by Wai Wai Pang
Hand watercoloured intaglio monoprint!
Hardground etched copper plate. It’s pretty small (the plate), like 3x4 inches or something.
by Linda Tran
COMICS FOREVER. IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT ANYONE ELSE IS DOING AND IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT ANYONE ELSE THINKS ABOUT YOUR ART. JUST DO IT BECAUSE IT FEEL GOOD.
(but learn if ya gotta)
Some great work and great words from April Kasulis.
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My cover design and others’ (including Alyssa Liles‘ design which actually made it to print) are on the CityPages site! Check it out!
This is a project I feel very hopeful to see fruition and have personally backed already.
There are amazing people who are working on it and it’s for a great cause.
Give it some support if you can!
Little Heart is a comic anthology created to show support for marriage equality, produced in partnership with 2D Cloud & [MN]Love and YOU. The comics included in the volume cover a variety of material, from auto-bio, science fiction, intimate vignettes, romantic incidentals; work created to show that love strikes all walks of life.
This project was spawned by the very urgent need to fight the 2012 referendum that seeks to instill discrimination and hate in the Minnesota state constitution. Since Little Heart’s inception, the project has grown. The reason for the growth is that the issue itself is bigger than Minnesota. Which is why we have enlisted artists across the US, Canada, and a small sampling of international artists.
With this book, our desire is to help get people talking about marriage equality. Little Heart was not created with the idea to shove any ideology down your throat. Instead, it was created to illustrate that relationships and love should be left to individuals to discover on their own. Our hope is that, this is exactly what this book will allow us to show.
Should we raise enough funds for this project to be a success, a portion of the proceeds from sales of the comic will go towards the non-profit [MN]Love — allowing them to keep fighting for marriage equality, tolerance, and love.
WHY KICKSTARTER:
Coming in at 170+ pages, perfect bound, 5” x 6”, featuring color as well as black and white — this book is going to be a looker. It’s also going to be a little spendy to produce. The production costs are about 4k to pay the artists and another 4.5k to print the book at Bang Printing, here in Minnesota. Using Kickstarter as a sort of pre-order platform will allow us to print 1000 copies and pay the artists. Should we exceed our goal, extra funds will go towards increasing the print run, higher production values, and paying the artists a higher rate.
WHO ARE THE ARTISTS:
Tuesday Bassen, Emma Reynolds, Tim Sievert, Michael DeForge, Alex Fukui,Ellen Redshaw, Anna Bongiovanni, Hannah Blumenreich, Megan Tulius,Hedwig Vinson + Rachel Kowarski, Christopher Adams, Milkyboots, Luke Holden, Ed Choy + Sam Sharpe, Tammy Ray, Noah Van Sciver, Sally Madden,Jeremy Sorese, Emily Carroll + Kate Craig, Sean Lynch, Joseph Remnant,MariNaomi, Maurice Vellekoop, Zak Sally, Meghan Hogan; with Christopher Butcher handling the introduction/foreword.
“Lol, gurl wut r u hiding”
In 6th grade, a boy sitting next to me in art class made fun of the birthmark on my forehead. Something like this every day in 5th period for months. As a child, I wasn’t yet aware of my body as an object, or as being subject to a certain gaze. I became hurt and ashamed, and began to think of ways in which I could conceal my birthmark from sight. For about nine years now, I’ve used my hair as a means of hiding.In May of 2011, I created a photographic project in which I photographed myself, for the first time, without covering my birthmark. This attempted “fuck you” wasn’t nearly as empowering as I had hoped it would be, and seeing said photograph printed at 16x20 only frightened me.
“Lol, gurl wut r u hiding” is an attempt to explore the absurdities of my shame, the silliness and seriousness of hiding, my fear of the gaze, and my failure to silence the bullying, even after all this time.
Drawing and color version of my second maze illustration. Still unsure what the title of this one will be. Also, I added some more detail and changed a couple of other things since I took these screen caps of the work (and still plan to add some more small details before all is said and done, but I’m going to call it done for now and move on to some other work).
by Dylan Davis
(via netlemur)
