#Maustown

[maustown]

[wilwheaton]

I've suffered from depression for years but at the moment it's really severe. But then I see your stream of good news and it reminds me that good things DO happen even if they're *tiny* little things. So my good news is small but really lovely - after years of searching I *finally* found the bad and hilarious sci-fi movie I saw as a kid in 1985 (but never knew the name of it) - "Morons in Outer Space". And I'm gonna allow myself the 1½ hours of peace from the self-loathing. Thank you Wil.

I’m so sorry you’re hurting, but I’m relieved to know that you also know it’s Depression lying and being a dick. It’s really good to know that you are fighting the fight and that all the good news is helping. Please remember to reach out to your support network, because you don’t have to do this alone. 

[yeahiwasintheshit]

ha! thanks! i love cookie monster, but if im in a dumpster, wouldnt i be oscar? or, i think id prefer, the all knowing trash heap from fraggle rock... but tbh ill take any muppet, even scooter

[thebacklots]

Bonus panel to this comic.

[radscuttle]

i found myself on the side of tumblr with all the weird comics a few nights ago. i didn't expect a parody strip starring a homophobic minnie mouse clone to have such a good quote.

[kinocomix]

8-3-20

i think i’ve mentioned before how this blog is now a glorified diary, and i’m okay with that honestly. After 7 months of drawing non stop my arm has demanded some time off... so lesson learned (?)

in other news a cover folks! we have a cover!

a friend of mine  helped me out.

so maybe now tapas can lay off my ass about wanting a damn cover. being honest, tapas’s whole system feels a bit annoying to me, but they’re the best i can do short of hosting my own website which i can assure you from my previous blogging experiences are not my forte.

i think a lot about how -for lack of a less pretentious word- ephemeral things on the internet are. not like memes (imagine if i wrote a whole blog entry discussing how memes don’t last very long lol jeez)

more like... think of @maustown​ for a moment. they just... up and vanished because the platform wasn’t welcoming them anymore. setting aside my own misguided attempts at contacting them because let’s face it... there’s no way that’s their real name. at least that’s my assumption. but yeah they made great comics and now they’re gone. it feels like no one talks about them anymore, just like dan long.

i don’t know where i’m going with this. perhaps i’m overly attached to my inspirations, or maybe it’s the fear of vanishing myself. part of me wants the satisfaction of telling these artists how important their work was to me, and now that possibility is nonexistent. which is frustrating and quite frankly -scary.

but like... BLEH. ya know? recently that’s how it’s felt to me. bleh. i can’t really draw right now cause OW, so i’m stuck in the same mindset i was when i was doing my master’s degree.

i.e. why don’t you have a job? why aren’t you fighting a global pandemic, crumbling economy and the limited time you have left to accomplish anything in your life to accomplish something that’s not pathetic?

which like... i’m aware is unhealthy and fortunately i have the common sense to snap myself out of it, but still.

that shit ain’t fun.

i still really like this drawing. it feels warm. it’s the mindset i’d like to be in one day, and coincidentally... the one that inspires me to write. idk how to explain it, so that’s all you’re getting.

i’ve been working on some other projects while i’m on my nonocomic time. i’ve been writing the script for something (i love how i say that as if almost home isn’t going to take 6 years to finish) and i recently had the pleasure of working on a guest comic for Monsterhead!

i have yet to draw it, but i will as soon as my arm gets better. i’m exited :>

anyway... read my comic, follow me on twitter and see you in five years when i decide to post again.

later party people.

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