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December 2, 2020
Description: A two panel comic. Both panels are identical and...
Description: A two panel comic. Both panels are identical and feature me drawing on my Cintiq. In the first panel there is a loud crash. In the second panel, without looking up, I am stating that ‘That better not be your waterbowl for the third time today.’
December 1, 2020
Description: A caption reads: ‘It’s December.’ I am facing...
Description: A caption reads: ‘It’s December.’ I am facing away from the camera, hands in my messy hair, shrieking.
November 30, 2020
Hi! So I just found the Kickstarter for the Christmas candy cookbook, and I was wondering, are you going to do another Kickstarter for a copy next year? The book looks so cute and the recipes look really fun.
I’ve thrown a few extra copies up on my storenvy! I hadn’t thought about doing another print run next year, but that’s not a bad idea.
A Christmas Witch's Candy Cookbook from The Storefront
Got a few extra copies up on Storenvy!
November 28, 2020
November 26, 2020
Description: A two panel comic. In the first panel we have...
Description: A two panel comic. In the first panel we have illustrations of my family and the text ‘Let’s pare down for Thanksgiving this year.’ Above each family member is the ONE (1) dish they were responsible for. The second panel is almost identical except a SECOND dish has been added to each family member’s roster but mine. I have turned to look at them to say ‘Y’all are liars.’
Hello! I just wanted to tell you that I love you very much and thank you for putting image descriptions on your wonderful artworks. I would kill for you
I will use your loyalty wisely. Many thanks.
November 23, 2020
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This is worse. Looking at these you...
This is worse. Looking at these you can tell they have no significant monetary value. They were confiscated as a fear tactic. Nothing more.
This picture breaks my heart everytime it appears in my dash. It’s a fear tactic, alright but—
The first one in the left corner: It’s a first communion rosary, and it’s not cheap.
The black one in the first line: That’s a widow rosary and it’s old.
The white one in the second line: is a commemoration rosary. It has a miniature picture in the round part. I haven’t seen that since the 70′s.
In the third line, multicolor one: It’s an Anima mundi, I have only seen those in the hands of Rosary ministery’s old ladies. The oldest ones are from the 80′s after Juan Pablo II came to Mexico for the first time. It’s one of the old ones, I know because the crucifixes are different.
The third one on the fourth line: Red and gold. The style is old, the metal is dark, that’s a 50′s rosary, probably a quinceañera one (or it’s maybe older, from the 40′s when the brides carried red roses with their offerings).
The fifth one on the fourth line: It’s a quinceañera rosary with Ignatius’s tear. The style is old and in my part of Mexico is orphan girls who used it. At least it was when I was young.
The third one of the fifth line: the blue one with the anchor. That one I have only seen in Veracruz and it doesn’t look new.
The fifth one on the fifth line: That’s a 90′s wedding rosary. Black and white patterns were popular on that date.
The fourth one on the last line: That’s a first communion rosary from the 30′s. It’s delicate and most probably silver.
The rest wrench my heart too, the humble everyday rosaries with wooden beads and knots. Those are cheap and bear the wear and tear of their user handling. But those I described are much more.
Those are mother’s rosaries.
Those are not just rosaries. Those are mementos, that’s the proof of their families stories. They are taking from them the only portable things they can carry to feel the connection to their families.
It’s not a fear tactic. Call it like by its name.
It’s dehumanization.
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