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17/04/2017

Today’s subject matter: Making Comics

I’m currently sitting alongside my best friend of the past 7 years and we’re making comics.  Since 2012, I have loved comics. Since 2013, I’ve wanted to make comics.. Along with wanting to create a lot of other things, such as music, paintings, stories and theatrical performances. Creating is the reason I am alive.  My favourite thing to listen to when making comics is Gerard Way’s 2014 debut album Hesitant Alien. This album is the perfect mix of chill and pumping, with songs like No Shows and Drugstore Perfume providing a thrilling listening experience during the creative process. It also helps that this man makes comics himself, so I feel as though I am channeling a small bit of his spirit in my work.  The process we’re currently using to make our ‘monthly’ comics through Mooncat Comics is as follows: - First comes the much important and needed idea, a small spark of inspiration. Our first comic, CAT, is loosely based upon a true story.  - Next comes the writing itself. As the writer, it is my job to provide an interesting tale that people will want to know the end of.  - After this comes the storyboards. It’s around this time that Meg, my best friend and Mooncat artist, might start playing around with character designs and that sort of thing.  - When I finish the storyboards, I send them to Meg, who does the beautiful art. She is the most talented artist I know, and even got accepted into Top Arts in New South Wales, a sort of best of the best of the art students from their state.  - Finally, I check over the piece, we send it off to our creative consultant, Lily, for approval and then we release it. 

If 14 year old me knew half of what 18 year old me had accomplished already, they would of been a lot more optimistic for what their future holds. 

It gets better. 

Thanks for tuning in

- Lee

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April Update

First, we have an Instagram, which you can find here:  https://www.instagram.com/mooncatcomics/

Second, Happy Easter. April’s comic has been written, and the storyboards are almost complete. I hope you all like it. 

Third, due to set backs with university and a complete lack of motivation, February's comic, The Power of Imagination, will be out shortly. Perhaps even tomorrow. It’s a very exciting one and I hope you all enjoy. 

Thank you for staying tuned, I promise you we will have more content shortly.

- Lee

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26/02/2017

Today’s subject matter: A man

A man stands on the side of the road. He looks left, then right, then left again before crossing the street. He safely gets to the other side.  On the other side of the street, he passes a woman breast feeding her baby. “Put a shirt on,” he says, “Nobody wants to see that!” He continues on his way.  Up ahead, a homeless man sits on the pavement with a sign written in scrawled hand writing: ‘Lost my job and house. Spare change?’ “I don’t have anything, I’m sorry.” The man lies. He continues on, down past the cafe where just last week, he went in and complained to the waitress that his coffee was cold, because he had let it sit for a little too long.  On the corner, a busker plays guitar, his loud voice ringing out across the street side. The man checks his pockets for coins.  “At least you’re having fun, right?” He comments as he puts his loose change into the boy’s open guitar case. 

The man finally arrives home, takes off his coat and hat and places them on the rack. He sits in front of the fire, with a plate of his wife’s finest home made cooking, and decides to spare her the comment of the meat being a bit over cooked.

Thanks for tuning in 

- Lee

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‘Changing Seasons’

Mooncat Comics is proud to present March 2017′s comic, ‘Changing Seasons’.  The comic will be released on National Trans Visibility Day, a day that is very important to Mooncat Comics. We shall also try to release two mini comics on the day as well.  Script has been written and read by both Meg and our lovely creative consultant, the dudliest of dudes, Lily. They seem to enjoy it. Now all I need to do is get out of this lazy slump and do the god damn draft pages. 

Stay tuned

- Lee

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Too many ideas

I keep coming up with comic ideas. This is wonderful for me, but horrible for my artsy counter part, who I will most likely be working with on new projects in the future.  I also plan to do a children’s book through Mooncat Comics with Meg, which will go great along side my other future comic books which include drugs, alcohol, abuse, mental illness..... Mooncat Comics will create a large variety of projects, I have no doubt....

- Lee

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20/02/2017

Today’s subject matter: Mouse

Hello little mouse What are you doing in my house? Wasting time out of the rain While I sit here and complain?

Hello little friend Will I have to come and mend The little wires you’ve come to chew Although I can see you’re not through

The day outside is shit Little mouse, come and sit I see you flushed and hurried Out of sight I see you scurry

However, I do not condone You, little mouse, inside my home Unfortunately for you There is no way you can live through

I am sorry, little mouse For this place is a slaughterhouse Run and hide while you can For your future is out of my hand

Thanks for tuning in

- Lee

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‘Quirky’ characters

I often try to include or create characters in stories of various gender identities, sexual orientations and races.  This isn’t a choice on my part to make everyone ‘quirky’ or ‘different’ from literally every other fucking comic or story book character. I create these characters because I know that one day there might be someone who reads the stories I create and say ‘I really relate to this character, here they are fighting crime, or saving their friends, or just plain falling in love, and I can relate to them because they’re ____’. As a trans person myself who cares not for gender roles or a label to defy their sexuality, I believe it’s very important that writers begin to add and include more characters who have a range of different sexualities or gender identities, because I’d love to find a character like me one day, fighting crime or flying off into outer space on some fucking quest. 

- Lee

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16/02/2017

Today’s subject matter: Revenge

The best revenge is something a person can’t escape. 

For a musician, the best form of revenge is a song. You write a catchy song using a certain someone as inspiration, and if that person listens to it, they may get it stuck in their heads.  You have not actually directly interacted with this person, they may of heard this song on the radio or YouTube, however, they felt like they have interacted with you on a personal level. Art is a powerful tool is used well.  I’m not a vengeful person, and I try to let go of things instead of creating a jealous fueled path of revenge and hate; I’m not an angry or negative person.  However, I tend to release my deepest darkest emotions and thoughts through the means of a song. I never intend for the people I write my songs about to hear them, what does it matter to them anyway? When you write a song about someone, what can they do? They can’t tell you to un-write the song, they can’t tell you to take it off YouTube, or to stop playing it. Unless it is a song saying they’re a horrid cow who doesn’t deserve to live, what actual power do they have of forcing you to stop singing or playing that song?  And if push comes to shove, you can always deny that the song has any relation to them at all. 

If you want to get back at someone, write them a song. Because you can get it off your chest while they’re getting it stuck in their heads. 

And that’s why revenge is a dish best served cold.

Thanks for tuning in

- Lee