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guess who just finished drawing a very long Clois fancomic!!!

IT'S DONE (minus some adjustments and a cover) that took like 6 months and not because it was difficult but because I procrastinated on it like a dork

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so excited about the livestream!! do you know if there'll be a recording available for those of us who'll be asleep at that hour?

Yes! The link I provided for the livestream will be the same link for perpetuity! All PGCMLS's previous Lunch and Learn livestream interviews are still up on their youtube page so don't stress if you miss out on it :>

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We'll be doing a livestream interview!! Teaming up with Prince George's County Memorial Library System (PGCMLS), yours truly will be joining in on their "Lunch and Learn" youtube series- only for us it will be remixed to "Rise and Shine"! Get up early on March 10th at 7am EST with your breakfast munchines as we have a chill convo with PGCMLS about graphic novels and art! For me, that will be 6pm WIB so while y'all are having breakfast, I'll be eating a midnight/ dinner snack of sorts, heheh.

Scan the QR code for the link to the eventual livestream! Or you can click here. Bookmark that link and show up when the time comes…for the ritual. Ask us questions or drop a comment in the chat, we're here to have fun!

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A bunch of people are misinterpreting this as "discouraging aspiring authors from getting into trad pub" and that couldn't be further from the point? I say this as another author, this is clearly advice to ground your expectations going into the industry. I too once believed that if your story is just good, then you were owed being traditionally published. That's absolutely not the case- it's more about marketability and how sellable your story is (which btw doesn't negate how good your story can be just because it has broad market appeal, and vice versa an "unmarketable" story can still be quality work). Trad Pub is often mistaken as a platform for all sorts of stories, when in reality it's a business first and foremost that caters to what they believe are marketable tropes and categories.

And for the record, when an author is bringing up their own difficulties in the industry and you feel the need to dismiss them because "they're a content creator" or just because their experience didn't match yours (where you claim it's far easier than they're painting it out to be), then maybe interrogate why you feel the need to dismiss someone else's experience as entirely invalid.

Some truths about the publishing industry because I certainly got blindsided when going in. Now I'm so broken by this industry I struggle to encourage aspiring writers lmao

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🚨URGENT🚨

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My son Mohammed is in critical condition after being shot by Israeli drones. He has been taken to the operating ⛺️ and urgently needs treatment outside the Gaza Strip.

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We'll be doing a livestream interview!! Teaming up with Prince George's County Memorial Library System (PGCMLS), yours truly will be joining in on their "Lunch and Learn" youtube series- only for us it will be remixed to "Rise and Shine"! Get up early on March 10th at 7am EST with your breakfast munchines as we have a chill convo with PGCMLS about graphic novels and art! For me, that will be 6pm WIB so while y'all are having breakfast, I'll be eating a midnight/ dinner snack of sorts, heheh.

Scan the QR code for the link to the eventual livestream! Or you can click here. Bookmark that link and show up when the time comes…for the ritual. Ask us questions or drop a comment in the chat, we're here to have fun!

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I am canonizing John Constantine as Bisexual Again

yes we know a lot of Hellblazer fans are mad that Spurrier mislabeled John as pansexual and then he doubled down with respectability nonsense on twitter. But now we must move towards actionable steps to undo this error. Listen, I'm a published author and a comic book artist, and while I have little interest in working under DC/Vertigo- I do hold some authority in this literary world.

I won the Stonewall Award recently, which means I am the king of gay people literature and queer books for this year. Let's toss in that I'm GLAAD nominated too for good measure. My gay powers are strong, but they are temporary- until the next monarch is awarded the following year, so we must act quick.

I hereby decree, with my Stonewall bestowed powers, that John Constantine is bisexual. Let it be known that Spurrier's mislabeling was but a typo in the grander scale of the gay universe. What could be more punk, if you will, than to canonize John in this way that we have done today. Go forth, Hellblazer fans and spread this news far and wide for we have made history in this grand day.

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Hi! Not into Constantine, but A Goofy Movie doesn't get enough love, so high five for that! :-) But also wanted to let you know about an essay at DC for Black History Month on CW Supergirl's Martian Manhunter that you might like: < dc, com/blog/2025/02/11/finding-his-face-martian-manhunter-s-black-history > I think the author is Asian-American.

Thank you! A Goofy Movie deserves ALL THE LOVE meanwhile Constantine can rot (affectionate) so I agree.

OOOH OMG THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS! Here's the link for folks who want to read Finding His Face: Martian Manhunter's Black History. It's a good read! I can't stress how refreshing it is to read a Martian Manhunter article that isn't just a Screenrant powerscale rant lol. The article points out that Harewood isn't "the first time that a Black actor played J’onn J’onzz" and continues to mention Carl Lumbly's (bless him) voice acting as J'onn in JL (2001) and JLU (2004)- but I do think it's still important to credit Phil Morris, who played J'onn in Smallville in 2006!

Still, I especially love that it's spotlighting David Harewood's take on J'onn, because his is the most narratively substantial and informed. There's such personal love for the character that is very palpable in the show. It's the only Martian Manhunter adaptation to truly talk about J'onn's relationship to Black history and community, and including Lumbly as J'onn's father in season 3 as an immigrant dad was so perfect.

Plus I think J'onn's backstory on that show is very clever- tying him to impersonating Hank Henshaw, and then creating a fascinating narrative about "who is truly the monster, J'onn or Henshaw?". Reminds me of this really good essay tumblr user @/bi-hop wrote about whether aliens who take the form of Black people count as Black representation, and it has a pretty profound conclusion in my opinion.

I think more adaptations and reimaginings of J'onn should take Harewood's direction to heart. Because he really made sense of so much of J'onn's chosen form.

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🌈 LUNAR BOY WON THE STONEWALL AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LIT!! 🌈

A historic win!! The very first queer Indonesian graphic novel has won the oldest and most enduring queer book award! We've been so hyped over the news since yesterday that we could barely get any sleep! We're celebrating into Lunar New Year tomorrow, and will likely be heading over to the US to receive the award at the ALA conference in Philly later this year.

Our editor sent us flowers over the news!! I'm not extremely emotional about it at all and am in fact so chill and cool instead (<-pathetic lies).

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That anon about Ray Monde being the one to help pick John's iconic blue suit for him inspired me so much I had to make a comic about it

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‼️Helping me means helping 5 members of my family..‼️

🥶We're freezing🥶

Hello, I'm Wasim from Gaza, in Al-Mawasi specifically... My family and I were displaced from Rafah after hardship, bombing, displacement, and hunger.😭😔

Now we have been away from our city and our beautiful home for 9 months. We have lost our house that my father built stone by stone and he worked 24/7 to build this house. But the occupation destroyed it, and no house remained in my beautiful city remained intact.😭💔💔

We are now living in a tent or semi-tent, which does not protect us from the cold of winter or the rain. Our lives are very difficult.😔😭

Thanks to your donations, we have been able to buy food and flour, and now I am asking you for help to buy a tent that will protect us from the cold of winter. We do not know what it means to sleep because of the extreme cold.🥶

This is our tent made of fabric and some nylon, not closed on one side. We are freezing from the cold. Help us to buy a new tent. You are our last hope.😭🥶🥶🙏

I also want to ask for help for my mother, who is the most precious thing in my life. Without her, I am nothing...

She has a back cartilage disease and is in great pain. She needs physical therapy, medicine, and vitamins, and I am unable to provide them. Help my mother receive treatment.🙏🙏😭

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clois comic wip. in the subway with some guy instead of superman

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Absolute Wonder Woman #4 spoiler talk. I have at least one disappointment in it so far:

BOOOO WITH WONDIE GROWING HER ARM BACK BOOOOO

Lowkey I don't think Diana even needed to do that- it was just a means of introducing us to Etta and Gia Candy but. That was incredible amputee representation just immediately wasted. I've learned this from listening to amputees, but the "representation" they get in media is usually:

Character loses limb

Gets a prosthetic that works perfectly like their limb used to do (not the case in real life, prosthetic technology is not there yet)

or their limb gets healed and we completely forget about them being an amputee.

It's disappointing! A disabled Wonder Woman is so huge and now she's ~magically "fixed"~. I dunno if the spell is temporary so she'll lose her arm again. I don't want to say anything too definitive, but I can say I don't like this direction. The implication that as a disabled hero, she wouldn't have been able to defeat the monster is a pretty shitty message actually. I know in reality amputees (especially those without an arm) acknowledge that self defense is harder for them, but if anything that means your Wonder Woman should be all the more endearing! Because she has to be more clever than an able-bodied hero would be. Bleh.

It undercuts the sacrifice Diana made to lose her arm for Steve to be saved from Hell. Like it even narratively sucks.

Also Wondie casting a spell so that she, Steve, and the Candy siblings can communicate is WEAK. Use sign or write to each other you cowards! She makes a whole hope speech in the last issue (#3) about making the town deaf so everyone's going to have to rely on kindness to take care of each other only to be like "not me though I'll make a lil bubble of hearie people so I can communicate" please.

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what are your thoughts on 'a space for the unbound', if you've played it?

I have played it! Twice! Once as my first chill playthrough, and the second to be a completionist (which I highly recommend especially if you're Indonesian wkwk). I've kept my eye on A Space For The Unbound since it was in production all the way until release and suffice to say: I love this game! I listen to the soundtrack all the time (perfect scripting music) and I adore the pixel art style. I've never seen a game portray rural Indonesian life with all its fun nuances the way this game does.

In terms of story and writing! I think it could use a little ironing here and there to make the events smoother, tweak character motivations here and there (still dunno how to feel about [SPOILERS] a certain character crushing on an older character, and fantasizing about being his gf- and I don't care for the jerk guy who has a crush on a girl by being mean to her [SPOILERS END]) and have the dialogue be more specific and trimmed down (a part of me wants to say it's the result of translation to English, but even in Bahasa Indonesia it still reads clunky to me). The writing flaws weren't a game over for me though, and the climax more than delivers.

In my excitement I also read the webtoon that promoted the game, and my main issues with it was that the character of Raya was characterized completely differently than her game version. Also while I get what the story was trying to say...it was just so hetero asdfdfafl in a way that was grating to read. I was glad Raya wasn't like that in the game.

My little nitpicks are always going to boil down to "I wish there was more skin tone variation with all the characters". I think everyone save for two characters had light-to light peach skin tone, which is not reflective at all of what Indonesians look like. We come in every spectrum of skin tone, and a majority of us are brown and dark skinned. It's the inherit colorism of media, but I want us to be better than that y'know!

Also. Very self indulgent of me- but I think one of the story twists would've been stronger if the character was trans! I know that'd be hard to get away with but...if you know the character you know what I mean. Would've been neat. Overall though! I highly recommend this game! It's still very special to me and one of the few games that look like my life as I grew up.

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taps the Superman: American Alien sign

Today on Daily Planet Media; reporter Clark Kent continues his beloved "ranking my lookalikes" series with input from Lois Lane. Does he really look that much like Superman?

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WE ARE SO BACK!!!!!

So glad I can yell about this finally. Here’s my cover for the new Monster High Pride issue. I’m so glad I got to draw my two favorite dorks again 💚💜

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🚨 URGENT: New Account After Previous One Was Suspended 🚨

Hello, beloved community, I’m Noura Ayman. This is my new account after my previous one was suspended. Thank you for your continued support.

Noura, a medical lab specialist, fled Gaza for medical treatment just months before war trapped her family. Now stranded in Egypt with no income, a newborn baby, and her cancer-stricken father-in-law, she is desperately fighting to survive.

Meanwhile, her elderly father and young siblings are trapped in Gaza, facing relentless bombings and starvation. She urgently needs significant support to rescue them and rebuild her future by opening a medical lab and completing her master’s degree.

Her husband’s father, is also with her and in need of urgent medical care.

This is a life-or-death situation. Please donate and share widely. Your help can save lives. ❤️

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