This can be taken in so many different ways…

Omg I hope you have a good time with it! I was just doodling on my nomad yesterday ✨

I’m at BICS Brooklyn, come say hi! ✨

My parents and I were trying to figure that out,, it’s been 20 whole years since I wrote it though so I can’t be sure. The fact that it’s printed makes me hopeful it was sent as another copy😭

They had Bumi and multiples of all of the male characters but no Katara… I’m still mad about this 💀

It’s just a bunch of scribbles on two tiny fake pages since they were too small, but it was meant to emulate the real letter dgdkdgjd

The tiny functional envelope with a tiny version of the letter inside is inspired

I MEANT BUSINESS

This letter I wrote to the ATLA team as a kid has me on the floor 😭

I’ll be at BICs next week, would love to see you there!! Table 162 in the red room.

Would having sprinkled illustrations throughout not be an option? A best of both worlds, like Brom’s Slewfoot or the spiderwick chronicles! I’ve always loved the look of books like that

Hmmmm I love the James Gurney book on color and light, but I also love to just study cinematography and paintings!

Aaaa thank you!! It’s harder to find a good flat palette than to paint for me bc it requires way more precision and nuance. It’s been a nice challenge to lean into them lately 💚

Aaaa that’s so nice to hear!! I personally like to start with neutral/base colors, and then do a lot of adjustments to make the backgrounds Almost monochrome and tonally low-contrast, which I personally like to create an atmosphere, add depth, and help the characters come forward in the scene~

Coloring the first book in my new series, love finding the palettes for each scene ✨

I’m talking about it!!!

#graphicnovel #comics

Reposting this for obvious reasons. I have much more in common with any Iranian than I do with the American and Israeli pieces of shit trying to annihilate them. Any single Iranian life lost is an entire universe gone; more, a tragedy at a level I cannot personally fathom. This is all I can do.

How long to anticipate feedback taking between stages. Every editor/IP holder I’ve worked with has been so different with this.

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

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RIGHT UNDER THE WIRE — hello #transdayofvisibility !! I’m knack, I make comics, I love vampires, many of you know the drill~ I’m ALSO getting top surgery next week!! (AAAA)

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A figure in shadow holds a bloody heart, and stands in front of fire and smoke and a waving transgender pride flag. The caption reads "Fix your heart or die."

I believe there’s absolutely no dialogue at all in the red turtle, which is definitely environmentally focused. The Wallace and Gromit shorts are also very lovely and have minimal dialogue.

Advocate: J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization.

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.

TLDR; my happy balance of work to have at a time is one big graphic novel project that takes up most of my attention, one mini comic a year (either self published or commercial), and a weekly maintained online shop for a regular trickle of additional income. An occasional con is the cherry on top!

The only time I’ve felt financially stable in this industry is when I signed a deal for a series, and when all was said and done, I was making around minimum wage. It was entirely necessary to have other streams of income, via my own self published work and my freelance.

I’m lucky that I can draw quickly and have good stamina (for now) for comics/illustration; it allows me to juggle multiple jobs at once. I take plenty of breaks though, and have a good amount of days off! I like having multiple projects that I can rotate depending on how I’m feeling that day.

Shops are even more unpredictable than publishing though as the trends are more short term. So I also take on cover artwork and commercial/ issue comic illustration when I can fit them in. These are nice since the timeline for them are pretty quick and I can rely on the payment turnaround.

One thing that really saved me from needing to move back in with my parents (to their tiny studio apartment) was my online shop where I sell my stickers, comics, and prints. When things were slow, I built my store and managed to pay most of my rent for that dire year because of it.

During the gaps between publishing delays and downtime, I’d work on my self published comics, which I also used as opportunities to try out new techniques/tools. These were great long term investments of my time, but in the short term don’t always pay off immediately, so I do them mostly for fun.