Missing Obsession

gentler, softer, warmer, kinder trying to live a life of intentionality

[officialrapunzelfitzherbert]

free/pay what you want printable pdf!

i am once again making a silly little zine abt covid safety but this time it is very unserious and not educational at all so if ur new here and dont know what the Heck i am on about. here's a place to start!

id:

slide 1:

a photo of the front cover of a black & white printed zine held up in front of a quilt in the background. top text of the zine cover reads: "reasons I love wearing my mask in public" with bottom text in parentheses: "besides the on-fire garbage can that is public health these days." a cartoon drawing of Maria, a pale genderfluid person with a buzzcut and glasses, is winking and doing a peace sign. she is wearing a boat-style mask with a star mask chain and crayon earrings.

slide 2:

top text: "1: I haven't had a man tell me to smile in 6 years." Below is a drawing of Maria walking down the sidewalk wearing a black mask, a cat cropped t-shirt, patched jeans, & star earrings. They are carrying a Mitski tote bag and look unbothered with their eyes closed as a man who looks a lot like the distracted boyfriend meme holds up a finger as if he was about to speak, but just looks confused as his speech bubble reads "..." Bottom text: "I simply cannot go back."

slide 3:

Top text: "2: I don't have to make facial expressions." Below Maria is waving and wearing a polo shirt, blank face emoji earrings, & an apron that says "JOB" with a name tag attached. Maria stares blankly behind her mask. Bottom text: "autism wins!"

slide 4:

Top text: "3: I can sing to myself on walks without being spotted by traffic." Below is Maria strolling down the sidewalk with cars in the background, wearing a mask, a baseball cap, and a Phantom of the Opera t-shirt. Maria has a speech bubble of floaty text singing "aangel of muuusic" with music notes floating around.

slide 5:

Top text: "4: mask chains!" below is a boat-style mask with a mask chain made of letter beads that spell "yippee." Bottom text: "another layer of accessory-maxxing."

slide 6:

Top text: "5: adds to my aura of being the mysterious and unknowable coworker." Below Maria stands in their job apron with a black mask & mushroom earrings surrounded by question marks. Text around Maria reads "what do they look like??" "we are literally on the clock!!" "wouldn't you like to know weatherboy!!"

slide 7:

Top text: "6: nobody knows I'm eating fruit snacks." Below is Maria with her mask on wearing strawberry earrings looking nonchalant as text points to her saying "maria acting normal." In the bottom left corner we see through the mask like an x-ray showing Maria chewing as she holds a scooby-doo gummy. Text pointing to this drawing reads "the REAL maria."

slide 8:

Back cover of the zine shows Maria shrugging wearing a striped shirt, overalls with a heart patch on the front, and worm earrings. Top text: "of course none of these things are more important than keeping you & your community safe from preventable illnesses but if for some wild reason you don't care about that. this is everything the government doesn't want you to know!!" Below is the instagram logo and Maria's handle: @maria.therese.art

[recklessmoss]

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[recklessmoss]

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[pmamtraveller]

Party Pooper by Matty Newton

[hometoursandotherstuff]

This cute 1925 Mission Revival house in Milan, TN already has a pending sale. 3bds, 2ba, 2,044sqft, Reduced $25k to $125k.

The owner liked faux textured walls and I don't mind them. They kind of simulate stucco. The floors look freshly done. You can't beat the price of this house.

It has beautiful doors.

Very nice. This is a side entrance.

The dining room.

The kitchen matches the color of the house. This is cute.

This must be the primary bedroom.

Cute 2nd bedroom.

The hallway to the bedrooms.

Bedroom #3.

Interesting. there's a bath.

Original vintage bath.

This is nice, a big family room.

And, look at this- it has a porte cocher and nice garage in the back, plus a gazebo in the yard. For $123k, I would buy it. 0.71  acre lot.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3061-Highland-St-Milan-TN-38358/461681122_zpid/?

[pnglove]

pie pngs ♡

[pnglove]

[prokaryartsllc]

Art fight revenge :)

[chirpingfromthebox]

[pmamtraveller]

vintage Italian "Fazzoletto" (handkerchief) low table from the late 1970s or early 1980s.

[scoutology]

#crysobbing

[kattiiganvales]

their goodbye hurt but god i am so excited for a reunion.

just a couple of Wild Things

[beaubees]

Nasutoceratops Titusi 🌱

[thewebcomicsreview]

D'you mind taking a look at my webcomic here?

there’s only 40 pages up right now but I’m thinking of putting it on indefinite hiatus after the next chapter ends and any feedback I could use for my next webcomic attempt would be appreciated

Thanks in advance!

Sure! Enough politics. This is the Webcomics Review, so let’s review some webcomics! Something short and cute like this should be a good way to-

A, uh, good way to-

There’s an NPC in this crowd shot with no head and it’s freaking me out a little. 

That aside, I like how Jess, the blue haired girl, who is the outgoing protagonist, has both a more dynamic pose and is framed without anyone in front of her or behind her, thus making her stand out a little, while Steph, who is more shy and reserved, blends into the crowd a little more.. 

This, however, I hate everything about. After reading this page several times, I think the intended reading order is

There are quite a few issues with this intended eye-line (look how you expect my eye to go over “Oh hey, there she is!” twice). This is a nice looking layout, but it’s incredibly difficult to process. I actually had to read this page several times to figure out the intended order, which I’m only able to figure out because it’s the only order the conversation makes sense in. Doing fancy layouts like this that can be read easily is really hard, and you have to be an expert at giving the reader subtle clues as to where to go. 

If you want to do lots of cool layouts, give Gunnerkrigg Court a read, because it’s great at it (I analyze this page here). Otherwise, focus on clarity first. 

In the interest of saying something nice about this page, the expressions in panels 2, 3, and 6 are all pretty good.. 

While the art is unrefined in this comic, I actually like a lot of the expressions, like Steph’s here. 

H’okay.

So, Jess’s Word Balloon in panel 1 has a weird empty space it in. More foundationally, notice how this reads

GIRLS: We don’t. We’re just here for  NARRATION: The Interest Meeting Puckett High Cafeteria  GIRLS: Kyle Jiang.

Compare to a layout like

Ignoring my MS Paint Skillz for a second. If you break a line across two panels, they should flow into each other as smoothly as you can, which usually (but not always!) means setup on left, punchline on right, word balloons close to each other. 

While I don’t think I need to tell you your art isn’t the most technically sound and you should work to improve it, you’re doing a great job getting good expressions out of it

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Okay, caught up to the end. Now my full thoughts.

The Good

I actually like the art, even though it’s technically very poor, because you’re getting a lot of mileage out of it. A sports comic about girls fencing is a perfectly cromulent presence that I haven’t seen in a webcomic before. Jess and Steph have clear and defined personalities.

The Bad

You can’t put off learning to draw hands forever. You need to put a bit more pre-planning into your layouts to maximize clarity. The comic is pretty slow and there are a lot of pages where very little seems to happen. 

Overall

I think this comic is a pretty good first effort. Keep at it, and don’t be discouraged! 

[cubistemoji]

Hello! I made the above comic about ten years ago. Then I made a lot of other short minicomics. Now I am making another webcomic, this time about teenagers in a Soviet closed city where sci-fi things happen. It’s called Fragmentation and it looks like this.

Never give up!

Also you can read my new comic Fragmentation on my website, comicfury, webtoon or tapas I have the first two chapters completed and new pages will be posted every monday and tuesday, new scroll updates every monday. thank u

[ernestsewell]

“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; one day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hallow mockery; your prayers and hyms [sic], your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy – a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.”

— Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), from a speech given at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852.

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, more illustrations from the late 1800s of Japanese fireworks bursting into life. Taken from catalogues published by the British company CR Brock and Co

Photographs: courtesy of Yokohama City Central library

[theartofmoviestills]

Antonio Gaudí | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 1984