#doggo studios

[jdweiss]

This Friday in Brooklyn, @pyritepress & Doggo Studios are kicking off @comicartsbrooklyn with another Zoetrope comics and animation showcase, w/ work from friends and @ghostscouts cousins and a small @frogdogloghogfog piece from myself.

[daygloayhole]

"Your Black Friend" animated short film by Alex Krokus & Krystal Downs, narrated by Ben Passmore.

“Your Black Friend” written and narrated by Ben Passmore. Animation by Krystal Downs & Alex Krokus of Doggo Studios, sound by James Deangelis. From the 120 page comics collection “Your Black Friend and Other Strangers” debuting in March 2018 from Silver Sprocket. Direct pre-order: https://goo.gl/f4pa3X ISBN: 978-1-945509-20-9 | Diamond: STL070802 Ben Passmore: http://benpassmoreart.com Doggo Studios: https://vimeo.com/doggostudios Silver Sprocket: http://www.silversprocket.net

[jdweiss]

This Thursday in Brooklyn, @pyritepress and @doggostudios are presenting Zoetrope, showcasing some comics and animation from some friends and @ghostscouts, and I'll have a couple previously unprojected @frogdogloghogfog pieces in there as well.

[yasbxxgie]

Animated Short Your Black Friend Is All About the Racism of Silence

In Ben Passmore’s comic Your Black Friend, a black man sits in a cafe and watches as one white person diligently ignores the casual, anti-black racism of another. On some level, both of the white folks know that what they’re doing is wrong, but neither of them is willing to acknowledge it.

But Your Black Friend isn’t actually about either of the casually-racist white people at the back of the cafe. Its real focus is on what it’s like to be a black man who is out with his white friend specifically while witnessing this kind of thing. Your Black Friend hones in on the unique kind of indirect bigotry that springs up when people who don’t see themselves as racists fail to call out racism when they see it—something that not everyone understands is dangerous in its own way.

Your Black Friend conveyed how that willful ignorance makes people complicit in systems of discrimination, but the point is driven home even better in a newly-animated short film from Doggo Studios that’s based on the comic. Narrated by Passmore, the animated Your Black Friend has an added dimension of nonchalant vexation that perfectly matches the story being told.

These are the sort of racially-charged annoyances that every single person of color is all too used to dealing with. Take notes, white people.