Claire Mead

1: Star dappled centaur
#monstermarch

Jonah's art is gorgeous!!

The cover of the graphic novel, a colored illustration by Daun Han depicting King in the foreground, Luz and Harpy Eda behind him, and the other cast of characters framing them including Willow, Hunter, Gus, Papa Titan, the Collector, and Amity.

We've been looking forward to sharing this news for a long time. We're making a graphic novel!

The Owl House: The Long-Lived King
Written by me and the amazing @mikkicrisostomo.bsky.social

Illustrated by the incomparable @dindu99.bsky.social

We're so excited to tell a brand new story.

A mustachioed trans flag toting drag king artfully photoshopped into Turner's The Wreck Buoy. Text reads in tasteful Comic Sans: "from eugène delacroissant to you...come hang out with me and the buoys"

THIS FRIDAY 6th! LIVERPOOL! Rejoice because Eugène Delacroissant, museum mansplainer, artist genius and director of all museums is taking over the Walker and telling what all the fuss is about Turner: Always Contemporary in a very special late event!
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/walk...

#artshare banner featuring two women, one in black and one in white, lying on their backs in opposite directions, their heads turned to face each other, fingers loosely playing with one another's hair, noses just barely not touching. They gaze at one another, infatuated. Text reads: "Sapphic Sunday Art Share" in white, and "Rules in comments" below in pink.

Happy February and welcome to the 2nd bi-monthly #SapphicSunday #artshare, a place to showcase sapphic creatives, sapphic creations, non-men characters, and non-men-centric creative works.
Bring that gay shit and female (or nonbinary) gaze!
✨️🩷🤍💜✨️

🌈All media welcome!
🌈Rules in comments!

Six squared mirror in two column are placed on a tiled lime green wall, surrounded by plants, a monstera on the right and a small agave inside a pink pot on the left. On top of the mirrors, a partial signs read "drinks" suggesting these mirrors are on the wall of a bar. Reflected on the mirrors are two girl taking a selfie. We cannot see their faces as the girl on the right is kissing the other girl on the cheek and both are partially covered by the girl on the left phone as she's taking a selfie. They are on the seaside, wearing beach costumes and there is a beach umbrella, the sand and the see reflected in the bottom mirror. The girl on the right has blond wavy short hair and an undercut. Many piercings on her ear and she's wearing a collar. The girl on the left has long straight blue hair and sunglasses on top of her head.

Two girls holding hands and looking into each other eyes while smiling and holding the other hand up high, grasping both ends of a progressive pride flag over their heads. The girl on the right has long wavy purple hair , a teal crop top and pink pants. She has a pink chocker with a metal heart and a star pendant. She has a bisexual flag painted on her cheek. The girl on the left has short light blue hair with an undercut. She's wearing a dark purple sleeveless top with a pink harness on top of it. She has a dark purple choker and light purple shorts, with fishnets hose that reach her pierced belly button. She has a lesbian flag painted on her cheek. She has a star pendant. They are Tessa and Drew, the protagonists of my sapphic comic Starlit Lovers.

Two female characters facing each other as their foil swords are touching. They are both dressed in the same Victorian fencing uniform: black skirt, white collared shirt with a red heart on the left breast, puffy black sleeves. The girl on the left has brown skin and black hair. She is Egyptian and her name is Hala. The girl on the right has blonde hair and freckles. She's British and her name is Sheila. They are the protagonist of my sapphic murder mystery Midnight Heart.

Sheila and Hala from my sapphic queer murder mystery comic Midnight Heart. They are inside a boath, kissing at dusk, surrounded by vegetation. This image was inspired by Second Movement (2016) by Ragnar Kjartansson (a four-hour-long kiss staged on the Barbican lake, in which two women in Edwardian dress are frozen in an elegant embrace. I was lucky to see this art performance live back in 2016 so I wanted to draw my own version of it with my OCs).

Happy #SapphicSunday #artshare ❣️ I'm Lucia, queer comic artist and illustrator, creating comics with sapphic love stories as their core, loving Victorian times, punk and murder mysteries! 💖

You can find more on my website: www.kitsuneart.net

a woman is holding a pair of glasses and says that 's all Alt: A woman (Miranda Priestly, in Devil Wears Prada) is holding a pair of glasses and says that 's all while swivelling in her chair.

So if you were looking for a sign, this is it.

GO MAKE THAT COMIC.

And anything you make, even if you start with a STICK FIGURE, will be so much more beautiful and interesting than anything that AI can ever spit out in seconds at the expense of our environment, integrity and critical thinking.

And I truly think that's important to say because I don't agree with the way the webtoon "official" industry treats its writers but especially illustrators. I don't need your story if you're churning it out at a dizzying speed at the expense of your health. I'll wait months for a new page. It's FINE

Live life because that's also how the comic has evolved - I evolved and lived with it and suffused my experiences into it, experiences that meant that yeaaahh sometimes the comic DID have a long hiatus but the story was richer for those times away from my desk.

Yeah MAYBE do if you want start with a SLIGHTLY smaller project than Your Grand Epic Story like I did but controversial opinion: if you're not super passionate about it then you will not keep doing it. But also - take breaks. Take care of your health. Eat well, sleep well, socialise, touch grass.

So really, I do want to say, even if it does sound like a bit of a webcomics cliché...

Just start. Oh my GOD just start doing it. Do as little as you can, ignore all the online advice about "number of panels on webtoon" and "upload schedule" literally just do what you can, when you can.

I was so proud of the first pages and still am even if they are not the most "polished", and I'll be proud of the current pages in the future as I continue to improve. But that would have been basically impossible without that first leap.

Yes some people could say that you know, I could have started way earlier. But ADHD and living my life also got in the way as did my lack of self-confidence (oh hey, also a trait that Cassidy has!). But it's only by starting and challenging yourself that you improve.

2016-2019, intensely get back into fencing and obviously get even more inspired, properly start writing the script and decide to clumsily draw my first pages again and again.

And 2020 I FINALLY started drawing it all. AND posting it.

There's a lot to say about reaching 100 episodes and SIX! YEARS! of doing Girls' School of Knighthood but the main thing I want to say right now is...

I came up with Cassidy in 2013.

Fleshed out GSoK 2014-2016. Tinkered with it for YEARS waiting to be "good enough" at comics to start.

Girls' School of Knighthood (GL) - Episode 100 - Nothing. Cassidy is a bard telling tales about knights and those they protect...but defending a mysterious masked girl sets her on a path to become the hero of her stories. Will she find her lady - and become ...

Girls' School of Knighthood has not only UPDATED...but we've reached EPISODE 100!
www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/gi...

A marketing graphic with a soft pink background and faded foliage. The main text reads: You have called us and we wish to respond, but you are tainted. We can give you what you desire. Do you accept? Followed by a broken heart gem. The bottom text reads: Available in paperback and ebook. Free preview available at sarahclowder.com The cover, at the center and to the left, is for Fools Rush In by Sarah Clowder (art by Amanda Robin @robinade ). It features an older elf woman sitting slouched in a red chair with a ruby necklace. In one hand, a goblet of wine is spilling into a grinning puddle, the other holds a sword with the same broken hearted gem as the graphic.

Fools Rush In is available on my shop!

💖 Bisexual lead
🎉 Polyamory end game
🔮 Cool sword
♥️ Processing trauma
🪆 Found family
🎭 Enemies to lovers

A free preview (70+ pages) is also available.

📚 sarahclowder.com
🏷 payhip.com/SillyGooseInk

Omg yes hello what is happening I am here for this!!

Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..." There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel Duane Puryear died in 1991.

It's your birthday, Duane.

@carmineclaire.bsky.social have you seen this?

Whaaat no way!!

I know this is tied up with the deal with Dreamworks expiring but I don't care. Ultimately Netflix is starting to just represent everything I hate about current media and brainless streaming of content without ownership of it

A screenshot providing Netflix with my reason for cancelling.

I'm cancelling Netflix over their absurd decision to remove She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (and others like Kipo) from the platform, which is an affront to both original animation that can not be accessed elsewhere and LGBTQ+ content.

They endured more than most parents sign up for, they loved, their tried, they never gave up. Unbelievably tragic, so sad and such a waste of two incredibly talented, kind, loving and successful humans. In a World of hate and evil, Love is all that matters. 💔😭🕯️🕎💞🙏
RIP Rob & Michele Reiner.

GRINDING vs HONING YOUR EDGE

or

how to improve w/o burning out! (1/17)🧵📚

I've spent a lot of time grinding, and subsequently a lot of time recovering, and then a lot of time just having fun, and I've got some thoughts I'd like to share re; energy!

(skip to post #7 for the tips)

I also had a lot of fun challenging myself because I am a little ADHD freak

Do I recommend doing this? Well no not every Sunday but when you work full-time and have a busy life sometimes the buffer runs out and you gotta do what you gotta do

I just crunched the last update between 9am and 6pm with breaks (including a one hour lunch break and move around breaks and a phone call and STRETCHES) and honestly if I wasn't documenting it for a chaotic vlog I would imagine it's some kind of fever dream

Girls' School of Knighthood (GL) - Episode 97 - Sorry to interrupt Cassidy is a bard telling tales about knights and those they protect...but defending a mysterious masked girl sets her on a path to become the hero of her stories. Will she find her lady - and become ...

Girls' School of Knighthood has UPDATED please go read my lil sword lesbian GL comic
www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/gi...