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some potatoes

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Listen, if the writers of Wednesday can get their woefully mischaracterized fanfiction of the Addams Family greenlit by Netflix and win a bunch of awards, so can you.

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(image description: Geralt and Yennefer from The Witcher, black and white except for their eyes, both lying down with her arm draped across his chest.)

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breakfast + dinner

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https://twitter.com/Kaisen_Tobiuo

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Lovey will spend 10 minutes digging around his poop and get litter all over everything except his actual poop. Is it just him? Why is he digging so far away from his poop?

Hey I'd really appreciate if you could give me a follow over at instagram!

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The Hallowed Grove

For the boardgame expansion pack "Minos: Dawn of Faith" I was asked to imagine how religious ceremonies or rituals in ancient Minoan culture could have looked like. This is one of 4 illustrations I made for them on this topic. Client: Board & Dice

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One must imagine Sisyphus happy

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life goes wild and i used forgotten coping mechanism of mine - drawing random gay erotiсism

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Angela Bassett as Ramonda BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER Dir. Ryan Coogler

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A Storm of Swords - Arya XIII

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A Series of Unfortunate Events AU where the Baudelaire siblings (after however many tragedies you like) are taken in by the Addams family. This one sticks. Count Olaf is dead within two days of showing up.

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Ilya Glazunov (Russian, 1930-2017) - Metro (1958)

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The audio guide humbly speculates about who these people might have been: "She might have been a housewife or a factory worker or a musician..." The idea isn't subtle: this woman could be you. But to make her you, we have to deny that she was actually herself. These musings turn people into metaphors, and it slowly becomes clear to me that this is the goal. Despite doing absolutely everything right, this exhibition is not that different from Human Bodies, full of anonymous dead people pressed into service to teach us something.

At the end of the show, on-screen survivors talk in a loop about how people need to love one another. While listening to this, it occurs to me that I have never read survivor literature in Yiddish—the language spoken by 80 percent of victims—suggesting this idea. In Yiddish, speaking only to other Jews, survivors talk about their murdered families about their destroyed centuries-old communities, about Jewish national independence, about Jewish history, about self-defense, and on rare occasions, about vengeance. Love rarely comes up; why would it? But it comes up here, in this for-profit exhibition. Here it is the ultimate message, the final solution.

That the Holocaust drives home the importance of love is an idea, like the idea that Holocaust education prevents antisemitism, that seems entirely unobjectionable. It is entirely objectionable. The Holocaust didn't happen because of a lack of love. It happened because entire societies abdicated responsibility for their own problems, and instead blamed them on the people who represented—have always represented, since they first introduced the idea of commandedness to the world—the thing they were most afraid of: responsibility.

Then, as now, Jews were cast in the role of civilization's nagging mothers, loathed in life, and loved only once they are safely dead. In the years since I walked through Auschwitz at fifteen, I have become a nagging mother. And I find myself furious, being lectured by this exhibition about love—as if the murder of millions of people was actually a morality play, a bumper sticker, a metaphor. I do not want my children to be someone else's metaphor. (Of course, they already are.)

from "Blockbuster Dead Jews" in People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn, pp. 190–191

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By Crom! is my joke-a-panel autobiographical comic featuring life advice and spiritual guidance from Conan the Barbarian. It ran from January 2012 to May 2014, and is collected in two books, The Collected By Crom! and Full Colour Cromulence. You can read the archives on WealdComics.com, and grab the books in print and in PDF.

By Crom! will be tabling with Weald Comics at TCAF, VanCAF, TAAFI and possibly FanExpo Toronto!

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meow

(image description: T'Challa from Black Panther, with two Dora Milaje in the background.)