Day 1: Sort Out Your Life Will

Day 1: Sort out your life Will

Dear Tumblr, I’m a 22 year old mess, trying to get my shit life together and write my Masters dissertation. I love comics, so I’m writing on that, and if you have any tips / recommendation / advice, then I would love love LOVE to hear from you. 

I’ve kept a diary for a long time, and will continue to do so, but I want to chronicle my learning and my life in a new way, to share it and make conversations happen and organise it all and go paper-free. 

BOOM, that’s what I’m here for.

(via Black Is the Color – by Julia Gfrörer)

Reposted after I figured out how to do picture posts :P An exquisitely beautiful comic from Study Group Comics. When I’m trying to show people that comics are more complex than they think, this is the site I send them too. 

Hi! Thank you for such an in-depth and thoughtful reply! ‘Stitches’ and ‘Velvet Glove’ both sounds as if they will be extremely useful, thank you! I’ll give the others a look too, the wordless work of Rafael Sica looks particularly interesting :) All the best, Will xx

Hi! I'm a big fan of 'Building Stories' here, I'm a literature student looking either for comics that use the form/medium in a unique and innovative way to express their narratives, OR for comics that touch upon the themes of monstrosity and deformity, (I have so far focused on 'Epileptic' by David B. and "Black Hole" by Charles Burns.) If you know any comics that focus on the stigmatisation of people with 'Othered' bodies that would be fantastic! Thank you so much!

comicstudent Hello! Thanks for your visit! How can I answer your question? I’m not a great scholar, not as deep comics connoisseur so! I’m just a fan, as you are too! ;-) Well what can I now remember are the stories of the brothers Hernandez, which you can find in “Love and Rockets”. I also remember the great “Stitches” by David Small. We can not forget the powerful “Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron” of Daniel Clowes. Then there are other languages, “Ma circoncision” of Riad Sattouf. “Acht, Neun, Zehn” of Arne Bellstorf. “Insekt” and “Vier Augen” of Sascha Hommer. It would be nice you visit the catalog publishers like The Fantagraphics, Drawn and Quarterly and the like. The Le'Association from Paris, The Reprodukt from German. And the Cachalote in Brazil. Look for work of Rafael Coutinho and Rafael Sica, both Brazilians. By the way Rafael Sica does not use speech, point! Sorry for the translator;-)

Brazil Hugs.

(via Haunter – Part 1 – by Sam Alden)

Haunter: an incredible comic from Study Group Comics. Wordless watercolour. 

Read Part Two Here

HKAPA Chinese Dance - Nirvana

If I had magic powers, I would make it snow cherry blossom petals every evening at sunset.

Rad Queers: Edie Fake from Graham Kolbeins on Vimeo.

Thank you, Anya Davidson, for the great recommendation of Edie Fake’s “Gaylord Phoenix”! It’s a great complimentary text to “Black Hole” in its themes and it’s also really gorgeously illustrated. :)