Buy me a ko-fi… or maybe some tea.
PRE-ORDER MY BOOK. It is very good and it’s like 100 pages of short comics/poems. http://retrofit.storenvy.com/collections/29642-all-products/products/16195341-late-bloomer-by-mare-odomo
Printed out some weird stuff for Short Run. 32pgs of rejected pages from my upcoming book. Each copy has a different cover, all contents are the same but in different order.
New in the Birdcage Bottom Books shop:
Laura Knetzger’s “Sea Urchin”
“I used to smile…
…when I thought about good things happening to other people.”
When a sea urchin lurks within your brain, how can you overcome its spiky poison to live your life? Laura Knetzger takes a powerful look at creativity and depression, reflection and burdens, transmitted through her art that ranges from the mundane to the fantastical.
Published by Retrofit Comics / Big Planet Comics
7″ x 10″, 60 pages. $8
Full-color cover with b+w interior. Perfect-bound.
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A comic made last fall about binge watching tv when you’re sad.
Psyduck is eternal.
A comiXologist recommends:
Sea Urchinby: Eric Arroyo
Knetzger has honed her ability to express feelings and ideas beneath the skin. Her cartooning communicates depression and internal challenges in ways that highlight the empathic power of comics. While the earnest and pained laughs throughout the book gently guide the reader into sympathy, the work doesn’t act like a private diary to list one’s problems in. It pulls you into another person’s fears and insecurities, making them tangible. Knetzger’s abstract imagery is not used as a disruptive veil between author and reader; instead, it carries a specificity and intention that captures the immaterial sensations that a camera could never show you.
Laura’s drawings carry a raw honesty, with each line appearing precise and full of intention. I’m taken aback by how expressive and unpredictable her drawings are, iterating upon and transforming the iconic imagery that forms her style, while still being focused and clear above all else. From above, Knetzger’s pages can look loose and improvised, but her strength in communicating emotion comes from a marriage of directed, formal expertise with honest drawing.
Sea Urchin is a portal into another person’s pain, shared with a passionate sense of whimsy and a reminder that even if we never recover, we can still keep growing. Knetzger’s cartooning can help you understand and feel the burdens that other people carry into their everyday lives, and you may find some solace in seeing your own sea urchin reflected back at you.
Sea Urchin reminds me that I’m not alone, and I’d climb a mountain for that.
[Read Sea Urchin on comiXology]
Eric Alexander Arroyo is a Brooklyn-based cartoonist and a Digital Editor at comiXology. He’s probably drawing giant robots and listening to ABBA.
Florals
She surprised me when she said, “I like you.”
By Annie.
I made a new fictional comic for Rookie. This one’s v special to me, and I feel real blessed about all the warm feedback on, Twitter, Tumblr, and in the comments. Thanks to everyone sharing those words and sharing the story.
It was inspired in part from hearing Rookie’s Amy Rose say that she wanted to talk about sex as being ideally a lovely, fun thing, when we so often talk about sex as a bed of thorns. I need to discuss the rough stuff, the fraught moments surrounding sex because I feel them real hard, but sometimes I default to that when I make stories because it’s more “traditionally dramatic.” I wanted to rip a hole in that curtain and let a little light in.
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Young Talk episode 01
——-> Download episode 01 here <———
Young Talk with Kris Mukai and Laura Knetzger ✍
We read comics by:
Miranda Harmon (Website / The Freeze)
Krystal Difronzo (Website / New Leaf)
Elias Ericson (Website / BREAK)
♫ music by i-fls ♫
hi! I made a podcast and here it is, Young Talk! It’s about comics :—) hope ya don’t hate it.
Thanks so much to Laura and all the cartoonists who allowed us to read their work!!
I really like this
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