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June 14, 2020
Description: A comic in black and white and soft pink. The...
Description: A comic in black and white and soft pink. The first three panels show me lying in bed, looking at my phone. I put my phone down, then leave the bed and abandon it. The next panel shows my makeup box. I sit in front of my bedroom mirror. Text reads: ‘Even before quarantine, my social circle was pretty much just my parents and my gym.’ In the next three panels I am doing my makeup. Text reads: ‘So when I do my makeup, It’s usually just for me. I like to remember that this face can be gorgeous. It’s funny though-’ In the last panel I am making an exaggerated happy face. Text finishes: ‘-when I make this face goofy.’
June 13, 2020
Description: An illustration of pink, blue, and white hydrangeas...
Description: An illustration of pink, blue, and white hydrangeas with black leaves.
June 12, 2020
Everything is rage.Description: A figure walking calmly while...
Everything is rage.
Description: A figure walking calmly while completely on fire, set against a black background.
June 11, 2020
‘I am the most dangerous god, I promise you’Description: A...
‘I am the most dangerous god, I promise you’
Description: A slight figure in leggings and an oversized sweater, holding up a hyena mask over their face.
June 7, 2020
'Cry More, Turtle Man' Patch [PRE ORDER] from The Storefront
I made a patch.
Profits will go to Booker for Kentucky and the attempt to unseat McConnell.
June 4, 2020
alexdecampi:
alexdecampi:
Hell’s Kitchen Movie Club #2: Silent...
Hell’s Kitchen Movie Club #2: Silent Running
This was just supposed to be a dumb
strip about bad action movies, obscure band t-shirts, and the
peculiar rhythms of male friendship. Then as I wrote it, these two
assholes starting having emotional arcs and longer, interconnected
storylines about loss and PTSD, and *throws up hands* why can’t I
just make stupid things?
Then the Last Vegas shootings happened.
Dave and his wife did a lot of the graphic design for that concert;
they had many friends in the audience. And suddenly a lot of the
casual conversations in bars we’d been having about these
characters and their larger presence in the American cultural
landscape got very real.
Look, I’ll go to my grave swearing
that artists have a duty to be irresponsible. You try for
responsibility in art – giving the audience what they expect –
and you end up with Soviet Realism, or WPA murals. They’re pleasant
enough in their way, but they don’t really make you feel
anything, do they?
The act of
creation is, at heart, wildly irresponsible. So, sure. Be daring.
Tweak noses. Astonish and anger your audience. But remember there is
first a far more fundamental rule, the numero uno, the bedrock
law of existence in civilised society:
Don’t be evil.
And don’t enable the use of your
creations for evil by others.
This is true from your very first
story. It’s even more true when you are the brief caretaker of a
multi-million-dollar corporate character, especially one that
represents disenfranchised white male working-class rage, or a
yellow-haired man wrapped up in red, white and blue who represents
“America”, whatever that is.
Because make no mistake: evil is abroad
in this land. It visits itself daily in violence on innocent bodies
based on the color of their skin or the name they call God. And
nobody does anything. It visited itself on hundreds of innocent music
fans in Las Vegas. And nobody’s doing much of anything to stop it
happening again.
I’m not saying you have to do
anything. You don’t have to be a hero.
Just don’t be evil.
And if you’re lucky enough to write
heroes, don’t do it in a way which allows the hateful to use them
as symbols for evil.
If you want to do something, consider
giving a little money to the Las Vegas victims’ fund (Team Frank)
or Stop Soldier Suicide (Team Bucky). Or, y’know, maybe both.
Yours always (or at least until the
inevitable Cease & Desist),
Alex
PS love to my volunteer co-creators, @dave-acosta (line art) and @deecunniffe (colour art), please follow them.
Previously in Hell: cover image // 01 // 02 // 03 // Xmas // 04 // 05 // 06 // That time the Punisher’s creator gave us a thumbs-up // twitter // insta
I wish this strip would stop being relevant.
June 3, 2020
heyrosiebee:
FILIPINOS URGENTLY NEED YOUR HELP: A CALL TO ACTION
art by the wonderful...
FILIPINOS URGENTLY NEED YOUR HELP: A CALL TO ACTIONart by the wonderful @franshookie-art (DO NOT REPOST this image without their specific permission. check out more of their art on twitter.)hi, all.. i know that a lot of our focus is on the BlackLivesMatter movement atm (which is wonderful and should’ve happened a long time ago), and i hate to distract you from that, but there’s something horrible happening in my country, the Philippines (yes, the one being lead by the so-called Filipino version of Donald Trump), right now.
our national government has passed a bill that’ll essentially take away our constitutional rights to freedom of speech and fair trial. it’s called the Anti-Terrorism Bill, but we’ve dubbed it Terror Bill. here’s a summary of what it entails:
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if you want to read the actual bill in its entirety, here’s a link to the official Senate of the Philippines website, where you can download a pdf copy. i’d like you to keep in mind the political climate in our country, though, and just how rampant corruption and police brutality are here.
it has already been passed by the Senate; all it needs is the House of Representatives’ approval, and it will be enforced. if you want to help stop this from happening, here are a few ways:
sign and share this petition. we’re so close to 300,000 signatures!!!
send e-mails to the Office of the President and the Senate. there’s an e-mail protest currently going on. i have qualms about copy-pasting the message, but ultimately, this method is a lot more effective than petitions:these posters were made and posted by @tentenyukki on twitter.
educate yourself about the bill and how it will affect us when it’s approved. here are some news articles, editorials, and thought pieces to get you started:
writeswrongs:If you’re not following the Swann Street siege story this morning, it’s...
If you’re not following the Swann Street siege story this morning, it’s incredible.
Yesterday evening, D.C. police forced a large group of peaceful protesters and demonstrators into a residential neighborhood in a tactic known as “kettling.”
Kettling is a military technique to encircle people, to box them in on all sides, into a smaller and smaller and smaller space where they can’t retreat or escape from. In American protests, it’s often accompanied by police forces taking advantage of the fact that protesters can’t retreat to inflict maximum harm with teargas, batons, and other weapons for an extended period before doing mass arrests.
It’s not a dispersement technique, it’s the complete opposite – it’s a technique of intense aggression, and it’s controversial because it’s seldom used in good faith and often results in intense prolonged violence, with the intention of also cutting everyone caught in the kettle off from medics, aid, food, water, the ability to leave, etc.
Last night, D.C. police pushed demonstrators into a residential neighborhood in an attempt to kettle them. But residents of the neighborhood had been watching, and threw open their front doors to protesters, including a first-generation Indian-American man named Rahul Dubey.
Rahul and his neighbors sheltered a hundred people or more, between them, for eight hours last night, including having teargas fired at their homes and having the police try to enter their private property several times through various methods. They were rebuked and dispelled every time.
Rahul and his neighbors orchestrated food, medical aid, and lawyers during the siege, including ensuring protesters had safe escorts this morning.
You can read the first-person accounts from the people who were trapped there:
Allison Lane: https://twitter.com/allieblablah
Meka from the 307: https://twitter.com/MekaFromThe703
And you can read Marcella Robertson’s coverage on her timeline here, including Rahul’s speech to media this morning: https://twitter.com/Marcella_Rob
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