I’m super-duper excited to announce next week’s guest for the VERY FIRST episode of my new RADIO SHOW, Live With Bria. Joining me on the show’s debut will be the lovely advocate, writer, computer programer, veteran, and cosplayer, Carla Lewis!

Tune in on SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH @ 6:00 PM EST on https://strangelabel.com to listen LIVE!

As I gear up for my own radio show, which airs September 25th on https://strangelabel.com at 6:00 PM EST, I’m delighted to find that my most recent radio appearance on CHLY’s People First Radio has been posted online!

You can listen to it here.

It was a delightful experience, not the least because CHLY is located in my childhood stomping grounds of Nanaimo.  It gives you a real sense of having ‘made it’ if you get some recognition from your hometown, y’know? Hopefully I’ll get a chance to actually go back and visit there before too long…

Hey kids! Did you know I have a radio show now? Well, I do! Every Sunday at 6:00 PM EST (3:00 PM PST) I’ll be interviewing artists, writers, and activists, some trans, some not so trans, about every topic under the sun!

First show airs September 25th! Listen LIVE at strangelabel.com!

I had been saying I’d do it for weeks, and now I’ve finally got around to it. Today’s comic is a very special exclusive one, just for those who have been kind enough to financially support the site this month, whether through monthly donations at Patreon, direct donations via Paypal, or hiring me to do art commissions, custom cards, true-self portraits, or voice feminization lessons. All these things go a long way in keeping the site up, and my spirits high.

So, THANK YOU so much to everybody who’s helped out, you know who you are, and I’ll be sending you the comic shortly. And if you’d like to get in on this, or you just want to help out, lend your support now and I’ll send you the comic as well. Even if it’s just $1.00, it means a lot to me that you’re willing to give at all. I will also be doing this every month, so there will always be incentive for people to donate.

And, of course, I know not everybody is in a position to be spending money on comics. So it really means so much to me that you wonderful people are reading, sharing, and ‘liking’ my work. All of that’s supporting me, too.

Thank you all so much! (a new comic comes out Monday)

xxxooxx – Bria

Well, the wonderful Charlie McNabb over at the LGBTQ blog, Beyond Hanky Code, just wrote a really nice review of my comics! I’m just so thankful that people read my work, but I’m even more thankful that somebody would take the time to write a review of it.

Feel free to read the review, and to check out the rest of the blog, which deals with a wide range of mostly LGBTQ-related topics. I’ll definitely be following this blog from now on.

– Bria

I’m going to be sticking to this comics schedule of Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. So that means there’s a new comic up today!

I have also recently set up a shop on Etsy. There’s not a whole lot on there just yet, and everything that is on there is also available on the site here. But it’s good to get everything consolidated into one easy shopping destination! Right now there’s prints for sale of my recent ‘animals wearing clothes’ drawings, copies of my graphic novels, and also options for ordering custom art commissions.

But the real news of the day is that I received confirmation yesterday that a publisher in the UK wants me to do a trans themed graphic novel for them!!! This will be an original story, completely unconnected to my webcomics.

I’m very excited, but also very nervous. I know from experience that writing a graphic novel is a huge undertaking. And as of now, I still don’t know if my publisher is able to give me an advance payment to live on while I produce this book. As I mention pretty frequently, I work a full-time job in addition to doing these comics. Add writing a graphic novel on top of that and… there’s just not enough hours in the day.

Right now I have some truly wonderful people giving me support on Patreon, and I couldn’t be more grateful for that. What I’m hoping is that, should I not get an advance to do this book, enough people will be able to step up and support me further so that I’m able to at least reduce the hours I work and have enough time to do all this other, much more important stuff.

I should mention that all Patreon supporters of $25.00 or more per month are entitled to a copy of every single book I put out. That includes this one. So if you are able to help support me through this process, in addition to helping keep the site going and knowing you helped a potentially important new piece of art become available to the community, you WILL get something tangible out of the deal.

Help keep Life of Bria going and support trans voices in media!

Also, at the end of every month, I will be releasing a special ‘thank you’ comic to those who have supported the site, either through Patreon, PayPal, or ordering art commissions, custom cards, true-self portraits, or who have had voice lessons with me. If you have had done any of these things in the past month, you will have access to the bonus material as my way of saying ‘thank you’ for going the extra mile in helping support the site.

And, as always, thank you from the very bottom of my heart for reading! I never dreamed I would make it this far drawing cartoons on the internet.

Love,

 

Bria

Screw the schedule! Everybody’s so pissed about that transploitation movie, (Re)Assignment, that I just couldn’t sit on this comic until Monday. It’s clearly just the screen-writer’s teenaged forced-femme jerk-off fantasy come to the big screen, but what could have been done to make it… not awful? Well, this bonus comic attempts to address that. What do you think? Could that movie have been salvageable?

 

Usually Fridays are when my dinosaur comic, ‘No Other‘, updates. But hardly anybody reads it in comparison to my regular webcomics. So I may just put it on the back burner for
the next while.

In the meantime, that means more webcomics! There’s one up today  in place of the usual dino comic, and likely I will be sticking to the usual schedule of Monday, Thursday, Friday. Though I may add Wednesday into the mix as well.

How do you feel about this? Would you rather I keep going on ‘No Other’? If I get enough interest, then I will. Otherwise, it’s gonna be webcomics as far as the eye can see!

Once again, this all comes down to money. Right now, I basically live a skeleton of a life. All I do is work, and I still barely make ends meet. I have no leisure time and no money to spend on non-essentials. I also barely eat and I sleep five hours a night. Such is to be expected when you’re an artist. But that means any art I do that isn’t proving to be too popular is essentially a luxury I cannot afford.

But the fact that people come here and read my comics and send me messages about how they affect them, it makes it all worth while.

Thank you so very much for reading. I mean it.

– Bria

There’s a new comic up today. I’ve been trying to stick to a regular schedule, but in the wake of all the ridiculous statements and articles I’ve seen coming up in my newsfeed, I just didn’t feel like sitting on this one another day. There will, of course, be another comic on Thursday.

How do you feel about that? Would you like three comics a week instead of two? Let me know, and if there’s a lot of interest, I’ll make it happen (lifeofbria at gmaildotcom).

An even better way to make it happen is to support the site directly, either via Paypal or Patreon. You can also support me by commissioning me to make art for you.

I know I ask this of people a lot, and I know that a lot of us trans folks have troubles of our own and don’t have a lot of money, so any and all support is beyond appreciated. Right now, like most artists, my time is divided between this and my minimum wage ‘normal’ job. That takes up almost literally all of my time. I don’t get days off, I don’t get free time, I have even given up exercising. All I do is work. And I’m happy to do that – I love making art and I love doing something that I feel is making a difference, and so that’s what I want to be doing. And if I get enough support from people, I would quit my day job and do this FULL-time.

So if you would like to find yourself living in a world with more pro-trans art and comics, maybe consider spending some of your entertainment budget this way. I promise I’ll make it worth your while!

– Bria

 

Monday’s comic is a day early. Why? Because today, August 14th

, is my brother’s birthday. And I guess it’s become a bit of a tradition (two whole years!) that I draw him a Tintin themed birthday comic. You can see last year’s here. It’s the least I can do for him.

Close to a year and a half ago, when I had first returned to this country from Thailand, and was just starting out in my transition, my brother, without hesitation and without being asked, took me into his home and let me sleep on his bed, while he took a mattress on the floor. He allowed me to live there for some months without paying rent, and allows me to live with him still (I pay rent now) despite my messy artist’s lifestyle and my frequent dysphoria freak-outs and bouts of depression.

He’s been supportive of me right from the beginning of the process of transitioning, and growing up, he was (and still is) my hero and inspiration. His dedication to his music is nothing short of awe inspiring, and a good portion of what keeps me working so hard on my art is knowing that every single day he’s spending every single spare moment he has practicing on his guitar. He actually has many music projects on the go, including playing in the killer progressive metal band, Opus Arise. They actually recently recorded their first not long ago, and you can find it here.

He also has an adorable little dog, with whom he has a wonderful, loving relationship. That and he always used to wear a Tintin and the Black Island t-shirt just made it the obvious choice that I make him a Tintin birthday present.

So happy birthday, bro! Here’s to another year getting to witness your greatness!