The various misadventures of the squishy slime mold creature Poly Morphous! I first started telling queer fairy tales about her in ‘14, and they transformed into sorta sad, sorta funny stream-of-consciousness stories about isolation, anxiety, depression, and generally Going Through It. Below are all the comics I’ve made about her, organized neatly with descriptions for your reading pleasure:
Poly Morphous is back, and she’s got too many emotions to fit in her chubby lil body! A story about anxiety and the fear/desire for companionship, printed in delicious tart blueberry flavors. Debuted at the first RIPE ‘14 in RI.
It’s a drizzly sad kind of day and all Poly Morphous wants to do is nap, but that’s a bigger challenge than she expects. Debuted at SPX ‘14 (ML) as a minty lavender mini. Snzzz…
A 2nd floaty collection of short comics and art - 20 pages of Poly’s thoughts on self-hate, mental illness, and and learning to take care of yourself. Equal parts silly and sad, an invitation to feel frustrations and accept your limits. Debuted at RIPE ‘16, and includes Freeze Up, Un/Focus, and I Miss Being Comfortable.
It’s hard being a person sometimes, and Poly Morphous is just not having it today! Sometimes you just have to have a complete meltdown and lay on the floor and wail, you know? A scrabbly scribbly comic about grappling with the pain of self-hate. Debuted at MICE ‘16 (MA).
[ID: Close up photo of a Deep Forest #3 comics page in progress, depicting wolf girl sitting up on a trash heap and looking around inquisitively, with Regina in the background, tool in one hand, forcefully kicking some chunk of plastic/metal with a KLONK. her backpack is in the foreground. The panel is inked with brushpen on top of printed blue pencils.]
there are comics growing in the woods :O I tried reprinting “wolf girl” with an ivory cover instead of the usual yellow, and it turned out pretty, I think. I had fun wandering around the Blackstone Park finding places to pose them all, haha.
follow the source link or look me up on storenvy at “laurellynnleake” if you want a copy - when you buy wolf girl + DF#1-2 together I’ll bundle ‘em up with a discount too. I also sell other comics and prints that aren’t about Deep Forest, if you can believe it!
This comic has a special guest appearances by my nonbinary friends :3 Sometimes I just go with the cleanest bathroom. or the one that has a wifi signal. or I just go whatever bathroom my friends use, to be safe.
Goldfinch is an LGBT high fantasy gangster noir! The book will be 150 pages jam fucking packed with bad driving, gun fights, regular fights, goblins, two girls falling in love during war time, and irresponsible distribution of potions.
We are so excited to share this project with everyone. I hope you guys go over and check it out! Every little bit helps so even if you’re not able to back the project please share out the link and show your friends. It makes a huge difference in getting eyes on the book and we would be eternally grateful!
Goldfinch is an LGBT high fantasy gangster noir created by @the_bowen_arrow and I!
We are so excited to share this project with everyone. I hope you guys go over and check it out! Every little bit helps so even if you’re not able to back the project please share out the link and show your friends. It makes a huge difference in getting eyes on the book and we would be eternally grateful!
#inktober day 3: Goldfinch giggles. Inspired by part of the script from chapter two.
Goldfinch is a graphic novel @punch-chinsky and I are getting ready for a kickstarter! ❤ It’s a story we’re extremely passionate about, so I do hope you’ll follow along with us and enjoy learning more about it! @punch-chinskyis doing Goldfinch for all of her inktobers, so please go follow her too! Includes info on the characters and world building<3
Brief Summary: This is a non linear graphic novel and memoir that focuses on the Bechdel family. More specifically, it focuses on Alison’s relationship with her father, and his tumultuous relationship with his family. Throughout the story, she also confronts the struggles she had with her sexual identity and how she connects that to her father’s death.
Writing Style: As this is a graphic novel, most of it is in dialogue. However, there’s a really good amount of author commentary. I thought that was really cool because a big part of creative nonfiction (memoirs, personal essays) is creating a good balance between author commentary and the other aspects of the work (scene, exposition, reflection). I didn’t think it would work as well in graphic novel form but Bechdel really pulled it off.
My Opinion: Early in the book, Bechdel mentions how her parents are real to her in fictional terms. This may sound confusing, but the way she uses modernism and modernist texts to understand the struggles of her father is genuinely mind-blowing. As a lover of reading fiction and a lover of the craft, I can completely connect to the idea of using the media we consume (books, TV shows, film) to come to realizations in our own lives. It was powerful watching Bechdel move through that thought process. Another thing I really loved about this is that a lot of the panels are modeled after real life pictures. Alison uses this to demonstrate who her father was in real life compared to how he presented himself to outsiders. Overall, I highly recommend this. It’s highly personal and very powerful.
Notable Quotes:
“I employ these allusions to James and Fitzgerald not only as descriptive devices, but because my parents are most real to me in fictional terms.”
“Sometimes, when things were going well, I think my father actually enjoyed having a family. Or at least, the air of authenticity we leant to his exhibit. A sort of still life with children.”
[image description: two Facebook screencaps. The first is “We Removed Something You Posted. We removed the post below because it doesn’t follow the Facebook Community Standards: Sassafras Lowrey posted “at least 2017 has brought us the return of Dykes To Watch Out For (which I didn’t used to read, because I was firmly on the Hothead side of the lesbian comic binary… but now I do?)"” The second screencap is “You’re Temporarily Blocked From Posting: This temporary block will last 24 hours, and you won’t be able to post on Facebook until it’s finished. / Please keep in mind that people who repeatedly post things that aren’t allowed on Facebook may have their accounts permanently disabled.”]
Author Sassafras Lowrey was blocked from posting on Facebook for mentioning Dykes To Watch Out For–or more specifically, for using the word “dyke” at all.
It’s no secret I love social media – and defying all logic, my favorite of the social media platforms has always been facebook. I had been seeing friends post about new policies where Facebook was blocking people or pulling content that used the word “dyke” as reclaimed and empowering identity language. I continued posting on my facebook like normal, and woke up this morning to discover that not only had a post I’d made yesterday sharing the newest Dykes To Watch Out For classic lesbian comic had been pulled for “violating community standards” but my profile had also been put on a 24 hour hold, and I’ve been reminded/threatened that repeat “offenses” could get my profile deleted.
Because there has been doubt that this is happening, I took screenshots
[ID: image 1: a photograph of a German Shepard and a deer inside a police car, both sticking their heads out the back seat window. Gold letters on the side of the car under the window read “Stay Gay”
Image 2: a drawing of the dog and deer, in purple, with a red heart around them and Stay Gay written slanted along the bottom of the heart in yellow.]
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You ever just look something and immediantly have OCs and a detailed backstory for each of them?
