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my family is like if a whole bunch of black sheep tried to form their own family which sounds sweet and wonderful in theory and it is in many ways but also those sheep have all the emotional issues from years of being black sheep that they never went to therapy about. and then also my sister becomes the black sheep of the black sheep family because she is cool and popular.
vaporizing him with my mind (jk) (I would never do that)
can’t fully blame anyone jn my family for being bad at calmly articulating their needs and communicating, all their parents were fucked, but also they’ve sure had a long time to figure it out
Im on the other side of the world they got crazy animals here
Riga, Latvia
Thank you so much @shilohta !
uncertain abt where i will be sleeping tonight. ive tucked a smallish dog into my bed. i guess i will curl up in the corner..as an action of love
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I really really like your work but sometimes I feel like 90% of the jokes go over my head. Can you recommend me anything to read/watch/experience to better understand your comics?
Of course. One of my biggest influences is the cartoonist B.Kliban. While best known for his distinctive cat drawings, most of his cartooning output was single-panel work.
Much of it is easily understandable language or visual puns, but many of his funny works are just unusual situations, with no obvious meaning:
(I think that "Household Hint" could be considered a spiritual forerunner of Tiktok ragebait food videos.)
In his 1975 collection titled "Cat," among many funny cat comics, there are several pages which are just drawings of his beloved cats.
I feel a strong connection to Kliban's approach: Direct contour-line drawing, mostly anonymous characters in novel situations, and few traditional long-term narrative stories. And yet, there are recurring visual trends. (Have you noticed that he only draws one kind of cat?)
It is said that we train our audiences, in form or content. Over time, the reader knows what to expect from an author.
I think that a lesson can be derived from this graphic design manual.
(from Notes on Graphic Design And Visual Communication by Gregg Berryman, 1979.)
I believe we can draw a correlation between broadly-defined "art" (comics, painting, drawing, sculpture, video, etc.) and logo design:
With low "abstraction" (depending upon references that many people will get, explaining things in extremely explicit terms), material will be readily understood, but it is hard to separate this material from other stuff out there. It's harder to have your individual voice known.
With high "abstraction" (sharing weird comics, but consistently over a long period of time with many people,) an artist can have their message understood- or at least received enthusiastically- even if they're weird.
I drew this yesterday. It is probably understandable as both a humorous criticism of gamer-centric marketing and also as a visual-verbal pun to most English speakers under 40. I'm not sure if "Gamer Butter" would be accepted readily without people being familiar with other drawings I've made which lampoon consumerism and gadget culture.
B.Kliban and I have had the good fortune to share our works widely enough to have such a special relationship of artist and viewer, who accept the less understandable material alongside the more easily digestible. Thank you for the kind comment and question.
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), Tarot, Major Arcana.
Shin bijutsukai - Kōrin Furuya - 1902 - via Internet Archive
my experience of being a nonwhite child of a white liberal parent (but I suspect others experience it too) is that the parent deeply wants to believe that you the child are exempt from all the bad experiences of the world (like any parent would, probably, but with a particular liberal dimension of naïveté.) but the thing is you aren’t immune which leads to the type of situations whwre you actually feel vindicated when you’re getting your groin pat down from TSA on fhe family trip
Nøkken by Theodor Kittelsen
in it’s true form and disguised as a white horse
crazy whiplash going from a beautiful idyllic five days of vacation with my gay lover immediately into visiting my white Christian family (sans gay lover) with my mother
drawing restraint: trying to trace cat but cat is trying to eat the tracing object.
Альбом революционной сатиры 1905-1906 гг. - 1926 - via Internet Archive
its so sad that san Francisco is currently a vibe desert..... once hailed as possibly the vibeyest place in America, this fertile ground is now almost entirely gone, and the average san franciscan has to drive upwards of 10 miles outside of the city to catch even one vibe
