#Marie enger

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Harry and Kim Disco Commish.

Building my own little zine over here and it feels so good. Keep ‘em comin.

I’m only on day 3, no spoilers pls.

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The Addams Family

Art by Marie Enger

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Those were the days! This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk to Chuck Kranz and Adam Rose about their forthcoming RPG, Teenage Odyssey. Set in a small town in the early '90s, the game casts players as teens navigating humdrum lives that are periodically thrown into chaos by bizarre supernatural events. Featuring art by Marie Enger and a light and flexible system based on Chris McDowall's Into the Odd, the game is on Kickstarter RIGHT NOW! 

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Where Black Stars Rise, Nadia Shammas & Marie Enger

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Out this week: Where Black Stars Rise (Tor Nightfire, $19.99):

This new graphic novel by Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger is about a newly licensed therapist who ends up being dragged into another dimension while treating a patient’s night terrors. 

See what other comics and graphic novels are arriving in comic shops this week.

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Marie Enger.

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'Where Black Stars Rise'

-Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger

So my tutor recommended a bunch of comics to read recently to help me with getting a bit more expressive in preperation for EgoVerse, and good god 'Where Black Stars Rise' was a hell of a start.

This Graphic Novel tackles mental health in a way that is incredibly expressive and representative in a fantastic way, as well as having a lot of Lebanese and Palestinian rep, as well as LGBTQ+ and Therapy rep which is always sick! I'll have my notes under the 'Read More' section!

The way light is shown in this comic is gorgeous and translates well into once the King of Carcosa reveals himself as a being made of light.

Linking to that the colours and actual art style of this comic is sort of like if an abstract painting and digital cartoon had a child in Graphic Novel format. It's VERY expressive and bold, which is something I want from my own comics, so I'll be nabbing a few ideas from them, lol!

I love the consistent theme of either ending a scene by a shot of looking through a window, OR by transitioning through the opening of a door - in which light always peeks out from behind the door!

I also noticed a lot of Evil Eye representation (Amal wears an Evil Eye bracelet, the Eye turns up on their doorknob, ect) I'm unsure if this is specifically a Palestinian or Lebanese thing (Amal is Lebanese but the writer is Palestinian), however I know that historically wearing the Evil Eye is supposed to A; protect against the Evil Eye being used against you, and B; ward of negativity, evil, and bad luck, so the fact that Amal has to open the door protected by the Evil Eye to go and search for Yasmin - her patient - is a really cool touch!

Really cool panels! I'm a bit of a 'Cool Shot Ho' so the majority of any cool shots in comics will get me hyped, however the panel where Yasmin explains her nightmares for the first time, and the one where the crow-thing is talking about how 'I dreamt that all my teeth fell out' is really striking. The comic in of itself has a really striking style and way of handling panels (I will go on about this until I am dead) and I love it!

Tackles Mental health in a really representative way. Now, I don't have Schizophrenia (Yasmin has Schizophrenia in the comic) but I DO have severe anxiety and constantly overthink every choice I make. The moment when Amal falls apart as Carcosa takes her apart using her mental health, I could relate to so badly it was incredible. The constant fear of everyone you love and care about judging you so severely that you're petrified of any sort of perceived failure or disappointment from other people is something I definitely relate to, and I think the book handles it really well. Amal isn't immediately cured just because she defeated the King of Carcosa. She used techniques learnt from being a therapist to coach herself through it and then took measures afterwards to get better (Going home to Lebanon to see her family, seeing a therapist, and taking a break)

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(vía 'Under Kingdom': Fresh-Looking Fantasy Adventures)

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Preview: Under Kingdom

Under Kingdom preview. After the sudden disappearance of his mom, high school freshman Shay is thrust into a secret world of monsters that exists underneath his small West-Virginian town of Humble Valley #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

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FUCK DOES CUNO CARE?!

Cuno Commish.

Way late to the Disco Elysium game, so don’t spoil it for me. 

But do commission me to draw Disco stuff ‘cause I...love it. 

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Movie #80 of 2023: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

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Finally playing Dredge-- forget which itch.io bundle I got it in, but it's a Carta game/solo ttrpg about sailing alone on the sea with little memory of your past, casting your net for treasure and fleeing the Deep Hunter.

So, a good NYE game.

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🍉 Queer Palestinian Books 🍉

🇵🇸 The algorithm is going to keep silencing my posts, but they're not going to silence me. I grew up with little to no books that made me feel seen as a queer/bisexual Palestinian Arab American. Today, it's still not easy enough to find those books online, even though we have thousands of lists, posts, and directories to guide us. To make your search a little easier, here are a few queer Palestinian books to add to your TBR. Please help me spread this by reblogging. Consider adding these to your least for Read Palestine Week (click for resources)! 💜

🍉 The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher 🇵🇸 A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar 🍉 Hazardous Spirits by Anbara Salam 🇵🇸 To All the Yellow Flowers by Raya Tuffaha 🍉 You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat 🇵🇸 The Specimen's Apology by George Abraham 🍉 Birthright by George Abraham 🇵🇸 Nayra and the Djinn by Iasmin Omar Ata 🍉 Where Black Stars Rise by Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger 🇵🇸 The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan 🍉 Guapa by Saleem Haddad 🇵🇸 From Whole Cloth: An Asexual Romance by Sonia Sulaiman

🍉 The Philistine by Leila Marshy 🇵🇸 Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar 🍉 Shell Houses by Rasha Abdulhadi 🇵🇸 Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan 🍉 Belladonna by Anbara Salam 🇵🇸 Confetti Realms by Nadia Shammas, Karnessa, Hackto Oshiro 🍉 Blood Orange by Yaffa As 🇵🇸 The ordeal of being known by Malia Rose 🍉 Decolonial Queering in Palestine by Walaa Alqaisiya 🇵🇸 Are You This? Or Are You This?: A Story of Identity and Worth by Madian Al Jazerah, Ellen Georgiou 🍉 This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers 🇵🇸 My Mama's Magic by Amina Awad

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