Tag: Art
From “The Nib” Newsletter
“The Nib” still comes in email sometimes. This is an item that could be of interest, also not about very current US election news (though there could be a tad here and there. I mean this item; “The Nib” still has plenty political for right now.) Anyway, back to this; I keep thinking there are people reading here who don’t comment, and that maybe any of us is an artist interested in moving forward with their art, and this can help. -A
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So, I can’t tell what’s showing and what isn’t. On the posting page, I can see the little block with the title, the hyperlink, and the tiny blurb. When I look at the preview, though, all I can see is “Home” as a hyperlink; it goes to Crucial Comix. So, below, is a snip from Crucial Comix’s “About” page. Check it out!
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home for essential nonfiction comics and zines.
Founded in 2024, we are a cartoonist-run small press that publishes narrative nonfiction comics and offers compelling classes on comics-making and practice.
Our Values
We believe that comics are a powerful way to shape how we perceive ourselves and the world. Comics can capture emotional realities, offering a profound way express feelings and experiences that are impossible to depict in words alone. Comics connect with readers, drawing new eyes to stories about politics, history, and identity. Comics are made around the world by people who want to share their ideas and dreams. In short, comics are crucial.
As cartoonists face down book bans, political censorship, and financial difficulty in publishing boundary-pushing work, it’s more important than ever to build a community of artists that is rooted in mutual support and enthusiasm.
Crucial Comix is all about skill-sharing, accessibility, flexibility, and experimentation. We are a small press that aims to be always evolving so we can be a relevant and reliable resource for artists. Our pitches are always open. Our classes are all offered sliding-scale. Our comics are all free to read. Each season, we welcome a cohort of volunteer editors to guide up-and-coming artists through the process of making a nonfiction comic.
Get Involved
Are you looking to make comics based on real life? You take a class, submit or pitch a comic, or hire Crucial artists and writers to work on your project. You can also hire us to come teach classes or workshops at your school, library, or workplace.
Are you an artist or writer who wants to get involved in our community? You’re welcome to join our mailing list to find out about upcoming events and fun stuff. Everyone who completes a workshop or class with Crucial is invited to join our private Discord. If you’re interested in becoming an editor for Crucial someday, consider taking our editing class.
Want to ask us a question about your particular situation? Feel free to email us at editors@crucialcomix.com. If you’re looking to submit a comic, check out our submission guidelines.
Want to send us a copy of your zines? You can upload a zine to our submissions form or drop them in the snail mail: Crucial Comix, PO Box 17253, Portland, OR 97217
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It’s kinda been a day so I’m just finishing off comics at 9:30 PM Sunday; I found this on the GoComics Non Sequitur page! So cool!
It’s fun to window shop-enjoy!
True, this-
The same thing goes with humans really. by Jenny Lawson (thebloggess)
To be flawed is to be real. Read on Substack
Someone asked me why I draw flowers so often when I don’t really seem like a “pretty, floral kind of girl” and that’s a very fair question (and possibly a hidden insult?) so I made this in response:
“The lovely thing about drawing flowers is that when I fuck them up they just seem more real.”
The same thing goes for people, really. Our strangeness and flaws make us real.
Don’t be afraid to embrace yours, sweet friend.
Love,
Jenny
Maybe Someone Can Use a Short Humor Break?
Enjoy a quick Cover Snark! Click through and enjoy the comments, as well. It is a safe place there.
Cover Snark: Reptiles are an Unintentional Theme
by Amanda · Oct 28, 2024 at 3:00 am · View all 7 comments
Welcome back to Cover Snark!
From Rachael: I have so many questions:
Does she not want him to save her from what looks to be an alligator?
Is that alligator okay? His hips seem off.
Should his gun be that close to the water?
Why are they casually having a moment in this clearly dangerous water??!!
Did they keep their shoes on?
Sarah: She’s a shifter. So is the gator. That’s her brother and she has to talk him out of shooting the gator because again, brother.
Also, how come his shirt is wet at the neck and pits but his pants, which are IN WATER, are dry?
Sneezy: I respect alligators and crocodiles the same way I respect bears and moose – from far, far away.
Sarah: That cover is so disturbing to me. Every time I look at it I get a low-grade ick.
Amanda: Yeah, the shoulder area in particular.
Sarah: Looking again, yup, still ick.
Sneezy: My ick is how OBVIOUSLY COPY AND PASTE they are! THIS IS LITERALLY THE LARGEST AND MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THIS DESIGN!
From Lillian P: Green with fish scales? Red belly and abs? Floating in space? And red and yellow font for the title.
Sarah: Someone got reeeeally excited about learning how to use textures in Photoshop.
Amanda: As someone who owned snakes and has touched many a reptile, I don’t know how I’d feel about sexy time with someone with scales.
Sneezy: I’m really into snake people, but only if they have hemi-penises. What’s the point otherwise?
Also from Lillian P: Not one, not two, but three floating aliens all checking themselves out?
Sarah: I’m so sorry I cannot stop laughing at this. It’s so funny. They’re all so pensive! Glowing swords and kilts and a wee-wee stare-off.
Claudia: Oh man I feel we’ve done this one but maybe all the wee-wee staring is blending together!!
Amanda: They all look like they’ve fallen asleep standing up. Like horses.
Sonnet on The Spectrum
Break out the hairspray and rollers: big hair is back
Don’t worry – the stiff helmets of 1980s TV soaps are a thing of the past. Here’s how to bulk out your bouffant the 2024 way
Not a thing I thought I would see again, “helmet” or not, though I know things come back around every 20 years. But it’s been resisted for so long! Anyway, for those who care about their hairstyle. I loved bigger hair on me, but I simply don’t have time anymore.
Snippets:
If you’ve spent the past 10 years trying – and failing – to do those loose, carefree, beachy waves, then you can finally put down your tongs, tend to your burns and give it all up as a bad job. Hair is changing. And, it seems, expanding outwards.
Big hair is back on the catwalk, with models wearing backcombed bouffants befitting the Oil Baron’s Ball. But, says revered hairstylist Sam McKnight, who took inspiration from Princess Michael of Kent and 1980s Sloane Rangers for the hair at Vivienne Westwood SS25, and backcombed big, pouffy supermodel blowdries at 16 Arlington, the new big hair is nothing like the helmet hair of 80s fashion.
The new “Dynasty hair” is strong, but much softer-looking. And thanks to an explosion in DIY hair tutorials online, it’s something that can be achieved fairly quickly at home. “It’s not about a proper, painstaking blow-dry with loads of sections and a round brush,” McKnight told me post-fashion week. (snip-procedure on the page)
Even if this “easier” way to volumise is above your pay grade, just rolling your hair up in jumbo bendy rollers will give it way more volume come morning, as the heat from your head moulds it. Believe me, I was sceptical. But a light mist of dry shampoo such as Batsite Overnight Deep Cleanse (£4.25), one Satin Jumbo Flexi-Rod by Kitsch (£19 for four) at the front, winding backwards, another at the back winding under, and one at each side, worn to bed, give my flat, fine barnet major bounce at breakfast.
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/oct/19/sali-hughes-hairspray-and-rollers-big-hair-is-back
Peace & Justice History for 10/26:
| October 26, 1916 Margaret Sanger and her sister were arrested for disseminating birth control information at her Brownsville Clinic in Brooklyn; she was arrested again a few weeks later for the same reason and the police shut the clinic down within 10 days.  Margaret Sanger |
October 26, 1970  Garry Trudeau, 1976“Doonesbury”, a cartoon series addressing political and social issues written by Garry Trudeau, and initially published in a the Yale Daily News when Trudeau was a student, debuted in 28 newspapers. |
| October 26, 1986 President Ronald Reagan vetoed a bill passed by the Congress that would have imposed trade sanctions on the racially separatist apartheid regime of South Africa. |
| October 26, 1994 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin and Jordanian Prime Minister Abdelsalam al-Majali, with President Clinton in attendance, formally signed a peace treaty ending 46 years of war at a ceremony in the desert area of Wadi Araba on the Israeli-Jordanian border. President of Israel Ezer Weizman shook hands with Jordan’s King Hussein.  Read more |
https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryoctober.htm#october26
Stressed about the election? Try this Kansas-centric playlist.
(You may not like them all, or any of them. Listen to what you like; that’s what I’m doing. All the commentary is good. I saw this last night in my Women for KS newsletter, and wanted to share. Enjoy! -A)
MAX MCCOY OCTOBER 20, 2024 3:33 AM
Peace & Justice History for 10/25:
| October 25, 1955 |
 Sadako Sasaki | Sadako Sasaki, following the Japanese custom of folding paper cranes – symbols of good fortune and longevity – persisted daily in folding cranes, hoping to create senbazuru (1000 paper cranes strung together) when a person’s dream is believed to come true, died. |
| The Sadako story | |
 | Sadako was two years old when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and at 12 was diagnosed with Leukemia, “the atom bomb” disease. Children’s Peace Monument in Hiroshima showing Sadako holding a golden crane Photo: Mark Bledstein |  |
https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryoctober.htm#october241981
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