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Nanoka is very cute 🎀💮🌸

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Justin Biebers Muse – an interview with Gina Wynbrandt

Gina Wynbrandt is a great comic artist from Chicago with one of the funniest Twitter accounts (follow her!! @wynbr) on this planet. Ginas book „Someone Please Have Sex With Me“ came out in 2016 from 2dcloud. It’s a collection of her mini comics about horny girls desperately trying to get laid, how to hunt men down and a sexual encounter with a pack of cats. 

It is exactly what the medium comics was waiting for.  Finally the lord has heard our prayers and we are so happy to announce that Gina will be at The Millionaires Club 2017!

Gina is going to read live from her book SPHSWM at Conne Island, March 22nd, 7pm (Don’t miss it! Gina is an incredible performer as well!) She is also showing her work at Hopfe (Kolonnadenstrasse), March 24th-26th, Opening reception: March 24th, 7pm She will be around during The Millionaires Club. Talk to her, buy SPHSWM and get it signed with "Let me know if you want to have sex with me“. May your dreams come true! 

Do you have to deal with a lot of creeps online and IRL since your book is out? Frankly, I don't have enough creeps in my life. SPHSWM was written as an earnest plea that few have taken seriously. I've received a couple emails of interest, but not nearly enough. I will sign books with "Let me know if you want to have sex with me" to really drive the point home. A couple guys approach me in person. One was a guy at last year's Small Press Expo who told me I was more attractive than most BBW escorts on Backpage and he'd have to check with his wife, but she would probably let him fuck me. Later I found out he was really into Ayn Rand through his Twitter. Every instance is a disaster. Hopefully my visit to Leipzig will change my luck.

Your comics aren’t straight up diary comics even if the main character always looks like a version of you. When does abstraction and fiction kick in in your drawing/ writing? My comics are fictional stories that star a real person (me). The scenarios are usually fictional, but I write as I imagine I'd react. I like writing about myself, but slice-of-life autobio comics can be fucking boring. I'd rather write a fantasy comic about me riding on a motorcycle with Justin Bieber than a true to life comic about me in my apartment, binge eating for eight hours with intermittent masturbating.

How do you draw all these Ginas so well? I take many, many embarrassing photos of myself. And then I copy those photos.

I keep thinking about the tweet about your mom crying when you mentioned this tinder dude who spit in your mouth in that interview with Paste Magazine. How is your family dealing with the honesty in your work and online? And how are you dealing with their reactions? That comment did upset my mom. She doesn't want to know how pathetic or wretched I can be in real life. But she is super supportive of my comics and everything I do. We have a similar sense of humor, and she thinks my work is really funny. On the other hand, my dad is much more conservative. He's happy for my book's success, but he's made it clear that he does not want to read it. He is always suggesting I write a nice comic about my little sister's imaginary friends, Mr. Ginger Ale and Louis, and their adventures.

How long did it take you to draw SPHSWM? I started writing One Less Lonely Girl in September 2011, and I finished drawing Manhunt June 2015. Basically one minicomic per year. I draw very s l o w l y and dislike working hard.

How did you and your publisher 2dcloud get in touch? Raighne added me on Facebook and ask if I would want to be published by 2dcloud. He said that he saw a video of me reading Someone Please Have Sex With Me at Brain Frame (a live comics event that happened in Chicago for three years). I love working with 2dcloud and can't wait to do more stuff with them in the future.

Comics lucked out on you so much! You entered the stage with a full force active social media accounts, a great ability to perform your work and something to say! the first 2 things used to be very rare among comic artists who are rather thought of as shy and pail loners. And it is even rarer among female creators. How come you chose comics of all mediums??? I like making people laugh, but I'm too scared to be an actor or comedian.

Your work also feels like it’s reflecting the times we live in very well. The most famous and richest popstars Justin Bieber & Kim Kardashian are reoccuring heroes in  ‚Someone Please Have Sex With Me‘. Are you sometimes scared that your comics might not age well? Does that even concern you at all? Oh yeah, certainly some of my comics will age badly. And all the pop culture stuff is a turnoff for foreign publishers. I don't care. I deeply, truly loved Justin Bieber (and still do) and wanted to express it, purely for myself. In my wildest fantasies, it will one day fall into his lap, and he'll be charmed by me and send a Learjet to retrieve me so we can finally fuck.

What do you wish for teenage girls in the future? You don't have to laugh at a boy's jokes if he's not funny.

What do you do with unsolicited dick pics (asking for a friend)? I always respond positively to the sender, thanking him. Sometimes I will further engage and try to get him to eat his own cum.

Which (Comic)Artists do you cherish? I loved reading Rumiko Takahashi's books in grade school. Ivan Brunetti was the first alternative cartoonist I got into, around 8th or 9th grade. I started reading Chester Brown and Phoebe Gloeckner when I started making my own comics in college.

Are you working on a new book? Please say yes! I think I will self-publish a mini or two before I work on another book.

Thank you so much, Gina! See you in march!! more of Ginas work: http://www.ginawynbrandt.com https://www.instagram.com/wynbr/?hl=de

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Bookshelf Briefs 11/7/17

Cosplay Animal, Vol. 2 | By Watari Sakou | Kodansha Comics – I think I will continue to enjoy Cosplay Animal as long as the heroine remains ludicrous and the tone remains fun, both things that I can tick off with this second volume. Yes, there’s a gay guy who makes out with his employees that’s sort of a bad stereotype, but he barely stands out here next to Rika, who is dealing with not having enough stamina during sex, trying to get some with her boyfriend while being forced to work at a hot spring (she broke a vase), and, in the story that edges between the most serious and also the most ridiculous (I called “no way” a few times), trying to student-teach at Hajime’s school. Not for those easily offended, but if you like pure trash, you’ll love Cosplay Animal. – Sean Gaffney

Dreamin’ Sun, Vol. 4 | By Ichigo Takano | Seven Seas – I have resolved myself to the fact that the main romance in this series is probably going to be between Shimana and the landlord, who’s getting more tsundere by the volume. This is not good news for Zen, who always looked like the sort of overeager guy who’s destined to be romantic runner-up, but I’m not sure he expected it this soon. We wrap up the boxing plotline here and start to get into Fujiwara’s past and present, including the fact that he’s a lawyer because his family wants him to be, but not particularly happy about it. Since the point of this series seems to be “don’t throw away your dreams and accept a bad reality,” I expect that to change, especially with Shimana’s basic shininess working against it. I’m still not over the moon about this series, but it’s always a solid read. – Sean Gaffney

Idol Dreams, Vol. 4 | By Arina Tanemura | VIZ Media – When we left off, 31-year-old Chikage Deguchi had decided to date a teenager (in the guise of her 15-year-old self) whom she didn’t love in order to learn about relationships. And, judging from her reaction, she hadn’t even considered telling him the truth about herself until her friend brought it up. Compounding this folly, when she realizes that he’s exhausting himself trying to impress her (he’s in a boy band, naturally) she contrives to dramatically break his heart. Way to screw with a poor kid’s head!! Are we supposed to root for this freakin’ clueless dingbat?! I don’t know why I even keep reading this, honestly. Perhaps it’s time to officially call it quits. – Michelle Smith

RIN-NE, Vol. 25 | By Rumiko Takahashi | VIZ Media – As per usual, nothing changes in this volume of RIN-NE. It briefly looks as though Rinne might actually have a chance at obtaining a gold shinigami license after defeating his dad but.. nope. The rest of the stories are the standard episodic fare about ghosts who need to pass on or Sabato’s hijinks. I did find it odd that there were two stories in this volume that were very similar, both involving a bespectacled spirit who was about to declare his love in a roundabout way, then discovered the girl he loved was dating a coworker/classmate, and died while rushing to prevent the message from being seen. Sakura makes a remark that suggests this might have been intentional, but it’s not at all clear. That would be a whole other level of repetitiveness for this series! – Michelle Smith

Scum’s Wish, Vol. 5 | By Mengo Yokoyari | Yen Press – Cosplay Animal was gloriously fun trash. Scum’s Wish is also trash, but it’s not nearly as fun, as you continue to watch young people who are dealing with out-of-control hormones make the wrong decisions and then regret it. Moka’s date is pretty much exactly what she wanted, and yet you wince as you turn each page, as her pain and despair rip out at you (even though she’s smiling and keeping up a fairy-tale inner monologue). As for Hanabi, she finds an older guy who seems to be into her, but she’s not ready to sleep with him, and that’s exactly what he wants. The book ends with her alone, realizing she has no real friends. Two more volumes of this may be all I can take, but it’s very well written. – Sean Gaffney

Toppu GP, Vol. 2 | By Kosuke Fujishima | Kodansha Comics – It’s hard to even scrape up enough words for a brief, honestly, given that this volume is 180 pages of “motocross is cool.” But really, Fujishima is a master at what he does by now, and there’s no denying it—when you see these races, you DO think it’s really cool. Toppu suffers a loss here, and his frustration also is conveyed very well on the page —the winner is smug without being dislikable, and I like their rivalry. We also get a girl his own age who clearly likes him, and is not happy with the gorgeous, older and perfect Myne, who (at this point) can do no wrong, and has still not been killed off to advance the plot, though I wouldn’t count that out. Do you like bikes? Read this. – Sean Gaffney

By: Michelle Smith