Nobody’s yet noticed how this panel kind of reads from what Leslie says in the previous panel…
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David Willis, author of one of my favorite webcomics, Dumbing of Age, posted on his page that his recent story arc had been bringing in a fair amount of fanart, and I decided to jump on the bandwagon.
Dumbing of Age is an alternate universe comic that features characters he’s created over the better part of a decade in his other webcomics “Shortpacked” and “It’s Walky” and updates Mon-Fri. He has such great pacing and story development that I find myself going crazy waiting for each page, even though they come out so frequently! When I was first linked to the comic, I read it backwards from latest to see if I was interested in it. After going back50 comics deep, I realized it would join my weekly rotation, and I read it from the beginning.
This character, Joyce, is the first one we’re introduced to in the series, and she’s a fundamentalist Christian going off to college where her sheltered upbringing starts to clash with the real world. This outfit is from the most recent arc where she’s being pushed to wear something besides sweater vests, and…
yes
So FishEye (an israeli movie review site) is having a big discussion about women in the media and the Bechdel Test when I suddenly realised something.
The only reason that “Dumbing of Age” passed the Reverse Bechdel Test is because Mike and Walky talked about CLOTHES.
Okay, it was Pyjama Jeans
BUT STILL
hahahaha
Sal as Amazi-Girl! Billie’s reality haha.
Sketch by David Willis at Webcomics Rampage 2012!
Dude, David Willis.
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.
HEY GUYS
DANIELLE CORSETTO (girls with slingshots) IS LIKE DRIVING ACROSS THE WHOLE DAMN COUNTRY AND SHE’S GONNA BE IN COLUMBUS, OHIO, ON SUNDAY, JULY 6, AT THE LAUGHING OGRE (comic book store) WITH ME, DAVID WILLIS (dumbing of age) AND ALSO KATIE VALESKA AND LORA INNES
THAT’S JULY 6
4 TO 8 PM
JUST SO YOU KNOW
Dumbing of Age Vol. 2: The Cragged Shame Pits of the Lustwolves
Written by: David Willis
Art by: David Willis
Price: $9.99
Joyce’s second week of college sends everyone to the beach (or what passes for one in Indiana), Dorothy finds an unlikely love interest, Amazi-Girl strikes, and Sarah reveals why she’s such a bitter crank.
Dumbing of Age Book 2 is now on Comixology!
David Willis has recently been working on a Crisis on Infinite Earths homage featuring his cast of thousands. He posted many updates along the way, and impressed by his work ethic I decided to put all of them into an animated GIF and see them come together.
Click the image for a larger version.
Today you are my favorite person.
You hear me, wife? You didn’t make me an animated GIF today, so you’re #2.
Dumbing of Doo
Yeaih! it’s finished. Dumbing of age gang decides to take on the “Mystery Machine” and solve looney cases aroung campus. This is my first drawing made entirely with my tablet *-*.
Webcomic original characters from David Willis (Dumbing of Age)
okay feel better now
The Dumbing of Age Book 10 Kickstarter passed $55K this morning, which means that the CONQUEST MAGNET pledge tier is unlocked! If you’ve gone in for a COMPLETE MAGNET POWER tier, consider her added to your ginormous pile of magnets. If you want her and only a handful of other magnets, there’s PICK THREE and PICK FIVE MAGNETS tiers available!
Three Twitter polls this weekend (it’s complicated) all indicated that who you want to see at $60K for the twelfth (and final??????? maybe???? we’ll see) magnet is Eric, aka the fingerguns guy. To be honest, if you list four options in a poll and one of them’s marked “the fingerguns guy,” that’s probably going to be the winning option, huh.
four and a half days to go!
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