#whit taylor

[thenib]

Whit Taylor in our COLOR issue.

[thesociologicalcinema]

What Is Race? Just the Facts.

To determine whether races existed in humans, biologists compared genetic diversity in the human population to large mammals populations with similar geographic ranges.

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Q: What is race? A: Race is a biologically invalid, social construct that still manages to direct much of our private and public life, with real consequences. Society has pushed us to publicly identify with the race most associated with our physical traits, even though this may ignore less identifiable aspects of our ancestry. And it is not a reliable indicator of our genetic differences or similarities to each other. Artist: Whit Taylor / The Nib

[kushkomikss]

Excerpt from š! #30 ‘Brooklyn’ by Whit Taylor. Out now!

Order here

[whimsicalnobodycomics]

Hey Folks-

Here’s a piece that I contributed to Critical Chips, which was edited by Zainab Akhtar (Comics & Cola). Critical Chips was just nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Comics Related Periodical/Journalism! You can buy the book here.

[poorlyconveyed]

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]

[thenearsightedmonkey]

Dear Making Comics Students,

A page from a comic called “Ghost” by Whit Taylor.

Read the whole comic here.

Find our more about her here.

Comics cousins everywhere.

Professor Mandrake

[rosariumpublishing]

Congrats to Rosarians Whit Taylor and Micheline Hess for being nominated! Check out all of the amazing nominees over on the Glyph Comics Awards website! 

[penamerican]

“Weekend After” by Whit Taylor

Whit Taylor's family discusses racism, generational difference, and hope in this comic strip depicting the weekend after the election. Featured in State of Emergency: Artists Resist, an Illustrated PEN series.