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A recently deciphered 4,000-year-old clay tablet from ancient Mesopotamia is putting a new spin on the biblical tale of the flood and…
d'oh
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I WOULD JUST LIKE EVERYONE TO KNOW I AM VERY OKAY WITH THIS
ryan north and erica henderson on squirrel girl
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theangelshavethetimeturner asked:
I haven't read DoA yet but see in your FAQ that it's kind of an AU/reboot type of thing, and you say it's of previous webcomics, is it with characters from all of the previous ones, or just some? which one would you say it draws the most from?
It collects characters from all my previous webcomics and puts them in a big college AU stew.
It probably draws the most from Roomies!, my first webcomic, if only because both it and Dumbing of Age take place in an Indiana University setting. Dumbing of Age is essentially a Roomies! reboot using all the characters I’ve ever written in the eighteen years since.
Meanwhile, this is what the cover was like on mine:
It’s weird. Amanda Conner draws people. J Scott Campbell doesn’t draw people, he draws a collection of parts loosely scotch taped together in an attempt to recreate the one woman someone described to him once maybe fifteen years ago, like a game of Telephone gone awfully awry.
jacksonpferrell asked:
What advice would you give to a person who wants to become a person who draws comics every day, but isn't one yet? What changes, practices and habits did you find useful in becoming a person who draws comics every day (especially while you still had a non-comics-drawing day job)?
itswalky answered:
I’m not sure I have any additional ways or fancy ways to say “just draw comics.” I drew comics in my off-hours (or during my in-hours) when I had school and a retail job because I wanted to draw comics and couldn’t not draw comics. It’s what I wanted to do, so I did it. There isn’t any, like, clever trick for me to bestow. I wanted to do it and so I did it.
yup
You find the time because your blood screams if you don’t.
But what if we used to draw all the time and stopped? And we really want to get into it again, but it’s hard because we don’t know where to start with regards to practicing again? “Just draw all the time” is supposed to be the only answer, at least according to the dozens of artists I’ve seen answer this question, but what if our own personal anxieties prevent us from doing so, because we are so disappointed with how much our skills have regressed? After a certain point I don’t think “just draw all the time because you’ll feel like you have to if you really want it bad enough” works anymore.
Sometimes I feel like I don’t deserve to be a good artist because I am not compelled to draw every day, constantly. I used to draw a lot, but fell out of practice for several reasons including burnout, misguided constructive criticism from a mentor (she told me I was “absolutely good enough” to get into a special arts program but I was rejected and that crushed me, and i haven’t really trusted myself or critiques from others very well since), depression, low self esteem, etc. Now, thinking that I might try getting into it again, it just isn’t fun for me anymore because every time I try to start a drawing I have no idea what I’m doing, it comes out nothing like I had hoped, and I get sad and frustrated and anxious.
So, I’m someone who would be the type of person who might ask an artist I respect and admire “how do I get to the point where I can draw every day?” And to just be answered with “Uh, just draw every day.” or “You’ll feel like you have to draw every day” is even more discouraging. It makes me feel like I don’t deserve to be an artist, that I’m not meant to be an artist, because I don’t want it badly enough. I DO want it, I just have a lot of mental hangups about it. What I need is someone or something to guide me past those hangups, to give me a way to think about drawing that circumvents my expectations and lets me draw freely without feeling bad about myself. And maybe these artists that I see answering this question simply can’t answer it in the way I need, because they haven’t ever experienced the same hangups that I do. But it doesn’t make it any less discouraging when nobody seems to be able to give practical, useful advice. I know that the only way to truly improve your drawing is to draw all the time, but what I need help with is figuring out how to plow through my insecurities and actually do it.
We have all those same hangups. Every artist I know is filled to the brim with anxieties. I don’t know a single artist who hasn’t gone through the deepest, darkest depressive times. We second guess ourselves constantly, we frequently experience impostor syndrome, our art doesn’t turn out like we want it to, we know we can be better than we are so why aren’t we better, and all that stuff. We have no clue what we’re doing. Many of us feel awful all the time.
And the only real solution is to just make art anyway. That really is it. I know it sounds like a non-solution, or flippant, or too simplistic, but that’s really what it is. The need to do it is stronger than the millions of reasons our heads tell us not to do it. That’s what a lot of it comes down to. It’s a lot of sacrifice and self doubt, and we decided to do it anyway, to be brave and face all those fears.
I’ll give you some concrete advice, something specific you can grab onto. Step one to becoming a real artist: let go of any shred of an idea that you will ever be perfect. You will not, but the feeling that you need to be will paralyze you into never trying. Don’t try to escape your self doubts. Accept them, and do what you want to do anyway.
It really does come down to just doing it. You ignore the hundred million reasons why you can’t, and do it anyway. You gotta do it yourself. No advice ever given is ever gonna move your hands for you.
Something Howard Tayler once told me: “Perfect is the opposite of done.”
A recently deciphered 4,000-year-old clay tablet from ancient Mesopotamia is putting a new spin on the biblical tale of the flood and…
d’oh
"This is just another clever attempt from Satan to try to disprove or distort the existence of the ark," one said. Another wrote, "A round ark would have sunk."
im in tears
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jacksonpferrell asked:
What advice would you give to a person who wants to become a person who draws comics every day, but isn't one yet? What changes, practices and habits did you find useful in becoming a person who draws comics every day (especially while you still had a non-comics-drawing day job)?
I’m not sure I have any additional ways or fancy ways to say “just draw comics.” I drew comics in my off-hours (or during my in-hours) when I had school and a retail job because I wanted to draw comics and couldn’t not draw comics. It’s what I wanted to do, so I did it. There isn’t any, like, clever trick for me to bestow. I wanted to do it and so I did it.
The real time thought process behind writing my “about the artist” page for my next book.
Megan Rose Gedris does not know where the line is between bragging and self promotion and so falls back on self depreciating humor so as not to upset their impostor syndrome. Read their books.
Megan Rose Gedris lives in a garbage can and draws comics on the back of pizza boxes. Their best friend is a possum and they poop every time they laugh. Read their books.
Megan Rose Gedris is unable to assess their career from outside themself and all internal judgments say they’re a sham who should be exiled to the middle of a volcano. Read their books.
Megan Rose Gedris is the most amazing artist and writer ever and everything they touch turns to gold. If you don’t already know who they are, you’re a weirdo who should be exiled to the middle of a volcano. Read their books.
Megan Rose Gedris has lived a very strange life that nobody believes anyway so they might as well make up even more outlandish backstories. They are the secret emperor of the world. Read their books or die.
Megan Rose Gedris used to do a lot of cool things that they don’t do anymore and they’ve been feeling like a has-been lately, and talking about their accomplishments in the past tense makes them feel empty in the present tense. Read their books.
Megan Rose Gedris doesn’t know what to write here and considered looking themself up on their own wikipedia page, but they know the page is kind of outdated and has a photo of them with awful hair from 15 years ago and they cannot bring themself to look at it. Read their books.
Megan Rose Gedris has had a career where if feels like people are more interested in following them on social media than ever actually reading their work, and so feel compelled to highlight their personality instead of their work, while simultaneously wanting to step out of the spotlight and not talk about themself. Do not look at them. Read their books.
Megan Rose Gedris has been feeling burned out by art lately and has semi seriously considered giving it all up to start an artisan pickle company. Chris Onstad makes syrup now and he seems really happy. You know what? Don’t read their books.
Megan Rose Gedris broke into comics with YU+ME: dream, a surreal lesbian romance series that was the recipient of Prism Comics’ Queer Press Grant. Their short story Trans Plant was nominated for an Eisner Award. Their comics have appeared in a dozen different publications as well as several self published books funded through very successful kickstarter campaigns. Their work focuses on genre fiction starring women and queer people with lots of humor. They enjoy performing, designing textiles, and playing music. They live in Chicago.
draws a new becky, finishes, sits back, realizes he’s drawn a lesbian standup comedian
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