Shortpacked!: Five
Shortpacked!’s final week begins! If you buy 3 or more items in the Books category in the store, use the coupon code SOGGIES to get $10 off your order! Works on items in the Books category only!
(The Dumbing of Age 3-book combo counts as only one item, but there’s 5 Shortpacked! books in there, so grab ‘em up.)
More Fanart for Shortpacked!
This is based on one of his recent comics: http://www.shortpacked.com/2012/comic/book-14/03-totally-babies/equaltime/
This is just a response to a comment I couldn’t draw earlier due to work and parties.
Shortpacked by David Willis
Shortpacked.com
The “The Shortpacked!: The Movie” posters arrived in the mail this very morning, on Shortpacked!’s seventh anniversary! Pretty damn sweet! I tried a million times to get the colors to show up correctly on my camera, but this is the best I could do. Imagine it looking roughly 400% prettier.
Though they are limited, there are still some of these left! You can even splurge and get a piece of original character artwork from me as well! All proceeds go to the “David and Maggie need to get the hell out of the house for once” fund.
I will start putting some of these in the mail to those who ordered them just as soon as it stops being The Deluge out there.
I think I draw slightly better when I’m drawing Dumbing of Age. I really don’t know what it is. Is it psychological? Leslie doesn’t get this nicely rendered over on Shortpacked!. It’s not like I sit down to draw Shortpacked! and think, man, let’s just crap this one out, it just happens.
(april 15)
and yeah i drew her in the same outfit that she’s wearing in shortpacked! right now why the heck not
Originally my price sheet was just some stock Shortpacked! art, but after taking stock of all the posters I have available to sell, I realized, dude, I’m sharing a booth, I ain’t gonna have room for all that stuff to keep out on display, and so I replaced the stock Shortpacked! art with images of all the posters I’m bringing.
Wow, that should not have been one sentence.
Anyway, I’m bringing all that stuff, Shortpacked! books 1-4, Dumbing of Age book 1, and the new Leslie/Robin licky print.
EMERALD CITY COMICON BOOTH #1008, YO
In Shortpacked!’s final week, let’s count down the top ten Shortpacked! strips!
…this strip is one through ten.
welp we’re done
The ENTIRE 2,000+ strip run of Shortpacked! is now available in the app, joining David Willis’ other comics Dumbing of Age and It’s Walky!/Roomies! Thank you for enjoying The David Willis App.
I don’t know if you guys read either of David Willis’s comics—he makes Shortpacked! and Dumbing of Age. And one of his comics just made me really happy in a sex positivity related way:
I love that David Willis spends time combating rape culture, promoting sex positivity, making comics with queer characters—Ethan, the protagonist of Shortpacked! is gay—and refusing to let his politics overwhelm what he’s really making: funny, solid, usually lighthearted comics. Partly because he knows he’s an ally, and his voice shouldn’t be the center of these political conversations. And he’s really talented, and oh man, basically just, David Willis appreciation post.
Anyway, this comic pinpoints something that’s important and doesn’t get talked about enough.
So yeah, if you’re a queer geek and/or a feminist geek I really recommend this guy’s work.
Sometimes amidst all this praise, I remember I’m still partly that little mal-educated fundie boy from backwater Indiana, and I worry I’ve raised everyone’s expectations regarding my Progressiveness unreasonably high. WHAT IF I SCREW UP???
If I’d drawn sexist jerk comics all these years, nobody’d expect anything from me! But now I’m trapped. TRAAAAPPED.
THIS. I’ve loved David Willis for this Shortpacked for forever, but Kevin Bolk always puts up a good fight as well, and I wanted to express my appreciation to both I always like seeing male artists take a stand against female objectification in comics. It needs to be an outside perspective, unfortunately, to get the point across sometimes - because as soon as a woman like myself comments on the problem all we hear in response is “you’re just jealous” and “you know you want to look like that.” Actually, I don’t. I know people who are constantly being belittled for their abilities because they’re drop dead gorgeous or they have huge breasts.
I’m not saying there aren’t women out there who want this - but let’s be honest… it’s mostly men who want this kind of woman. It is not completely their fault either - they’re constantly bombarded by media and society that tells them this is what a woman should look like, just as much as women are. Of course both men and women have a skewed perspective with this influence.
Well I have news for you - BOOBS ARE FAT. MOST WOMEN WITH HUGE BREASTS DO NOT HAVE TINY DELICATE WAISTS. That small percentage of women who do have tiny waists and huge breasts almost always have serious health issues due to so much weight on a frame that can’t support it.
But the real problem is not so much how they look - as others have pointed out, men are portrayed as strong muscled hunks in comics and other media as well (although I have to point to Shortpacked here, because they argue so much better than I ever could on that point). My major problem as far as objectification is the lack of women with distinct personalities. As a comics and anime fan, I’m constantly running up against females that are not well rounded characters. It’s like people don’t know how to write female characters. Women only use their bodies to get what they want, but beyond their bodies and sex appeal their characters always seem empty and lacking.
All I want is for female characters to have more power than the “power” they gain using their bodies to manipulate. This stems way back to the antifeminist church fathers’ writings way back in medieval times; they used to attack women for the same thing. I feel we should be past that at this point in time, don’t you?
/TLDR.
Kevin Bolk managed three sets of both boobs and butts! He is a wizard!
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