Comics & Sequential Art Blog

Philippa Blenkey's Comics & Sequential Art Blog for Uni.

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My friend Philippa (not pictured here- her carrot scarf) @pokiepip

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Yey it me 😘

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Illustration of chapter 17 of Blood Music by Greg Bear (sci fi champion).

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Illustration of a poem by Vegan Revolution for Creative skills at uni.

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Stay busy.

(I’m ok)

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You’ll Change Your Mind

Reference List

1) DOCTORS DENYING STERILISATION - http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/female-sterilisation-women-childfree_uk_58aefdcae4b05ca474a16010

2) THINGS PEOPLE SAY TO CHILDFREE WOMEN - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/09/23-things-never-say-childfree-woman_n_3895114.html

3) CHILDFREE WOMEN PERCENT -http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2075038/The-childless-generation-How-women-aged-45-childless-refuse-aisle.html

4) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/24/proportion-women-never-have-children-has-doubled-generation/

5) REGRET /WOMEN - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10362150

6) REGRET /MEN - http://www.contraceptionjournal.org/article/S0010-7824(10)00320-3/fulltext

7) CHILDREN IN CARE - https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/child-protection-system/england/statistics/

8) POPULATION - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

9) EXTINCTION - http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/biodiversity/biodiversity/

10) DIAPERS / COMPUTERS - http://www.greencontributor.com/index.php/human-foot-print.html

11) ANIMALS- http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/you-eat-more-7000-animals-5295321 (lbs of meat calculated from http://www.greencontributor.com/index.php/human-foot-print.html  )

12) GARBAGE HUMANS - http://www.wisegeek.org/how-much-garbage-does-a-person-create-in-one-year.htm

13) FACEBOOK POLL - https://www.facebook.com/groups/2204852343/?multi_permalinks=10155084853372344&notif_id=1512398936430409

Thank you!

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Instagram post by DogsBeingBasic™ • Nov 10, 2017 at 10:51pm UTC

61.2k Likes, 3,639 Comments - DogsBeingBasic™ (@dogsbeingbasic) on Instagram: “Bye children. ✋🏻✋🏻✋🏻 Via @menshumor Twitter emm_woo”

Reason #35235 not to have kids.

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If You're Single and Don't Have Kids, Tracee Ellis Ross Has a Message For You

"It's really interesting to be a woman, and to get to 45, and to not be married, and to not have kids."

“it’s never too late for your life to have meaning,”

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I Love You, America

In this week's monologue Sarah Silverman talks about her love for kids vs. her choice not to have them. I Love You, America is now streaming on Hulu. #ILYAmerica

Sarah Silverman is bae.

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A WOMAN has decided against having children because it is loads of hassle.

“I’ve just never been that arsed about having a kid, in the same way I’ve never been that bothered about stamp collecting. I’m not against it, I’m just not into it.”

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Pope Francis: not having children is selfish

Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies, pontiff tells audience in St Peter’s Square

It’s official. The pope thinks I’m an asshole.

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What It Really Feels Like To Be A Childfree Woman

A lot has been written lately about the growing trend of childfree households. I have read

“Yes, we are all born with the biology to give birth, but we’re not all meant to be mothers. Becoming a mother is a personal decision that all women have the right to decide for themselves without external influence or societal pressure.”

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My choice to live child-free | Christen Reighter | TEDxMileHighWomen

In our society, we often assume that women will become mothers. But statistically, one in five American women will not have a biological child. In this power...

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Physicians may have “their own personal set of rules as to who it is or is not appropriate to perform a sterilization on.” 

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COMIC INFORMATION SOURCES

PATREON COMIC

Page 1/ 2/ 3 : https://www.patreon.com/about , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patreon

Page 1 : https://patreonhq.com/membership-is-the-future-for-creators-fc2902b8c16d

Page 4 : Yearly comic sales figures from www.comichron.com/yearlycomicssales.html Figures include US & Canada sales only

Page 5 : Active users information from https://www.patreon.com/about . Creator 1 : https://www.patreon.com/randowis . Creator 2 : https://www.patreon.com/lackadaisy

Page 6 : https://www.patreon.com/careers

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SLIDE INFORMATION SOURCES

SUE COE PRESENTATION

SLIDE 2 IMAGE : https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/sue-coe

Information on slide 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 : https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/sue-coe

Information on slide 4 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Coe

SLIDE 4 IMAGE : https://torontopigsave.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/4-gassing-hogs.jpg

SLIDE 6 IMAGE : https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/244812929720697782/ (Original not available via TIME magazine)

SLIDE 8 IMAGE : https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Meat-Sue-Coe/dp/156858041X

SLIDE 9 IMAGE : http://graphicwitness.org/coe/enter.htm

SLIDE 10 IMAGE (left) : https://www.facebook.com/SueCoeGSE/photos/a.151528412068.156744.136403302068/151530432068 “The Government Inspector” Sue Coe 1991

SLIDE 10 IMAGE (right) : https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Meat-Sue-Coe/dp/156858041X

Information on slide 11 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Coe

SLIDE 11 IMAGES: Image 1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/933072.Pit_s_Letter

Image 2: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/933065.Sheep_of_Fools

Image 3: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15827196-cruel

Image 4: http://www.vegan-magazine.com/2016/12/09/the-animals-vegan-manifesto/

SLIDE 12 IMAGE : http://vegan-art.tumblr.com/post/45391753793/its-a-picnic-sue-coe

SLIDE 13 IMAGE : http://www.graphicwitness.org/coe/poacher.jpg

Quote on slide 13 : https://youtu.be/_gxiXyHZJ1Y?t=1927

SLIDE 14 IMAGE : https://www.wikiart.org/en/sue-coe/meat-fly

SLIDE 15 IMAGE : https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bb/11/a1/bb11a1432889e8bfed666e2551f8d951.jpg unknown artist

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Sketches for Patreon Comic.