I don’t care if it’s Retro-Saturday, this happened to me the day before yesterday and I absolutely had to make a comic about it. This one isn’t funny. I don’t think I’ve ever made a more serious or important comic in my life.
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Something I haven’t been explicitly open about on this site is the fact that I’m transgender. That is, I’m a woman whose gender was assigned as ‘male’ at birth.
It’s absolutely not anything I’m ashamed of, but it’s also not something I feel defines who I am, or, really, is anybody else’s business. But I do know that when I was still figuring out life, that I really could have used more ‘normal’ media talking about trans stuff. Not seedy fetish sites. Not weird Japanese cartoons (also highly fetishistic :p ). Not even trans forums (where there are tons of good people ready to help but where it still felt ‘taboo’ to my timid and confused self). It needs to be on neutral ground alongside other, non-trans related content.
So I think it’s important that I make that a part of what I do here. Also, the experience of being trans is just straight up a goldmine of comedic material! How could I not make webcomics about all the weird shit that happens to me on a daily basis? So, I’ll be devoting some of my webcomic postings now and then to my ongoing series, entirely based on my life, called “Life of Bria“! (how could I not call it that?)
Every Saturday I’m putting up an example of my old work. Old work is so interesting because you get a vision of the person you used to be, and a sneak peak and the developing seeds of the person you will become. I’m not ashamed one bit of these old comics of mine. They’re crude on nearly every level. But you can tell reading them that I had a lot of fun making them, so hopefully that transfers over to the reader having fun in turn!
This week’s work is my comic, “Wu-Tang Cornfist”. It was the very first comic I made in art school. My teachers hated it. But clearly, that didn’t stop me!
More concept art for my next graphic novel coming hot on the heels of Time Tourists. If dinosaurs are going to have feathers now, they might as well be a little more fabulous. I say give them lion’s manes and leopard print!
I’m so excited to not only have finally finished the cover page and chapter divider designs for my first major graphic novel, “Time Tourists“, but to also have put it all together into something approaching a final draft! It’s almost ready for print! I’ll be keeping this new version up on the site for a little while longer, but you should read it now while you still have a chance! Because once this baby goes to print, the freebies are coming down and that book will be up for sale!
Is there any more loathed character in all of fiction?
A bit more concept art for my next graphic novel project. I love dinosaurs so much, it’s a shame this next project will mostly involve them being horribly killed 😦
I’m making all my old comics I made in school (and, eventually, as a kid!) freely available to the public. You’ll find them in the ‘Graphic Novels’ section of the page. I’ll be starting with my personal favorite of these oldies “Grasshopper Vs. Ants”.
And to James Cameron.
