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I’m reading a comic from one of my favorite artists and the doppelgänger of @vulture-kitty made an appearance 😂
Even wilder, the two main characters look exactly like my best friend and her boyfriend. This comic is full of all kinds of people I know!
I want to! finish this! some day! A draw your own character in other people's style thing. I got kinda tired with it towards the end and then forgot about it for...a couple of months.
Goddess acknowledgments day #2: Comics
Biggest comics inspiration for The Goddess of Drought is Annie Mok, whose comics are incredible at illustrating trauma and its echoes. I come back to Body Language, Shadow Manifesto, and especially Swim Thru Fire (illustrated by Sophia Foster-Dimino) again and again. She depicts characters with kindness even as they go through unkind times in a way that I aspire to. I'm really looking forward to her memoirs, to be illustrated by Carta Monir. Other snippets: Noelle Stevenson's diary comic, about how society can reward traumatic weight loss and forced femininity. G. E. Gogarty's "Times I Made My Ex-Bf Cry" (pts 1 & 2) covers similar topics to The Goddess of Drought in a nearly opposite (= super funny) tone. I think about the careful vignettes and twisty narrative of Whit Taylor's Ghost a lot. Along with Annie Mok, Wendy Xu, Yumi Sakugawa, Aatmaja Pandya, and MariNaomi are inspirational Asian-American women in comics. I wouldn't have found many of these cartoonists without the We Should Be Friends podcast, so thank you. I also would not have known how to layout or print my comic without the sage advice in the Dirty Old Ladies podcast -- C. Spike Trotman's writing and Amanda Lafrenais's gorgeous screentones were a constant inspiration. Lastly, Scott Pilgrim by Bryan O'Malley and Octopus Pie by Meredith Gran (which just ended after a decade!) have been storytelling touchstones for me since I started making comics. Thank you.
Download The Goddess of Drought! [48 pgs, 10.2MB, free]
Also a Lucy sketch I got at TCAF by @littlefroggies who I apologize for visiting last and therefore having almost no money to spend on.
Smash Pages Q&A: Amanda Lafrenais on ‘FTL, Y’ALL’ and more
Amanda Lafrenais is the creator behind the webcomics Love Me Nice and Titty Time. She’s one of the co-hosts and editor of the Dirty Old Ladies podcast. She’s also an editor who worked on the Iron Circus anthology Tim’rous Beastie and the new anthology FTL, Y’ALL: Tales from the Age of the $200 Warp Drive. The anthology has an incredible premise that attracted creators who readers will know, along with plenty of newcomers.
Lafrenais’ webcomics show a range of artistic and storytelling influences. She clearly understands comics and it’s been fascinating to see her guide two very different anthologies, overseeing very different artists than herself. Lafrenais is a great talent and I took the opportunity to ask her about the new anthology, the graphic novel she’s drawing and her own comics.
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I received yesterday my Kickstarter package for Love Me Nice volume1! Ai’t they all lovelies? All this thanks to the amazing @amandalafrenais‼
J’ai reçu hier mon paquet de Kickstarter pour le tome 1 de Love Me Nice! Sont-y pas choupinous? Tout ça grâce à la merveilleuse @amandalafrenais‼
I did a redraw of the drawing @littlefroggies did of my Spirit Girl and she looks so much better this way. Today’s been a great day
Thank you so much to the amazing Amanda Lafrenais for this Jenalightyear portrait! I am so happy with it. <3
