This Is The First Comic I’ve Finished In About Two Years. I Did The Inks Around July 2020 And Finished

“original illustration - a kiss 2″

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The first page of my Naruto fancomic. From here, I'll post the comic in two-page batches as I complete them.

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I may or may not be working on a Naruto comic.

Some sketches of Boruto-era Sasuke, including my reasoning for the change in hairstyle.

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Reaching that point in working on a piece where I lose any sense of reality and my brain just chants "I AM A GENIUS I AM A GOD" over and over. Well, working in customer service until 11:30 pm will certainly beat down that overblown sense of confidence. Off to work!

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Figure Study 2023

Work in progress pictures can be seen here

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I was super inspired by @g-e-gogarty ‘s drawings about the personalities of dog breeds, so I thought I’d do drawings of cat breeds but then I realized I’ve never encountered a cat that is actually a specific “breed.” I’ve just had cats that were “it showed up on our porch” breed.

So here is a guide to the many cats that raised me.

(Please view on my tumblr page since it got butchered on the dash...)

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*crawls out from under a pile of thesis research*

a continuation of my comix master studies, this time with pages from “Black Hole” by Charles Burns, “I Am a Hero” by Kengo Hanazawa, and “Shadow Star” by Mohiro Kitoh.

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My posting speed on these is about to slow down DRAMATICALLY because I’ll be studying for my licensure exam next month. So, read, re-read and leave comments.

The first page of my Naruto fancomic. From here, I’ll post the comic in two-page batches as I complete them.

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First page here

I was waiting to post these final pages until I'd completed the cover and done a couple other things to go along with this project, but I decided to quit being precious about it and just post the dang things.

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how do you feel about your bart/chris/bobby comic being low-key iconic in some circles? I just read it again and it really brings me totears

I'm glad you find the comic so meaningful.

On one hand, it's gratifying as an artist, to know that my work has resonated with so many people. Based on some of the messages I've gotten from people, the comic has been part of how they processed their own childhood experiences or part of what inspires them to start their own therapy. That's amazing! It's not like I set out with that being the goal of the comic or anything!

On the other hand, it's given me a small experience of "death of the author." I didn't conceive of the comic as a sweeping critique of the "nuclear family animated comedy" or depictions of violence, trauma, or abusive relationships in media. I have LOTS of complex and contradictory opinions on "difficult" subjects in art. I created the comic while taking a class on family and couples therapy, and was inspired by the class to explore how real family/relationship dynamics might occur if I approached these cartoons as real families. I think a lot of people get this backwards -- they see the comic as using a lens of psychology/counseling to critique popular media. My actual experience of thinking up the comic was using popular media to explore what I was learning about psychology/counseling.

That said, I recognize that once something is out in the world, I can't completely control how it's interpreted or used. The positive messages I've received greatly outweigh my ambivalence about how some people view/interpret the comic.