#transgender comics
COMICS ART EXHIBITION: SEQUENTIAL SELF
I’m excited to be apart of this show and have a few of my original comics on display.
“The Galleries at Eastfield College present “Sequential Self: Female, Non-Binary, Trans, and Queer Voices in Comics and Zines,” an exhibition focusing on underrepresented artists in the genre of comics and zines. Artists will include Sophie Campbell, KD Diamond, Robin Elan and L.M. Zoller, Melanie Gillman, Sarah Glidden, Erika Moen, Erin Nations, Molly Roth, and Christine Suggs.
Female, Non-Binary, Trans, and Queer voices, though not new to the comics genre, have existed at the margins while predominantly cis white male voices and characters were the focus of mainstream comics. Since the recent growth in diversity among comic artists and writers, there are now more voices and stories that reflect a variety of experiences and identities. This exhibition illuminates some of the powerful voices and innovative stories in the contemporary age of comics.
Much of the work that exists outside the big name comic publishers feature personal storylines, often autobiographical and sometimes closely linked to the artist’s identity or intimate life. The 11 artists/authors in “Sequential Self” wrestle with concepts including, friendship, war, coming of age, queer experience, racial tensions, and online dating, while also moving away from grandiose fictitious scenarios, to more realistic ones grounded in personal experiences.
Following the opening reception, the exhibit will be on view through April 23.”
LINKS:FACEBOOK EVENT PAGEandEASTFIELD COLLEGE
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I received an email recently regarding this comic, so I decided to revisit it. This is a panel from one of the comics in Gumballs. This panel makes me cringe with embarrassment. It brings me back to the fear of being caught. It’s my earliest memory of gender dysphoria. From childhood to adulthood, I would sometimes put a sock in my pants for a brief moment just to see what it looked like and felt like. I revealed my secret for the first time in this book. There are several memories I have like this one. There were plenty of times when I knew I was trans, but I repressed it deeply. I don’t know how I managed to do it for 32 years. I wish I had the visibility and the language that kids have today, but it’s better late than never. I’m thankful for the people who have made themselves visible throughout the years. I’m thankful for the advocates, the people who work to change laws, and for those who educate. Without them, I would still be hiding who I am.
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Inking is my favorite part of making comics. Enjoy this little clip of me adding tiny marks to a knitted sweater. Turn the volume up if you want an ASMR experience. (Excuse the sounds of my radiator.) .
A new comic that’ll be contributed to a new anthology. Details TBA at a much later date.
This panel depicts the anxiety and confusion I feel when trying to process how people treated me when I was read as female, and how they treat me now as male. It’s a bit of a mind fuck when society tells you to follow certain roles because of your perceived gender and then one day, the switch flips and you’re suddenly told to do the opposite of what you were socialized. Regardless if you’ve always been gender non-conforming, and reject the idea of gender roles/stereotypes, it’s still stressful to be in environments (or around people) who strongly enforce them.
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In Other News…
This little baby was released 2 years ago, today! My first published comic book.
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Page ¼. A sample from a new comic in Full Bleed Vol. 3: Heavy Rotation. Release Date: TBA. Check out the Kickstarter to learn more. This comic is about my own paranoia and fears while traveling as a trans person (especially to conservative towns), and the assumptions one can make. This about the time I flew to my parents house 2 years ago for Christmas.
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This is sample of a comic I created for the anthology How To Wait: An Anthology of Transition. It’s about the wait that occurs during different stages of my transition.
“How to Wait is an art, writing, and comics anthology, edited by Sage Persing, that collects the work of 30 trans, nonbinary, and gender-non-conforming artists as they attempt to cope with the myriad forms of waiting that come with their transitions and experience of gender.”
Contributors Include: Gabriel Howell, AJ Rio-Glick, E.L. Tedana, Allspice, Erin Nations, Joris Bas Backer, Sam Owens, Maia Kobabe, Samuel Luke, Krysta Morningstarr-Cox, Oliver Northwood, Indie Beare, Laurel Lynne Leake, Mister Loki, Ash Wadi, Kou Chen, Sage Persing, Kat Ghastly, Will Betke-Brunswick, Simon Williamson, Veronica Casson, Joa Blumenkranz, Charlie Davies, Jae Zander Kitinoja, Jamie Diaz, Sonya Saturday, Oce, Ajuan Mance, Kimball Anderson, Maia Vlcek
To read the full comic, support trans/non binary/gender non-conforming artists and buy a copy online! (As of 04/28/2019, the book is sold out, but it’s being reprinted and copies should be available in two weeks!)
ORDER “HOW TO WAIT” HERE
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I’m thrilled to announce that Gumballs has been nominated for an Eisner Award!! It’s an honor to be nominated for “Best Publication for Teens (13-17).”
You can read the full list of the 2019 nominees at San Diego Comic-Con International. (Head over to Top Shelf Productions to read about the other fantastic titles from Top Shelf that were nominated.)
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#48
Sometimes you just gotta evaporate, there’s no other way.
This is a true story, and it dragged on for ten minutes in front of an entire studio class. 0/10, would not recommend such an experience.
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This summer was a really sweaty one, and I didn’t realize that it had repercussions until recently! I basically got the equivalent of athlete’s foot except on my tum, so now my doctor has me rubbing tea tree oil on my spots and Drew keeps making jokes about how I’m a real fun guy.If you can, please consider supporting me onPatreon so I can make more art!
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This comic is kind of a sequel to last week’s. I am happy with my fuzz, but there is a lot of conversation that comes up with it. I have a pending referral for an endocrinologist, but it’s not for a while, and I’m trying to just embrace that sometimes people are hairy! It doesn’t need to be for any reason that is known or makes sense.
One of my favourite stories about transitioning while hairy is by Sabah Choudrey, and you can read it here!
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This week we have a short timeline of my relationship with my face fuzz, ending where we are today! I feel like I sort of dodged a bullet in terms of where my plucking was going, and I’m happy that I get to experiment with how I express myself using what my face grows on its own. c:
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Drew has supported my shenanigans for sure, but GQutie has had yet to show just how many shenanigans Drew also gets up to. :DIf you can, please consider supporting me onPatreon so I can make more art!
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This week we have the origin story of Styx, the newest addition to the household. We were worried that it would be weird having another cat so soon after Tibi’s passing, but it’s actually went really well!…Except for the part where she got sick and had to spend half of her first week with us at the vet’s.
But for real, she’s doing great now! And we’re doing great, too.
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AND WE’RE BACK! The week I had off from GQutie went better than I could have imagined! I made lots of art and did lots of work cleaning up the apartment, including my new office! That’s right, I actually have a desk and a chair that don’t hurt my back!!This week’s comic is a reference to my well-known Mongoose comic. I totally think you can identify as whatever forest creature you like, I just personally like opossums as I, too, play dead when I’m scared. :’D They, along with vultures, are also largely immune to rabies and help remove virus from the environments they scavenge in!
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I’ve been trying to hold on, but I’m totally swamped, y’all. I’ve had lots of additional work, I hurt my back again, and I’m starting new medication. And that’s after the whirlwind of July and the beginning of August!BUT, this isn’t a hiatus! I’m just taking a week (two at most) to build a little bit of buffer so I can handle the nonsense that life seems to keep handing me.
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Hey, everyone! I only missed a week, but it’s still so good to be back.
For this comic I want to assure you that it’s totally cool that you did that One Embarrassing Thing in front of That One Cool Person, because I’ve totally done it too. :’D
In other news, hey it’s my birthday on Thursday!! I’m turning 24 this year, which I’m sure is really old for some of you and really young for others of you. Regardless of where you are though, y’all are pretty awesome. <333
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Being a trans and mentally ill/ neurodiverse immigrant in Canada is full of nervous “what-ifs”. After talking with my doctor though, it seems I don’t have much to worry about. The main difference between my case and the case of the kid with Down’s is that my mental health and gender didn’t come up on the required physical exam for my permanent residence app (I’m sure not being on hormones helped), whereas his did.I’m doing as well as I am in Canada (Ontario) because I am white and middle class with a white and middle class spouse, no doubt. Everyone else is at risk for denial at best and indefinite detention at worst. (CW: link contains description of abuse at immigration detention centres)
But that doesn’t stop the process from being stressful, ugh.
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This week’s comic is some recreations of photos Drew and I have taken in the past few months. I didn’t realize until I was flipping through them that we actually take a LOT of silly selfies.
You could say we….
….can’t keep a straight face
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A slightly more narrative comic is up this week! I wish supporting the mental health of students was a greater consideration in schools (and also that schools were less of a deciding factor in peoples’ well being in life, but yanno). I had SOME awareness that this was happening when I was still in university, but a lot of the bigger picture is only just starting to sharpen now, two years after graduation! And I’m still FAR from convincing any older adults in my life that “bad students” aren’t failing so much as society is failing them.If you can, please consider supporting me onPatreon so I can make more art!
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Only a minor update today. Drew and I recently lost one of our cats, Tibi. She’s had a lot of struggles, and we suspected she wouldn’t live as long as a lot of cats, but we didn’t think it would be so soon or so sudden.I miss her, and I’m really sad that none of y’all will get to meet her. EVERYONE who met her loved her right away, and she was a big fan of the attention. The only comic she showed up in was the one I posted a couple weeks ago. Still, she’s a big part of my life and will probably show up in future comics.
Thanks for the love, Tibi. I hope you liked all the pets. <3
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This week we have a little bit of angst. I tend to cope with stress by playing a video game or something else that’s not related to the stressy thing, but I also really like snuggling our animals (when they want to be snuggled, anyway).
I hope you all get to touch a cute animal today, and remember that you can totally live like there will be a tomorrow. <3
(PS: I totally love GQutie and my other comics work, I’ve just been itching to draw other things as well and I’m occasionally fussy about not being able to do it IMMEDIATELY RIGHT NOW)
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I’ve mentioned my pudge a couple times in this comic, and I’ve only continued to slowly but steadily gain weight since then. It’s of course brought to my attention all of the fatphobia that had been seeded in me since forever, but it’s also brought tiny joys as well! I have entertained myself lots of times just poking and jiggling all around in the mirror, and I highly recommend it!You can read a more in-depth comic about how I personally address my feelings around my body in this comic. <3
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[NOTE: I wasn’t able to find the specific technique that I was suspended with, so this is just pieced together from other ones I found. Please don’t use this as a reference for safe suspension!! Do your research/practice on consenting parties/always have safety scissors on hand/etc.]
I haven’t been all that involved in the BDSM community since moving to Peterborough for a variety of reasons (sigh), but this is still a fond memory and it’s great to see the reactions!
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Guess what! YEP, IT’S MORE PET COMICS! Sheppard is one of our two cats, the being Tibi. Sheppard looks like a tiny panther when he’s relaxing, but really he’s a giant baby and gets startled easily.If you can, please consider supporting me onPatreon so I can make more art!
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(Note: this conversation didn’t actually happen, being frustrated at a Service Ontario clerk wouldn’t have changed my situation XP)To elaborate on the story, everyone in Ontario has access to the province’s insurance (OHIP), which is great! Except as an immigrant, I don’t have access to the insurance until I’m either granted permanent residence (which takes about three years in my case) or I can prove that I’m working full time. I was recently able to provide that proof, but that was only after two years uninsured and unable to work until Drew and I payed to treat my depression out of pocket.
So yeah, I’m a little frustrated that in order to get the health care I needed to work, I needed to work to get the health care I needed….
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Sorry for putting this up fairly late in the day! I didn’t catch con crud from TCAF but I’m still pretty tuckered out from it.I haven’t listened to a lot of musicals recently, so I had forgotten why I banned myself from listening second acts while working. Hamilton reminded me. :’)
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GQutie has had a big part in practicing self-love, by drawing the parts of me I don’t like until I slowly grow to enjoy them. But my dislike of my voice is still the hardest to address, partly because it’s in the grey area of maybe-dysphoria-maybe-not.
To translate my silly academic feminist jargon, I feel like I sound gross when I speak really fast/with a high pitch (usually when I’m really excited), but that kind of voice is pooped on a lot by society so no wonder. :P Hopefully I’ll feel better about it someday.
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Of course, “beau” is a loanword and has different meaning in American/Canadian English, but I couldn’t resist the joke! Though, as I get a better handle on French, I’m definitely interested in looking into nonbinary francophones and what they do regarding pronouns, etc.(A comic about how I use “beau”.)
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