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I love and also hate contemporary art. Blog ran by: Sven Mantsik. Check out my own art elsewhere. I specialize in animation, comics and videogames. I like art about: homosexuality, transmasculinity, feminism, transgression, poverty and mental illness. Things I can connect with.

[holdoncallfailed]

sophie calle, autobiographies (my mother died), 2013. (via)

[meowmorials]

2008

[karolinastast]

lino cut series, inspired by photos of the Trans - Antarctic expedition, lead by Sir Ernest Shackleton, photographed by Frank Hurley

prints available on instagram!

[evenlyevi]

Moonlight Dandelions

[weepingwidar]

Judit Reigl (Hungarian, 1923-2020), Éclatement (Bursting) (1955)

[neueclear-deactivated20260325]

“Out of Body” Artwork by Wani Souma

[random-brushstrokes]

Georges Joubin - Jessy and her little one (1925)

[the-night-picture-collector]

Stanley Kubrick, Love is Everywhere, 1946

[vecb-art]

Rainbow Creature Universe

11x17 risograph print up now 🕊️ www.vecb.art

[bugfoe]

Kicks the Habit

[gaybichon]

i think i found my new favorite artist on twitter

(source)

[thatartblog]

heartstrings I (2013) by selma alaçam

[mortalityplays]

the whole point of a zine is that it's cheap to produce, amateur and homemade. if you're being asked to apply to participate in a print project, it is not a zine. if the final product is being printed and bound professionally, it is not a zine. if you are being asked to enter into any kind of licensing agreement more complex than "my work can be reproduced as part of this publication" it is not a zine. nine times put of ten if the final product costs more than $5 you have left zine country. im so serious about this.

[mortalityplays]

this isn't snobby gatekeeping or imaginary semantic problems or whatever, this is an issue that has come up irl at cons and zine fairs local to me and which keeps coming up online. people who show up to trade fairs selling professionally printed $15 anthologies as 'zines' have a direct impact on the people trying to sell their $3 chapbooks at the next table over. submission based kickstarter projects that bill themselves as 'zines' exploit the connotations of amateur, punk production values to induce creators to work for less and eschew formal guarantees and protections they are entitled to.

[leog4u]

my favorite zines have all been $1 or free and printed on highlighter paper. i used to pick em up from a book store in chelsea that sold predominantly self published work, and had sections for zines. Some were about how to eat cheap in the city when most of your paycheck went to rent, others were talking about the best drag performances in town, and plenty of DIY stuff. all of them had the same unique quality: nobody but the author and their collaborators could've made this, and they wanted to make it easily accessible to the community

i kinda hate that the word that was used for extremely personal and cheap works is applied to essentially art books of your favorite anime OTP

[mortalityplays]

hi! sorry, real quick:

grab a piece of paper and fold it in half like a book

write "im indifferent to zines" on the cover

write "i've never been able to buy one" on the first page

write "and i'll never be in one" on the second page

write "just want to be a hater today" on the back

congrats you're in a zine! if you like you can photocopy it and sell it to art students, fellow haters, or anyone with a sense of humour. I'll buy one.

[zegalba]

Paul Cooper: 'Living Sculpture' (2001)

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The Little Art Connoisseur (1863) August Friedrich Siegert

[zegalba]

Crystal Schenk: Have and Have Not (2006)

[fallout-lou-begas]

something that i find interesting about independent animation nowadays is that if you don't have studio/streamer backing, you have to release your work yourself on the internet, but you have to do it for free on the internet because virtually nobody is going to be willing to accept a paywall just for one original show, so what you have to do in order to make any money off of it is make all of your money from merchandising, but then this means that you show must be merchandisable and have very toyetic character designs that translate easily to plushies and whatnot, but then you also need to cater your show to people who are disproportionately inclined to buy merchandise like that in the first place so that your sales can be enough to sustain you, which means that even if you want to communicate complex or difficult ideas in your work, your independent animation project must attract (at least on a first impression) and retain viewers who are both very consumerist and very capable of rabid passion, which unfortunately has a single-circle shaped venn diagram with a lot of the most toxic fandom tendencies known to man, and this explains a lot of things about independent animation and its fandoms nowadays I think