#david willis

[smsomah]

Peru. Date of photograph: 1969 - David Willis

[ardiebeaphotography]

Both these Baby Bi's have Broken Brains

Joyce, fighting her way out of fundamentalism, and Dorothy, disentangling herself from the Achievement Imperative are very much partners in their individual struggles. Consider the following...

Ok, illustrative, not exhaustive; there's plenty of other, better strips that I can't quite put my finger on immediately that make similar points. They give each other space to be their contrasting selves. They challenge one another. They express concern and compassion for each other. They value the other's differences. And as much as I, a former fundie, read the strip primarily through Joyce's experience, re-reading shows me how very dysfunctional Dorothy has been, too. Sure, their shared journey makes them enablers of each other's dysfunction at times, and they have used their individual rebellions against their old attitudes to justify things unjustly, but they're very much on parallel tracks. And that works for them.

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Delta of Age

[valdvin]

The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

And I hate, in fact, that I gotta hand it to Raidah.

[vivian-the-barbarian]

I really love comics for their potential as a visual art form, and so I really love that Willis decided to give each of these characters a different set of squeans (the little bubbles that appear around a cartoon character's head when intoxicated) to represent... I think different levels of intoxication? Or different effects

Becky is having a drunken panic attack with the traditional bubbles, Dina still has her wits about her but is discovering an alcohol intolerance with a variety of X's and asterisks, and Amber is turning into a sad disaster with kind of a Saturn's-Rings thing going on.

or maybe Willis just thought it would be more visually interesting to give them all different squeans, instead of six panels of faces with identical bubble effects all over.

[whyareyoulikethisbro]

Hey for the people who celebrated DoAs new moderator can you explain to me why a person whose first post was threats and insults is allowed to tone police PoC complaints about race situations in the comic if they arent sugar coated and show a bit of frustration? I thought we agreed that shit wasnt ok years ago on twitter. People should not have to jump through hoops that change on a whim to critique your representation if you actually care and arent just pretending wack'd. Also, dont care if other white people dont think its being racist so dont bother, or do Im not your mom.

[the-ivesofmarch]

david willis: i need a character who you wouldnt expect to perform this act of self sacrifice, but, given some thought, it makes total sense! oh, what to do, what to do

the everpresent and venerable Michael J. Warner:

[ancoraunpianobi]

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