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Hey, it’s MerMay! I drew a really silly comic! (It’s a redraw/expansion of this silly thing from eight years ago.)
Some recent PLUNGE concept art!
Another concept illustration, from the next issue of Queer Thrills. Margot gets a warm welcome from some cuddly, flirty faery folk.
I live! The pandemic may not be over, but I’m done letting it sap my creative energy. So, starting off with some concept illustrations … here’s Angie and Way from PLUNGE, on their journey between Angie’s escape pod crash site and Way’s aquatic settlement home.
Artistic nudity is still allowed!!!!
Some sketchbook weirdness
Death Juice! It’ll kill ya!!!!!
Tired sketchin at work this weekend
Book 1, Page 117
SuperButch is a webcomic by Becky Hawkins and Barry Deutsch about a lesbian superhero in the 1940s who protects the bar scene from corrupt cops. If you’d like to help us make more, please support the SuperButch patreonorcheck out our print comics. Thanks!
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Book 1, Page 116
SuperButch is a webcomic by Becky Hawkins and Barry Deutsch about a lesbian superhero in the 1940s who protects the bar scene from corrupt cops. If you’d like to help us make more, please support the SuperButch patreonorcheck out our print comics. Thanks!
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Book 1, Page 115
SuperButch is a webcomic by Becky Hawkins and Barry Deutsch about a lesbian superhero in the 1940s who protects the bar scene from corrupt cops. If you’d like to help us make more, please support the SuperButch patreonorcheck out our print comics. Thanks!
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Book 1, Page 114
SuperButch is a webcomic by Becky Hawkins and Barry Deutsch about a lesbian superhero in the 1940s who protects the bar scene from corrupt cops. If you’d like to help us make more, please support the SuperButch patreonorcheck out our print comics. Thanks!
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How Dare They Call Me A Conservative!
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To read my notes about the cartoon, check out the (unlocked) original patreon post!
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON:
This cartoon has six panels. All six panels feature a 50ish white man, wearing glasses and a suit jacket over a black tee shirt, speaking directly to the viewer. Two of the panels are much narrower than the other four. In addition to those six panels, there’s also a tiny “kicker” panel below the bottom of the cartoon.
PANEL 1
A medium shot of the man. He is speaking excitedly and angrily at the viewer, holding a fist in the air. We can see there’s a tree behind him.
MAN: Did you read my article in Quibbette? I show how there’s no freedom of speech for anyone criticizing the “woke” fascists!
PANEL 2
A longer shot lets us see he’s standing on a path on what might be a college quadrangle. It’s a park-like space with trees and a faux-roman style building in the background. He continues to speak intensely, holding up a forefinger to make a point.
MAN: Like I said in the Times, the campus left are coddled, free-speech hating totalitarians!
PANEL 3
In a closer shot, and a much smaller, narrower panel, the man, smiling, cups his mouth with a hand to whisper to the viewer. He’s making a thumbs up sign with his other hand.
MAN (whispering): Psst! I’m pro-choice, and I voted for Obama.
PANEL 4
He’s back to angry rant mode, raising both hands into the air.
MAN: Like I said on Fox: The Democrats have been taken over by identitarian totalitarians who hate white men!
PANEL 5
Again smiling and whispering in a much narrower panel.
MAN: Psst! Have I mentioned I have a Black friend?
PANEL 6
In the final panel, the man has a hurt expression, and is holding one hand flat on his chest.
MAN: And how dare they call me a conservative after I took all those liberal positions!
SMALL KICKER PANEL BELOW BOTTOM OF STRIP
Still talking directly at the viewer, the man looks angry again.
MAN: And why can’t those fascist totalitarian cowardly thugs be more civil?
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Both Sides Are Equally Bad!
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To read my notes about the cartoon, check out the original patreon post!
Transcript of Cartoon:
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has six panels; two rows containing five panels between them, and then a final row with just a single large panel.
Panel 1
Three people stand on a city sidewalk talking. There is “Mr. Right,” a bald white man wearing a dress shirt and a tie; a woman wearing glasses, a white collared shirt and a floral skirt; and “Ms. Left,” a black-haired woman wearing a hoodie and jeans.
Glasses has turned to her left, to address Ms Left.
GLASSES: Whats’ the worst thing you do, Ms Left?
MS LEFT: Well,.. Some of our extremists punch people, and not everyone punched is a Nazi.
Panel 2
Glasses has now turned to her right, to ask Mr Right a question.
GLASSES: And Mr Right, what’s the worst thing you do?
MR RIGHT: Oh, you know… Forced child separation, inhumane detention camps, and mass shootings inspired by the violent rhetoric of our highest elected leaders.
Panel 3
A close-up of Glasses, who is holding up a hand with a “stop!” gesture and looking upward as if thinking.
GLASSES: But if you both do violence… Then that means…
Panel 4
An even tighter close-up of Glasses. Her hands are up on her face, and her eyes are wide, as if she’s having a startling realization.
GLASSES: That both of you are…
Panel 5
A very tight close-up of Glasses’ face - her entire head doesn’t even fit in the panel. She’s grinning too wide and sweating and looks very intense. Her dialog in this panel, rather than being contained in a dialog balloon, is done in huge, happy letters superimposed over the image.
GLASSES: EQUALLY BAD!
Panel 6
A large panel, showing Mr. Right and Glasses grinning and dancing joyously while they sing. Musical notes fill the air around them. On the far right of the panel, Ms Left is facepalming.
MR RIGHT (sings): Equally bad! Equally bad!
GLASSES (sings): Equally bad!
MS LEFT (thought): Why do I even talk to centrists?
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Portland is a War Zone!
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This cartoon is a collaboration with Becky Hawkins. Becky and I have done other political cartoons together, and we also collaborate on our webcomic SuperButch. (Also here on tumblr)
To read my notes about the cartoon, check out the original patreon post!
Transcript of Cartoon:
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has five panels. The first four panels are narrow, and show a tight close-up of a woman’s head and shoulders as she talks on a cell phone. The final panel is a long shot, showing a sidewalk scene.
Panel 1
A woman with blonde hair, and glasses pushed up on top of her head, talks on a cell phone. She looks frightened.
WOMAN: If you don’t live in Portland, you can’t imagine what it’s like. It’s a friggin’ war zone here!
Panel 2
She continues speaking into her cell phone, now looking a bit angry.
WOMAN: Every day we’re dodging tear gas and concrete milkshakes! Proud boys and antifa are everywhere!
Panel 3
She holds up one hand to cup by her mouth, as if whispering.
WOMAN: Don’t print my name…. I don’t want to become their next target.
Panel 4
She looks wide-eyed and panicked as she presses the button to hang up the phone.
WOMAN: Even talking to you like this– oh no! Someone’s coming! No, NO! Please, don’t hurt me! AAARGH!
PHONE: Click.
Panel 5
The “camera” has backed very far back, and we can now see that the woman is sitting with a friend at an outdoor table on the sidewalk in front of a restaurant or cafe. The friend is wide-eyed with shock; the woman is sipping her coffee and smiling as if she’s very pleased with herself.
We can also see almost a full block of the sidewalk they’re sitting on, and some of the street. It’s a peaceful street scene; diners sit at tables with striped umbrellas; a mom pushes a baby carriage; a parent bikes by with a toddler seated between the parent and the handle bars; two children play catch; further back, a woman in a black dress bikes, her black hair blowing behind her. The red brick building has green paint accents, and in the distance, trees and a mountain can be seen behind the city buildings.
WOMAN: God, I love out-of-town reporters!
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Book 1, Page 115
SuperButch is a webcomic by Becky Hawkins and Barry Deutsch about a lesbian superhero in the 1940s who protects the bar scene from corrupt cops. If you’d like to help us make more, please support the SuperButch patreonorcheck out our print comics. Thanks!
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Book 1, Page 114
SuperButch is a webcomic by Becky Hawkins and Barry Deutsch about a lesbian superhero in the 1940s who protects the bar scene from corrupt cops. If you’d like to help us make more, please support the SuperButch patreonorcheck out our print comics. Thanks!
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It’s Excessive Occupational Licensing, Charlie Brown!
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This cartoon is a collaboration with Becky Hawkins. Becky and I have done other political cartoons together, and we also collaborate on our webcomic SuperButch.
To read my notes about the cartoon, check out the original patreon post!
Transcript:
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has four panels, plus a small extra “kicker” panel below the bottom of the strip. Each panel has the same setting – a green field with blue sky, and a childish booth, drawn to resemble Lucy’s “psychiatric help, the doctor is in” booth from the comic strip Peanuts. But this booth says “State Legislature, the Senator is in.”
Behind the desk is a white man with gray hair and a conservative suit and tie.
Panel 1
The Senator sits behind his booth, listening with his head resting on one hand. A Black person with braided hair has walked up to the booth and is talking to him.
BRAIDER: I’m starting a business braiding Black people’s hair. But the law says I can’t until I’ve taken two thousand hours of training in styling white people’s hair.
Panel 2
The Braider keeps on talking, getting a bit more passionate. Behind them, a grinning man wearing a v-neck shirt and a blazer, with a full beard and carefully styled hair, walks on, waving “hi.”
BRAIDER: Even becoming an Emergency Medical Technician only takes thirty three hours of training! This makes no sense!
SENATOR: This is Bob Johnson of the State Hairdresser’s Association. What do you say, Bob?
Panel 3
Bob leans his elbow on the Senator’s desk, oozing confidence. The Senator listens like an attentive schoolboy. Behind Bob, unnoticed, the Braider looks angry and appalled.
BOB: It’s far too dangerous to permit competit- I mean, to permit unlicensed hair braiding.
BOB: On a completely unrelated note, we’re increasing our donation to your re-election campaign.
Panel 4
The Senator, with a satisfied air, leans back on his chair, hands behind his head and feet on his desk. Bob grins and makes a “hand gun” gesture towards the Senator. The braider raises her hands into the air, and has a huge open mouth of despair and objection as she yells.
SENATOR: After careful deliberation, I’ve concluded unlicensed braiding would be a grave threat to public safety.
BOB: Thanks, Jeff. Lunch?
BRAIDER: THIS IS A TERRIBLE SYSTEM!
Small kicker panel below the bottom of the strip.
The Senator is talking to the braider.
SENATOR: If you don’t want to buy thousands of hours of training about white people’s hair, aren’t youtherealracist?
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What I Wish I Said/What I Said
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Transcript of Cartoon:
This cartoon has four panels, plus a small panel underneath the strip. The first and last panels are colored in shades of purple; panels 2 and 3 are colored in shades of blue-green. All four panels show three people walking through a hilly park. There’s a thin short man in a striped shirt; a thin woman with glasses and black hair in a ponytail; and a bald fat man wearing a button-down shirt.
Panel 1
Stripes and Glasses are cheerfully chatting, and Baldy looks back at them, looking concerned.
STRIPES: I ate too much on vacation and now I’m so fat and gross!
GLASSES: I know just what you mean! Let me describe my new diet in mind-numbing detail!
Panel 2
A large caption at the top of the panel says “WHAT I WISH i SAID:”. The three of them have stopped walking; Baldy has turned around and is talking to Stripes and Glasses, who are listening.
BALDY: Hold on a sec. Neither of you are fat. But I am. When thin people call themselves fat and gross, what does that imply about me?
Panel 3
The three have resumed walking as they talk. Glasses is thinking as she speaks, a hand on her chin; Baldy has his hands spread in front of him as he talks, Stripes, looking perhaps a bit nettled, is raising a finger to make a point.
GLASSES: I hear you, but isn’t this just how an anti-fat and misogynistic society has conditioned us all?
BALDY: But it still feels like you’re co-signing anti-fat bigotry. And I’m sure I’m not your only fat friend you’re making uncomfortable.
STRIPES: That’s not what I meant to do….
Panel 4
This panel has a large panel at the top, which says “WHAT I SAID:”. In the background, stripes and glasses are happily chatting with each other. In the foreground, Baldy is walking away, with a hand on his stomach as if he’s got an upset tummy.
STRIPES: Diet talk calories lifestyle change blah blah
GLASSES: Carbs keto diet talk blah blah blah
BALDY: Gotta go. Bye.
Small “kicker” panel under the bottom of the strip
Barry the cartoonist speaks directly to the reader.
BARRY: The funny thing is, at one time or another, I’ve been all three of these characters.
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Thought Congestion
Another collaboration with Becky Hawkins! (frenchtoastcomix) This one was written by me, and drawn by Becky. If you enjoy these cartoons, please reblog or support them on my Patreon . A $1 pledge really helps!
To read my notes about the cartoon, check out the original patreon post!
Transcript:
TRANSCRIPT OF COMIC
The comic has four panels.
PANEL 1
The panel shows backed-up traffic on an overpass in the foreground. In the background, we can see more backed-up highways, and behind that the buildings of a small city, including a white building with a big dome on top and a US flag - i.e., a government building. Two word balloons come from that building. The balloons belong to characters I will call MAYOR and NERD.
MAYOR: The city just spent half a billion widening roads. But we still have traffic congestion!
NERD: Well, Mr. Mayor, studies show that adding lanes doesn’t fix traffic.
PANEL 2
Inside the mayor’s office. There is a big curtained window and a fancy executive desk with a big leather chair. In front of the desk is the Mayor - a man in a suit with gray hair - and a woman who is a nerd, by which I mean she’s wearing glasses, has her hair in a bun, and is carrying a stack of three-ring binders.
The Mayor is making a “stop talking” gesture, holding up a hand flat in front of the nerd’s face. The mayor looks angry, and his eyes are bloodshot.
NERD: People’s capacity to drive is greater than our capacity to build roads, so-
MAYOR: Blah blah blah! We’ve got to do something!
PANEL 3
The mayor, now looking happy, makes a big sweeping gesture with his hand, causing the surprised nerd to drop her binders.
NERD: Um…
MAYOR: I’ve got it!
PANEL 4
The mayor and the nerd are now on stage, the mayor behind the podium and the nerd to one side and behind him. There is a cheering crowd watching the mayor speak.
The Mayor is waving a hand grandly as he speaks. The nerd is face-palming.
MAYOR: Good news, citizens! We’re widening the roads again!
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