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October 26, 2016
Marian (Churchland) just finished all the pages for Arclight #4...
Marian (Churchland) just finished all the pages for Arclight #4 (the end issue) I’m headed off to the Lucca con in Italy and then to a talk in Sydney Australia. but as soon as I’m back I’m gonna work with Marian to get the text on this set and sent off.
October 25, 2016
What’s out this Wednesday? 10/26/16
Spooky scary, it’s an all-star Wednesday of indie sci-fi graphic novels this weeeeek
Prince of Cats by Ron Wimberly
After being brushed under the rug, long forgotten, and let out of print by Vertigo, this 2012 cult classic is being republished in a deluxe hardcover format by Image! Ron Wimberly’s “cyberpunk 1980s Brooklyn Romeo and Juliet but Tybalt is the main character” is one of the most important graphic novels of the last decade, so we’re ecstatic everyone can get a chance to read it now. Fingers crossed, we’ll be doing a signing with Washington, D.C. prodigal son Wimberly sometime in late November, so keep your eyes open.
The World of Edena by Mœbius
Dark Horse finally wrangled the rights to the Mœbius library after decades out of print, and we’re getting our first hardcover collection of largely previously-unreleased work! Arguably the most important European sci-fi artist of all time.
Habitat by Simon Roy
Simon Roy’s surprisingly heartwarming space cannibal story from Island magazine is collected in paperback form, just in time for us to do a Habitat book club in a couple weeks where we Skype in with him! If you liked Prophet, Habitat would be right up your alley.
THAT IS A GREAT COMIC HAUL!
October 24, 2016
I wish I enjoyed drawing in the way that you seem to. I like drawing, but I also find it physically and mentally draining, so it's not something i do casually. (During movies, waiting for food, etc.) Do you draw in your sketchbook a lot?
I try to do whatever I can to take the pressure off of drawing. I often feel like sending emails is my job (I am bad at that job) AND then I can escape to the fun of drawing things. but that doesn’t mean that even though drawing is my all time favorite thing to do that it isn’t difficult some days.
I feel like drawing can be super hard or it can just be you dragging a mark making tool across paper. I often try to compartmentalise it as just –wow how cool is it that this pen/cil I have can make lines on paper!
Sometimes what helps me is to start out a day by redrawing a couple images from photos or other people’s work. And once I’m just making lines and not thinking about it, it becomes easier to draw my own stuff
October 22, 2016
animarchive:
Animage (06/1981) - Shin Taketori Monogatari:...
Animage (06/1981) - Shin Taketori Monogatari: 1000-nen Joou (Queen Millennia) - illustration by Yoshinori Kanemori.
October 21, 2016
fantomcomics:
We’re doing a Skype book club with @simon-roy for...
We’re doing a Skype book club with @simon-roy for his comic Habitat on November 13!The world’s most SURPRISINGLY HEARTWARMING SPACE CANNIBAL STORY, originally serialized in Island magazine, is coming out in a collected paperback volume this month so we’re gonna do a book club where we Skype in with Simon to talk about it.
And if you missed the memo on our OTHER Island magazine Skype book club, we’re talking to @malachiward about his recently-collected comic Ancestor on October 30.
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comicsworkbook:
connorwillumsen:
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Amazing stuff!
October 20, 2016
October 19, 2016
misterchat:
secretlesbians:
Depictions of Lesbianism by Henri...
Depictions of Lesbianism by Henri Toulouse Lautrec
During his life, Lautrec spent a lot of time in Montmarte, the bohemian centre of 19th century Paris and home to artists, philosophers, writers, performers, and prostitutes. He spent a lot of time with the sex workers there, and discovered that many of them had intimate relationships with one another.
Lautrec’s depiction of lesbianism is particularly notable because it doesn’t fetishise sexual intimacy between women or present it as spectacle for the male gaze. Lautrec was trying to capture small, tender moments in the lives of the women he met, and he did so with humanity and sensitivity. In a world of constructed sexuality and fantasy, he finds the real relationships, and reveals to us the hidden lives of queer women in the 19th century.
Fin-de-siècle Paris was the capital of lesbianism. However, until the mid century, and despite the acknowledgment of male homosexuality, female homosexuality had been considered absurd. This scepticism was grounded in the fact that many nineteenth-century psychologists and medical professionals did not believe in female sexual impulse. Thus, when instances of lesbianism were reported in Alexandre Parent-Duchâtelet’s 1836 study of prostitution in Paris, lesbianism came to be understood as an activity associated with the Montmartre counterculture and, in particular, with prostitution. Indeed, deluxe houses of tolerance often functioned as specialty brothels that catered for a clientele with particular fetishes, such as tableaux vivants where ‘inmates, entirely naked, abandon themselves to homosexual practices on a large black velvet carpet or in rooms hung with black satin to bring out the whiteness of their bodies’. This was lesbianism as commercial spectacle, performed within a closed environment for male consumption.
Lesbianism in the public realm was a sexual preference that, while common, was negatively judged by French conservative society and for this reason was conducted with subtlety and partially obscured. In fact, many of the biggest stars of the Parisian circuses, dance halls and café-concerts were lesbian or bisexual, including Jane Avril and May Milton (whom, it is generally agreed, had a short-lived love affair), Sarah Bernhardt, Cha-u-ka-o and La Goulue. Whilst these Montmartre celebrities were depicted on multiple occasions by Lautrec, the artist chose to represent them as skilled professionals, never exploiting their sexual preference as the main focus of his compositions. So subtle was Lautrec in his treatment of these themes that art historians such as David Sweetman have gone so far as to argue that ‘It comes as something of a shock to realise that most of the women … were in fact lesbians and that quite a few were lovers. So many, in fact, that it is possible to argue that lesbianism is the hidden subtext of much of the art of Henri’s mature years.’
- from nga.gov.au
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1. At the Moulin Rouge: The Women Dancing
2. In Bed
3. The Kiss
4. Two Friends
5. Les Deux Amies
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