[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you're stuck in a room with all of your OC! will you survive?

yes

no

results

Voting ended onFeb 10

[doopliss]

The answer is no but only because some of them have the plague

[kamreadsandrecs]

The silent rebellion of certainty: Moto Hagio & Julia Gfrörer - The Comics Journal

Julia Gfrörer is perfectly capable of flawless rhetoric, as proven in the second of two Frasier parodies within World Within the World. She

[doopliss]

[doopliss]

[musings-from-an-elder-goth]

Scored 27 of the 32 volumes of Time Life Books Mysteries of the Unknown for just $20 at a flea market. Loved the creepy TV commercials for these from the late '80's:

Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got some spooky reading to do...

[doopliss]

Impossible to overstate the influence these books had on me

[doopliss]

My book won the Ignatz award for Outstanding Collection last week. Yes it really is literally a brick. Thank you to everyone who voted for me! And to everyone who didn’t, I hope you soon see the error of your ways

[graphicpolicy]

Small Press Expo 2025 announces Caroline Cash, Ann Telnaes, Peter Kuper, Laura Terry, Anders Nilsen, Julia Gforer and Paige Hender as Special Guests #spx #spx2025

Small Press Expo 2025 announces Caroline Cash, Ann Telnaes, Peter Kuper, Laura Terry, Anders Nilsen, Julia Gforer and Paige Hender as Special Guests

[kammartinez]

An interview with Julia Gfrörer: 'I don't think that I could make like a nice book if I wanted to' - The Comics Journal

In a conversation with Matthew Perpetua, Gfrörer discusses how she started in comics, her early inspirations, the creative freedom of making

[doopliss]

WORLD WITHIN THE WORLD: COLLECTED MINICOMIX AND SHORT WORKS 2010-2022 — The Comic Crush

On The Comic Crush, the UK’s best online small press and indie comic shop, we present Paul’s review of The World Within The World, a collection of mini-comics and short works by Julia Gfrörer. It features 30 of Gfrorer's short stories, culled from a decade of writing and drawing at the bleeding edge

“It feels like you don't 'read' these stories, rather they happen to you, forcing themselves into your mind. Gfrörer's art is scratchy, uncontrolled, recalling Eddie Campbell's lines on From Hell. As with Alan Moore, you won't be in for an easy ride here. You'll be challenged and pushed, perhaps into corners you'll want to fight your way out from. This is a fascinating, beguiling collection that will pull you in, again and again, regardless if you want to give in to its allure or not.”

[fanzines]

✂️ Now is the time to join or start a zine club ✂️

Zine clubs are an informal gathering of people to read, make, swap or share zines – they're inclusive, regular (weekly, monthly, etc) and fun.

They take place in public spaces, like libraries, cafes or even parks.

Why not start one in your area? ✏️

[altcomics]

Kirby is  this example of someone whose cultural impact hasn’t been (and never will be) examined/appreciated in the way that a somewhat middling American author (Phillip Roth for example) is examined/appreciated. And even if Kirby DOES get that recognition, it will still never get close to deciphering what he was all about, because the language to talk about what he's doing does not exist. Matisse is more important on his own than all the words written about him. But, those words, over the last century, help us to approach his work in its totality...even if we've never read them, they've merged into the air enough that we can accept Matisse's radicalism as part of our lives. Kirby will never have this, and that is a loss. In fact, Kirby's work, in the way most get to access it, is a putrid ugly version of his vision, an almost satanic crime. ‘Comics working class' this, 'comics can be made by anyone' that, but those words miss the complexity of a generation of young &  poor men whose destiny was to be blue collar and, in a way, remained blue collar, essentially working in sweat shops....but made visionary art. Every effort has been made to degrade what they did, to make it ugly, and those efforts have been successful. The delivery system, a system for people from poor backgrounds to create imaginative works and communicate to a mass audience, has also been erased.

[doopliss]

A visual timeline of my father’s death.

[dangermousse-archive]

this is still the ultimate popeye comic panel

[doopliss]

Hello! I love your work and was wondering how I could go about getting one of your designs on my body. Do you usually ask for some compensation for using one of your designs??

No compensation necessary. But I would love to see a photo of the completed tattoo!

[sophiefranz]

Hung some drawings yesterday. You can see them in person at Floating World Comics (@floatingworldcomics) all month, but the opening thingy is tomorrow (Thursday, January 05) from 5-7pm. The last few images are detail shots of some of the monsters I drew. Hope to see you there!

#inkdrawings #originalart #firstthursdayportland #floatingworldcomics #sophiefranz #fareldalrymple https://www.instagram.com/p/CnAD8RlpjZQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[doopliss]

Grand Central Tragedy.

[plslala]

"flower pot" 2018

for Lagon Revue Marécage http://revuelagon.com/