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I rarely reblog my own posts unless there's a specific update, but that means I'm also not very good at promoting where you can actually purchase my art!
You can get three digital (PDF) versions of my comics, "Queer Code," "Emet," and "Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight Days," and two SECRET EXTRA COMICS here: LINK
(The secret extra comics are the "R. J. Hill: Therapist" comics and the "Naruto: The Last King, The Last Priest" comic.)
"Queer Code," "Emet," and "Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight Days" are available as individual PDFs.
"Act Well Your Part" and "Emet" are available in print.
I have a limited number of my risograph illustration collections "Slap Your Cheeks for Color" and "Step Out Into Your Short Shorts."
Currently, I don't sell prints of my paintings because -- in all honestly -- there's been little demand for them, even when they were available through a print on demand website. If enough people express serious interest in prints, I'd consider trying again in the future.
I'm also thinking of creating color covers for print versions of "Queer Code" and "Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight Days," but that's kind of a back-burner idea at the moment.
Get three digital (PDF) versions of my comics, "Queer Code," "Emet," and "Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight Days," and two SECRET EXTRA COMICS.
(If you want to know what the secret extra comics are, see here)
Queer Code: An exploration/rant about "queer coding" in horror film and canon queers in pop culture; includes a recommendation guide to 20+ of my favorite horror films.
Emet: A short story about a woman and a Golem
Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight Days: Five comix on life and learning after seven hundred and seventy-eight days on testosterone.
This bundle costs less than what it would have cost to buy all five of these comics separately!
I have a new comic -- a real, physical one -- up for sale on my Etsy!
It’s $6 + shipping, and you get a sticker!
Because I have brainworms and want to infect everyone I can with them, I will be posting the whole thing here but the draw for the hard copy is a pretty color cover! And a sticker!
Read the whole thing below the cut and then maybe buy a copy.
Here’s the complete comic, compiled in one spot.
11/14/22: I’ve taken both “Naruto: The Last King, The Last Priest” and “Therapist R. J. Hill” off my etsy store. Both comics can be read, in their entirety, on this tumblr.
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Pages 20 and 21
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First page here
I was waiting to post these final pages until I'd completed the cover and done a couple other things to go along with this project, but I decided to quit being precious about it and just post the dang things.
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Pages 14 and 15
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Previous pages
First page here
So, previously I had all pages set to 90 lpi at 45 degrees, but suddenly CSP has decided it won't go higher than 85 lpi and the materials downloads that I'd gotten for higher lpi aren't working. I had to reconfigure the lpi and degree for the screentones, so these and subsequent pages may look slightly different.
I like CSP, but some of the functions remain a mystery to me. Either the available translated instructions/English guides aren’t detailed enough for me, or I’m trying to do things in such a weird, sideways approach, there aren’t instructions applicable to my problems.
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This is the first comic I’ve finished in about two years. I did the inks around July 2020 and finished it in Clip Studio Paint May 2021.
I don’t make this and post it as a way to fish for compliments; art is how I process shit.
I’m still trying to figure out screentones in CSP, still struggling with moire when viewed online.The inks were done entirely freehand, no pencils.This was also an experiment in doing "instagram-sized" work. I still prefer my work in physical comic book form, because that's how I envision the action/progression when I make comics.
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For my cousin.
(I'm still figuring out Clip Studio Paint.)
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Emet is now available for $5 as a PDF download!
LINK
Debuted this @shortrunseattle and now it’s up for sale in my etsy
“Emet” is a short story about a woman and a Golem – $10, plus shipping 5.5 x 8.5, 12 pages, full color choose media shipping and save money!
I hope to post something about the awesome time I had at Short Run, but it might be a little while because I have about three grad school assignments I’m working on. Also there’s an election tomorrow and I will either be drowning my sorrows or celebrating having dodged the Apocalypse.
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Check it out! My comix on queer coding in horror is available as a PDF! It has a digital exclusive: A recommendation list with brief reviews of 20+ horror movies!
LINK
Queer Code – hard copy $5!
So… this was originally gonna be a few pages explaining “queer coding” but the further I got in it, the more I had to say, so I chopped up the first few panels I made, rearranged them and added like 6 more pages.
When I heard they were making a tv version of “Preacher,” I decided to give the comics a read. I’d read some of Garth Ennis’ other stuff back in high school and I always heard him put up there with Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore.
By the end of the first arc in “Preacher,” I basically had to will-power my way through the rest of the comic because I wanted to know how it ended. Despite having read the whole damn thing only a few months ago, I can barely remember any of it, except for how utterly aggravated the whole thing made me. The most POSITIVE depiction of a queer character in the whole series is of a self-loathing gay cop who can only have sex with other men when they’re beating and humiliating him. THAT’S THE MOST POSITIVE DEPICTION OF A QUEER CHARACTER.
And then I recently read some contemporary manga
“Soil” – One canon queer character. A gay man who is a serial child molester.
“One Punch-Man” – One canon queer character. A gay man who is basically a walking prison rape joke.
“I Am a Hero” – One canon queer character. A transgender man who is repeatedly misgendered and insulted and ultimately dies. But he’s not a rapist or a murderer, so yay representation?
I’ll admit, this comic is coming from a place of anger and disappointment. That the Big Names in Serious Graphic Novels (some of which I really enjoy and really influenced me) still have so much homophobic/transphobic content. That a lot of contemporary comics haven’t progressed much further. I don’t expect every queer character to be a hero, but when you have a mere handful of queer characters and the majority of them die or are villains, it’s a problem. I’d rather see a body horror metaphor for queerness than see another shitty canon queer trope.
Shout out to my fellow queer comic book makers. Even if you’re just xeroxing comics in the campus computer lab and giving them to friends, you are doing good work.
And if Garth Ennis wants to argue that “Preacher” isn’t homophobic, I am ready to throw down in the alley behind my apartment. And by “throw down,” I mean “debate.”
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to celebrate 3 years on testosterone, here’s a tutorial on how I do my quick and dirty screentones
To celebrate my 3rd year of being on testosterone, I’m releasing my comix on transmasculinity as a PDF for $4!
THIS COMIC IS INTENDED FOR MATURE READERS -- contains nudity, cigarettes, alcohol, and descriptions of gender dysphoria
Five comix on life and learning after seven hundred and seventy-eight days on testosterone
1. Cleanliness/Manliness - the most important thing I have learned
2. Trans Boy's Complaint - negotiating identity in light of gendered perception
3. Nutrisco et Extinguo - on the myth of testosterone rage
4. Double Stellar Black Hole - the experience of gender dysphoria when you don't know being transgender is a thing that exists
5. Adam Kadmon - for the first transgender man I ever knew
40+ pages, PDF format.
Digital version here:LINK
Hard copy version here:LINK
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NOW AVAILABLE AS A PDF!
Several people contacted me about getting a digital version of my “Couple’s Therapy” comic, as the cost of shipping for the hard copy was prohibitive.
So you can now get this as a PDF download, for half the price of the hard copy, and no shipping!
Digital copy here: LINK
Hard Copy here: LINK
I'm hoping to make some of my original comix available as PDFs too. This is the first time I've done the digital purchase/download option, so I appreciate any feedback or notification if anyone runs into problems with the files.
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11/14/22 UPDATE: I’ve taken both “Naruto: The Last King, The Last Priest” and “Therapist R. J. Hill” off my etsy store. Both comics can be read, in their entirety, on this tumblr.
I mean... WOULDN’T YOU??
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I’ve added new stuff and restocked old stuff!
Check out my etsy!
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My latest strip for the Seattle Weekly!
People keep asking if I’m gonna move back to Texas after I get my master’s...
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