#but there should be more

[iwillfightgodandwin]

[foundorfollowed]

we should import japanese/korean food stall culture. how is it in boston my only choices are the sausage bulkie guy or the arepas guy. i should be able to go down an alley and pay 5$ for a grilled squid on a stick

[canvaswolfdoll]

i miss the days when webcomics weren't even indie, they were isolated.

graffiti on the digital walls, created and shared with no motive aside from a deep yearning to create and share.

an art limited only by your ability to produce a digital image and build a website (which, admittedly in the real old internet days was a high bar, but one thing at a time)

people made gag strips about video games and other hobbies

journal comics about the artist's day

sprite comics because it's easier to copy paste vintage art assets in ms paint than it was to learn to draw and figure out a scanner and for-profit image program

people created and shared and, yes, a lucky few could make a profit off ads and merch, but that's money that went to the creators pocket.

nowadays, webcomics either are sequestered to various social medias (reddit, instagram, twitter, the contemptable webtoon) where they fall under the curse of being content(tm) to mostly line the pockets of various corporate masters who smile and assure artists that they, too, can be influencers.

or, if the comic exists on the creators' own website, it exists primarily as a themed portfolio and, if it's successful, gets the artist a job and ends the webcomic because either the artist is busy as a story board artist or they no longer own the rights to the story.

now i'm trapped hoping for a deranged balancing act where a webcomic is popular enough to keep it going, but not so popular as to become ip.

it's a weird conveyor belt. when webcomic arose, print comics no longer felt like a place you could find the next bone or maus, but maybe such works might appear online.

now webcomics have also reached that point of market force, but i see no new source for hobbyist comics, sort of accosting youths on the street and mugging them of their sketchbooks to see their raw, unique artistic vision.

[hylianengineer]

how is it

that there are so many poems about friendship

and so few that ever say anything interesting

[w1lmuttart]

The lake town

[mayhemchicken-artblog]

in the hour or so it took me to draw this op turned reblogs off

EDIT: reblogs are STAYING OFF. op was right and correct and i have never regretted making a post as much as this one. if you want to reblog my art you can reblog something else from my blog. or commission me, lord knows i deserve financial compensation for the nightmare this post has put me through

[hansoeii]

butch wolverine, anyone?

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[anartificialsatellite]

The older I get the more I admire people who are earnestly, genuinely into whatever their thing is. I know it sounds like an annoying cliche but unless you're being cruel or hurtful there is really no need to be normal about things. The dude with the bad fake accent at the renaissance faire is having the time of his life. The people having photoshoots with their fashion dolls are loving it. The old lady with a yard unreasonably full of tacky ass lawn ornaments is having a blast, HOA be damned.

Don't waste your time being too cool to have fun, y'know?

[phayz]

my collection of "weird social practices that are too funny to be considered rude"

[iwillfightgodandwin]

[theriverbeyond]

packing for a trip is like ok i need 30 pairs of underwear. my entire medicine cabinet. T shirt?

[mythtakens]

“these characters should be mentally healthy before they get together 😌” ummm no I actually think we should smash their mental illnesses together like clumps of play-doh and see what colors it makes

[cork-run]

the names of certain mob-involved trans women have been changed

[iscariotapologist]

today in church one of the priests referred to trans people as "those who are growing into the gender they were called to be" and i'm kind of enjoying the idea of like....divinely ordained top surgery

[peacesmith]

love when senshi just kind of goes