Little Draws

the tumblr of lena h. chandhok

[erikamoen]

Until Friday 3/14/14, email me proof you donated to Scarleteen & I’ll send you the DAR! book PDFs. Donate: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/1433116 Email: http://www.erikamoen.com/contact/ The DAR! books have over a dozen comics not released online, plus other bonus content. Here’s all the deets on what’s in the DAR! books.

NOTE: Email is the only way to contact me, I do not read any messages sent through Tumblr mail nor any activity on my posts here.

Here is the run down on what Scarleteen is and why they need to raise some serious dollas or else they’ll be forced to shut down nearly all of their services to provide teens with free, comprehensive, gender-inclusive, judgement-free sex education.

[erikamoen]

Two days left to get in on this!

[lenachandhok]

This is a great way to simultaneously support a fantastic organization AND get your mitts on some excellent comics! Plus, in order to claim said comics, you get to spend twenty minutes agonizing over penning the perfect email to your comics hero. (Well, okay, maybe that last bit is just me. But still. Comics!)

[lenachandhok]

Guess what came in the mail this week? 

[raystarart]

I AM A GENIUS.

I really want to continue the Nonesuch Garden Club, but it’s not realistic for me to continue my zine, Craftomix. It’s too much work and a major point of stress in my life right now.

I’ve been trying to come up with an alternative project that would still be fun, collectable, and monthly. I was thinking about trading cards… But then I had a stroke of genius.

I was obsessed with CLAMP as a kid and collected anything and everything I could get my hands on that featured their artwork. Magic Knight Rayearth was my favorite story. I have FOUR decks of MKR playing cards that I collected as cheap alternatives to art books. They are some of the only things I’ve kept over the years because they are beautiful AND functional.

There are 52 weeks in a year. There are 52 cards in a deck of playing cards. If I draw one, small illustration a week for a year, I can make a deck of playing cards. I could send my club members a few cards each month. At the end of the year, they will have a full deck to admire and play with!

Eh? Eh!!!???

[lenachandhok]

Megan is totally a genius, you guys.

[lenadrawscomics]

The weather’s getting cold again. Time to put on all your layers and drink a lot of tea.

[lenachandhok]

Reblogging 'cause I'm chilly.

[lenadrawscomics]

I treated myself to a bang trim and some new Photoshop brushes today! Both of these things will be showing up in future drawings.

(The brushes I used are from Kyle Webster's fantastic “Ultimate MegaPack” and “Real Watercolor” brush packs.)

[lenachandhok]

Reblogging for the afternoon crowd!

[mkreed]

So probably you’ll want to start with Faith Erin Hicks

Blue Monday- Chynna Clugston. Like Archie but set in the 80’s with more New Wave + smoking & swears.

Hopeless Savages by Jen Van Meter- A family of punk rock legends raising their 4 kids to be awesome people, this is all the stories…

[firstsecondbooks]

Need something great to read this weekend (while you wait for Rainbow and Faith to finish their collaboration). One of our favorite authors, MK Reed, has a great suggestion list!

[lenachandhok]

This is a fantastic reading list for pretty much anyone, to be honest. (Plus, I'm loving the shoutout to fellow CCSer Melanie Gillman!)

[bisexual-community]

Common Myths About Bisexuality from the lovely personal memoir in a web comic format “Jesus Loves Lesbians, Too” by bi blogger & author Maria Burnham (writer/memoirist) and Maggie Siegel-Berele (comic artist). Remember Bisexuals are just people who can ♥ people of SAME/SIMILAR Gender as themselves + can ♥ people of DIFFERENT Genders/Gender Presentations from themselves. All the rest of it about must be Exactly 50%/50%; can’t be/can’t ♥ trans/genderqueer people; the 3 C’s: Confused; Closeted + sex-Crazed; must always be poly + can’t be monogamous; yadda, yadda, yada, are just hooey + nonsense made up by haters and fools.

[alafrenais]

I usually don’t reblog stuff like this because this is my art blog but this hit close to home and reminded me of so many conversations that made me feel like garbage.

[rosalarian]

It always makes me see red when I see lesbians (and gay men) treating bisexuals this way. I don’t think I can even type too much more without quickly reaching a point where I just smash my head into the keyboard.

[sowideasea]

jesus christ, Maggie, look how many notes this has.

[followingshade]

Holy crap.  That is a humbling amount of notes.  Thank you for reading, guys :D

[lenachandhok]

Maggie and Maria do great work, and they speak the truth.

[shortvideosandstuff]

Fish on Wheels

[lenachandhok]

Finally, the science behind Ms. Skrimshaw's bubble car is revealed!

(Image from Aaron Renier's Spiral Bound, which you should totes read if you haven't already--or reread if you have!)

[northwestpress-blog]

Our big 25% off sale ends today! Get any NWP Original graphic novel, collection, or comic in print at 25% off the cover price! Includes all our releases, including popular favorites like The Legend of Bold Riley and our latest book QU33R! (Get the hardcover for $29.99 instead of $39.99 because MATH!)

http://northwestpress.com/product-category/nwp/

[queercomicsconnection]

Go get you some comics! Why not check out Rob Kirby’s QU33R anthology, which features our very own Queerotica editor/contributor Sasha Steinberg as his glamorous superheroine drag persona ~*~Sasha Velour~*~!

[lenachandhok]

This is a pretty great deal! Northwest Press publishes some phenomenal comics, so get on over there and take a look! If you're plagued by indecision, I highly recommend Anything That Loves: Comics Beyond "Gay" and "Straight", which features work from fantastic artists like Erika Moen, Bill Roundy, Kate Leth, and even myself!

[mollyostertag-deactivated202310]

very very silly Photoshop pun valentines

[careydraws]

Molly started something amazing with her Photoshop pun valentines! The world needs more of them so you should add ‘em on below.

[lenadrawscomics]

Photoshop and puns—my two true loves! ♥ 

[lenachandhok]

Internet, will you be my Valentine?

[lenadrawscomics]

Two more hourlies! Making comics while traveling is tough. I’ll be excited to ink these once we arrive and scan ‘em when we get back.

[lenachandhok]

The next few hourlies! Drawing on the train is a thing that happened.

[lenadrawscomics]

Happy Hourly Comics Day! I’m startin’ to sketch out my first few hours.

[lenachandhok]

Starting today, I'll be posting all my comics work at my new tumblr, Lena Draws Comics. I'm kicking off with some hourly comics, since it's that time of year again. Enjoy!

[wolfdrone]

Out of Skin by Emily Carrol

Horror works when it upsets the boundary between life and death, the mundane and sublime.

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[lenachandhok]

This is a well-written, thoughtful review of a wonderfully creepy comic. I'd love to see more comics criticism like this! Well done, Sloane and Emily both.

[queercomicsconnection]

UPDATE!!

We received the final word from RIBBON this morning. As we feared, they suspended our account because of their policy against “adult material.” This is outrageous because their terms and conditions only mentions a restriction on “obscene material and child pornography.” The QUEEROTICA anthology is neither obscene nor illegal. It is a collection of thoughtful and artistically rendered erotic stories. It is no more obscene than a romance novel, and those are all over the damn internet. The only difference is that our characters have queer bodies and identities.

Unfortunately, RIBBON will not budge on their policies. A little too late we learned that other queer erotica artists have also struggled with RIBBON. Please read about prolific gay comics creator Dale Lazarov’s experience here.

He writes: “Six months later, they dumped me without telling me — even though I’d cordially, continually agreed to all the changes they asked of me so I could continue publishing with them during the period following my conversation with their CEO. They blocked me from accessing my sales records when they discontinued my account so I don’t know what they actually owe me, which is excessively punitive. The CEO wouldn’t let me access them, either, when I asked.”

Needless to say, we will not be pushing forward with our RIBBON store. But we offer our story as a warning for anyone who wants to make Queer Erotic work available online! We are contacting Bleeding Cool and other comics tips organizations, because it is important for queer creators to know which online venues are not friendly to us and our work!

BUT FEAR NOT, another option is underway. It may be a few more days before it is ready, but we are confident that it will be a more reliable and easy-to-use option! More details soon, and thanks for your patience.

[melgillman]

Reblogging this because BOOOOOO RIBBON.  Sorry you guys have to wait a little longer for Queerotica — I’ll send up a signal flare as soon as a store run by not-jerks has been set up :(

Companies with arbitrary no-“adult”-content rules — usually meaning “gratuitous violence and gore and death and stuff is totally fine, but NO HAPPY PEOPLE HAVING CONSENSUAL SEX >:(” — are pretty high on my list of least-favorite-things.

[lenachandhok]

Ugh. I am incredibly disappointed and frustrated with RIBBON. Obviously third-party storefronts have the right to restrict the content they feel comfortable selling, but the fact that Ribbon suspended the Queerotica team's account after assuring them that their content wouldn't be a problem reflects poorly on Ribbon as a business. I haven't been able to verify whether they restrict heterosexual erotica, since searching for "ribbon.co stores" gets me nothing but craft boutique websites, but the fact that other queer cartoonists have had issues with them doesn't instill me with a ton of confidence. BOOOOOO RIBBON, indeed.

If anybody knows of a good online storefront that has better business practices, please let the Queerotica team know! It's a fantastic anthology, and everyone should have the chance to read it. :)

[peoplesrepublicofpaul]

State Of The Union, page 11. (Final Page!)

[lenachandhok]

It's about time we started addressing amphibian rights in this country. Also, I really recommend reading the whole story on Paul's tumblr rather than on your tumblr dashboard or Facebook. You can see the images at a higher resolution in their full glory, as they were meant to be experienced*!  *Well, almost. We're still working on that 3D technology.

[lenachandhok]

Happy Halloween from me and Paul!

[lenachandhok]

Practicing my makeup for tomorrow night. (Don't worry, I'll be covered in red dots in the final version.) Doing eye makeup without my glasses on is HARD!