I’m alive. I’ve been Internet-less since moving into my lovely new house, and since then I’ve gotten mugged, been in bed with the flu for over a week and done plenty of drawing. Good news is Foggy Notion is definitely coming back online any of these days now, I have about 14 finished pages and just need to finish one more to do a eight-page upload. That’s about all I have...
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Flytt
I’m moving houses! I completely forgot to mention it here! I got fed up with this horrible, drafty, manky old house and my girlfriend got fed up with my complaining and did all the hard work of finding me a new place to live. I could not have gotten a better Christmas present. The best part is I’m moving in with two of her classmates who are both absolutely amazing and seem to be very...
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Swedish Comics
I often say I don’t miss anything about Sweden and that I’m not really proud of anything we’ve accomplished as a nation. This is not entirely true; I am proud of one single thing. Almost all important contemporary Swedish comic book artists are feminist women, who write really potent and usually funny comics about feminism or feminist ideas. And it’s not like I read them...
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Tony Sketch
I got gouache paints about a month ago, and they’re amazing. They’re the perfect love baby of water colours and acrylics, because they’re easy to control and yet still very rich. The only problem is of course that since I’ve never used them before, I can’t anticipate how much the colours will change as the paint dries. The above sketch of Tony from 457 looked amazing...
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This is me!
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457 sketches 1
I made some more sketches. Bitches love sketches. I have unrequited feelings for Topshop. Can you tell?