#2: Building Digital Safety Skills (in collaboration with nonprofit AGE+). This comic is geared toward older adults; digital safety is awesome and achievable. Read/get free copies on OCJ's site: ocj.org/digital-secu...
New comics illustrated! For nonprofit Oregon Consumer Justice, two additions to the Consumer Confidence Comics series. #1: Dealing with debt collection, available in full on OCJ's website in English and Spanish, where you can order free copies to distribute in your community: ocj.org/news/navigat...
I'm on a stream doing drawing games 3pm-5pm PST! I'm slightly deliriously recovering from a fever, so it should be an excellent time. Here to get Lola and Tali to Canada!!
Since we launched a year ago, we've run 33 workshops and classes, published 64 comics, paid cartoonists $6473, and paid artists $18000 to teach comics classes. Nice work!
What's next? We're starting a Patreon to cover the cost of running the site, to pay our editors, and to have a larger budget for publishing more nonfiction comics. We're in this for the long haul!
In prioritizing payments to artists, we haven't been paying our editors (Audra and Shay) for running the publication. We want Crucial to be sustainable and not flame out like so many independent media outlets.
Comics are rooted in collaboration, in sharing your weird, wild voice without censorship or control. The funding comes from our community—that's you.
Crucial Comix is one year old today! We're celebrating our birthday by starting a Patreon, so we can be financially sustainable for the long haul. ✊ Check it out and thanks for supporting independent artists: www.patreon.com/c/CrucialComix
✨ New comic: Artist Lindsey Danae Perez tells a powerful historical story of indigenous resistance against Spanish colonizers. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/toypur...
Page 1 of a 10 page history comic called Operation Ulusy. The colour scheme and style of the illustrations take inspiration from Central Asian textile art, particularly Kalmyk embroidery. Panel 1 shows a Kalmyk mother and two children looking worried at two partially seen people in military uniform. It is snowing and the family is bundled up and carrying their belongings. Around them, and throughout the comic, embroidery motifs from Central Asia convey their rallying spirit in this trying time. The caption reads: “On the 28th of December 1943, the deportation of the Kalmyks began.”
Panel 2 reads “Driven into cattle cars, 93,000 people (virtually the whole ethnic Kalmyk population) were exiled.” The mother watches as uniformed men point the way to cattle cars in the snow.
My comic about the deportation of the Kalmyks 81 years ago today is up on Crucial Comix! Please have a read and learn about the ethnic purges that Russia is happy to sweep under the rug. Read it in full here:
www.crucialcomix.com/comic/operat...
Page 1 of 4. A package is delivered to a house. It has the logo "CR" on it, and is opened by disembodied hands to reveal a VR headset and a flyer reading "consensus reality"
Page 2. A person puts on the headset in their cozy living room. A panel from their perspective: they see a popup reading "Welcome to consensus. Do you accept the terms and services and sign away your likeness rights." They select the word "Absolutely." Their hand flips through realities, selecting "consensus." The world around them becomes simplified, rudimentary lamp and chair and table replace their specific furniture. Attempting to lean on the table, they fall over as the VR representation of the table doesn't correspond with its actual shape and size.
Page 3. The person, fallen on the floor, swipes back up the realities menu. They select total ad block. Now they're surrounded by a pure black void. They yawn.
Page 4. The person rises to their feet in the empty void. They turn off "total ad block" and select a new reality: "100% natural." Looking out window blinds that are now alarmingly lumpy and organic looking, their headset reflects a world made of gooey, formless meat. They grin.
A comic about finding happiness.
Writing a quality cold email: Explain why you want to talk to them and not another person with the same job. And express excitement about something they care about. Have a specific ask: are you free for a 30 minute call sometime in the next two weeks? And finally, keep it short.
Zine side effects may include receiving more emails. Date: May 2024. @allia_makes and @audmcname
Several multicolored copies of mini zine SEND IT sitting on clover.
Send it. Or: how we learned to stop worrying and love the cold email
You should email cool people! People we've emailed: Ursula K. Le Guin's official biographer So! Many! Librarians! Preeminent psychedelic researcher A successful YouTuber (I would draw pictures for you) Your parent's friend's uncle who owns a bakery (is this nepotism) People who have emailed us: So many librarians. Zine makers!
How to send an email 0. Use the Wayback Machine to find an email address on a 10 year old website (not at all like a creep) 1. Write your email (more on this later) 2. Force roommate/coworker/mom to edit your email. (You're at dinner? That's nice. I have an email to read you.) 3. Reread email 3-23x. 4. Send. 5. Dread. 6. Receive reply 10x more delightful than expected. 7. Dread. 8. Respond Reach out if you know a better process!
zine about emails with @aservice.bsky.social.
6 panel comic titled “engagement mode.” Panel 1: guy wearing a VR headset scrolls a phone, while eyes headset’s external screen look at reader. Panel 2: still in headset, guy sleeps in chair. Eyes on headset still look at reader. Panel 3: in headset, guy types on computer while eyes look at reader. Panel 4: Silhouetted profile of guy, headset eyes looking at reader. GUY: “The eyes are glitching again?” Panel 5: Guy hits side of headset, eyes elongating into weird blobs. SFX: KNOCK Panel 6: Guy smiles, headset eyes broken up into strange blobs. GUY: “Thanks for letting me know!”
With sincere apologies I made this last fall bc I thought it was funny and I still think it’s funny
Drawing of assorted mushrooms in a basket.
fungi ii
Bright orange doodles of characters from the film Confess Fletch
Confess, Fletch (2022)
Orange & blue risograph prints of people on bikes
First risograph prints from workshop at The Outlet. Only disappointment is that I didn’t make more of that excellent green
simple line-drawings of mushrooms including the woolly tooth, the rufous milkcap, the pinkedge bonnet, the king bolete, the sulphur tuft, and the conifer chicken of the woods
pnw funguy/funghee/funjeye