More news: I have two new zines for sale featuring the art, stories, and comics I’ve been doing between April 2015 and June 2016.
The first zine is called “Places, and the things that occupy them.” So named due to the fact that most of the work relies on the powers of observation, and the capacity to fulfill oneself with space. It’s about physical proximity vs. visual proximity. 18 pages, both color and b/w, 8x11 size, salmon pink cover. You can purchase this zine here.
The second zine is called “Chance and Form.” I chose this title because I felt the work represented what I feel is a chance to reform. To grab chance through creation and form. The comics within speak directly to feelings of chaos in form, truth in form, death and dream in form. 20 pages, both color and b/w, 8x11 size, blue cover. You can purchase this zine here.
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I also made these two as well! If you’re interested then buy one! Thanks!
FINALLY, SLUR issue 1 is here. It’s been a long time coming of anxiety, depression, and beating myself into submission so as to put something together and get it the fuck out there. I’m extremely happy with the results, and am in debt to my two friends who contributed their original artwork, Luca McGrath and Taylor Lea Macias. I edited, printed, stapled, and numbered this issue, next one will feature a different editor with a different perspective. This is 18 pages of content, mainly b/w, on 8x11 paper, with three different colors of covers, orange, blue and red. If you’re interested in buying one here is the purchasing link, I will ship anywhere in the US! Thanks for your time.
I made these! If you’re interested buy one, support creative expansion!
The beautiful intro to Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007).
“Brother” by Shee Phon.
Written for a small zine I’ll be printing sometime soon. There’ll be other stories along with this one, in different media!
This turned out a lot more pessimistic than I’d expected, uh oh. I even got a little down revising it.
(via comicsworkbook)
Sarah Nicole Prickett at her home, shot for Mask Magazine “Persona” issue. Check out the full interview on the link below.
http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-persona-issue/life/sarah-nicole-prickett
One problem with the “personal essay” is that it requires the essayist to speak too plainly and for too many people “as a woman,” “as a black woman,” “as a black queer woman,” rather than to write in a womanly style, a black womanly style, a black queer womanly style—a personal style, the thing I feel so passionately and contradictorily about. There are so many essays with no style which are subsequently not essays at all. Didion said style was character. Hardwick said style was fate. Someone else I’m sure has said what I believe, which is that style is argument (again, there is nothing more stylish than an argument raged against yourself, and there is nothing less stylish than an argument raged against people who don’t even care about you, which is one of the traps of what we now call “identity politicking” (never mind that in America all politics are identity politics)).
Another problem with the “personal essay” in our moment is that it mistakes the first person for the personal. An essay can’t just be about something that happened to you because you’re you. Everything has happened to someone; what new can you make of it is the question. There is nothing more personal than the connections you see between seemingly disconnected things, the ability to do so being, as I learned in an old episode of the X Files, “a mark of genius”; I just think it’s a mark of individuality, which is normal and easy to confuse with genius. There are enough geniuses but not enough individuals. There are a lot of people who know a lot, but knowing a lot is no reason to write an essay. Neither is feeling a lot. Neither is having learned a lot: a good essay is not a lesson but a relentless taking apart of the object(s).
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