Building a practice, like compost. Time, patience, and layers.
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๐ฑ zines ๐ฑ comics ๐ฑ illustration Chicago, IL
Building a practice, like compost. Time, patience, and layers.
#art #zines #selfpublishing #comics #substack #chicago #michigan
First post of my free substack. Hopefully after this one it will be easier for me and this more frequent! Itโs free if you want to stay in the loop!
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Tomorrow, April 19th! Milwaukee Zine Fest and itโs my birthday, so be nice to this zine grandma! ๐ต๐ป
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I think they must be because in the last few years they did a project with British folk weirdo Richard Dawson.
11.04.2025 15:13 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Detroit Zine Fest is this Saturday and Iโll be bringing zine joy to the Motor City! Youโll get me โfreshโ at the start of a chaotic month of Midwest zine fest travel, a birthday, seeing Mount Eerie, and Easter (I guess?)
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#detroitzinefest25 #detroit #zines #comics
Itโs Aries season! Spring is coming! Independent publishing thankfully still exists!
Come see me across the greater Great Lakes area throughout April.
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That frog book is stealing my heart ๐ธ๐
27.02.2025 21:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Iโm starting a free Substack newsletter like everybody now. Itโs 100% free so feel free to subscribe and see what happens and keep up with my art and thought stuff in a more intentional way.
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Artificial Prehistory.
#sketchbook #drawing #comics #illustration
Itโs so funny when cats decide to do something new.
What prompted the change in the walnut brain? Or was this the warmest, sunniest spot in that moment?
I still have a lot of binding thread to get through, so maybe not yet. I struggle because people love that detail but it is truly a pain in the ass.
You could become a granting body if you have that many extras! โThe Marc Fischer Long Arm Stapler Grantโโaka make and staple tons of booklets!
Iโve never had one which is why I bind my booklets by hand with thread but the arthritis is arthritising so I may need to consider other options.
04.02.2025 05:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Remember summer, full of flowers, sunlight, and fleeting dreams?
โConcrete Texturesโ from the Summer 2024 issue of Floral Observer by Taxonomy Press.
#comics #riso #summer
Soooo good!
#comics #olivierschrauwen
That painter really went for it.
25.01.2025 22:02 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0It also makes me think of โBig Skyโ by Kate Bush as well.
25.01.2025 18:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0YES.
25.01.2025 18:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0In a line drawing with warm earth tones, a short haired woman kneels to pick a mushroom in a forest. The text reads, โI COME ALIVE IN THE DECAY, CHEEKS WHIPPED BY MIST. THE EARTH GOES DAMP AND FOUL, ACTIVE WITH INVISIBLE ORGANISMS.โ
Observing and classifying.
#drawing #illustration #mushrooms
A DARKENING DESPENING SOMATOSENSORY DESIRE CREEPING COLD AIR CRISP, LUNGS PIERCING GASPING BLOODIED MUCUS - BLACK RELEASING. BONES STIFFENING, SNAP! CRACKING, NO HEALING FATIGUED, BOREAL, DRY KINDLING A FIERY MIND UNCEASING PAIN HOLLOW, DEFEATED, RETREATING THE BODY COPES WITH WINTER'S STRIFE, AND WINTER LAUGHS BACK, SCREAMING.
Itโs subzero in Chicago today, perfect for my comic from the Cellar Door comics compilation by Taxonomy Press.
#art #comics #illustration #winter
A focused moment like raindrops on iris petals.
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