solilo guy @dirk@computerfairi.es
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Berlin-based comic artist (he/him, white) trapped in a tech bubble.
Tooting for help in 🇬🇧 / 🇩🇪 about comics, infosec, queerness, and Elves.
Joined Apr 2017
Manga legend Mizuki Shigeru’s “The Power of Sleep”, quoted by Heidi McDonald in her piece on the surge of the #ComicsBrokeMe hashtag.
The manga depicts an argument between Mizuki and Tezuka about the importance of rest.
Tezuka never slept and died at age 60 of stomach cancer.
His last words were “I’m begging you, let me work!”
Mizuki, who lost an arm in WWII, lived to be 93.
[Read from right to left.]
Lewd / disturbing / vulnerable = Helmut Berger
RIP Dorian Gray 🌹🥀
And once you're there, visit me and my students at booth number 49 - "Werkstatt für Comics".
They've worked so hard for months to put together "Memory Palace", a 108-page anthology about unforgettable places and inner worlds.
Come say hi and get yourself a signed copy!
Come and join us this weekend in #Berlin for the #ComicInvasion festival 2023! ✏️🌈
@clairikine, @carlito and the others have put together an amazing program, with exhibitions, readings, kids' workshops and over 90 exhibitors.
As always "für alle und für umme" – for everyone and for free!
Six years on Mastodon this month, and not once have I told you about this neighbor's daily visitations, bargaining lap time for the power of beans. 
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Happy #caturday to you, and happy #fediversary to me! 🎉
2011 I was in the middle of a weekly published #comics correspondence with a Japanese #mangaka, Matsuoka Waka, when the #Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster shocked the world.
Despite all the chaos, we decided to keep our exchange going. It was remarkable to watch Matsuoka-san’s cute manga characters pack their emergency backpacks to flee from radiation.
I am relieved beyond words that this weekend, the last German nuclear power plant went off the grid.
This I drew days after the catastrophe:
Und auf Deutsch, wer möchte, nochmal zum Hören:
Ilse Aichingers „Spiegelgeschichte“ (1949) – Formexperiment und emotionaler gut punch in einem.
CW: #Abtreibung
(Quelle: Vera Teichmann, DLF Kultur)
Finally found an English version of “Mirror Story”, a powerful and haunting short story about the consequences of #abortion bans by Austrian poet Ilse Aichinger.
Remarkably, time is completely reversed here: A woman raises from her deathbed, revisits her fatal illegal abortion, grows estranged from her boyfriend, turns into a child again and eventually gets born.
This should be required reading in every state with an #AbortionPillBan.
Beautiful example of how “avant-garde” and “mainstream” comics constantly cross-pollinate:
#Marvel’s #Wiccan walking over his own comic’s pages just as Julius Corentin Aquefaques did 20 years before.
Left: From “Le Processus” by Marc-Antoine Mathieu (1993)
Right: From “Young Avengers” by @kierongillen and Jamie McKelvie (2013)
#comics #comic #GraphicNovels #comix #BD #ComicBooks #comicart #bookstodon
Lewd
Omg put this on my grave stone
[from a Guardian article about writer & poet Maggie Nelson]
Adding screen-tones makes all the difference.
It's my digital fairy dust 🧚♂️✨
racism in illustrations
There's a politics of lines in #comics and illustration.
Take this one from "Queer – A Graphic History", which accompanies a text on racial stereotypes.
It troubles me that the least amount of lines is used on the central white guy. He is drawn so much more abstract than anyone else!
Willingly or not, that presents him as the default human being, upon which you have to add a bunch of extra lines to create cliché Black or Asian eyes, lips or hair.
Line counts matter!
Got lots of setting up to do now with the release of #elementaryOS 7.
The whole family uses it, including our kids - it's so great to have a focused, polished Linux distro for them to do their homework, watch their streams and invite us parents to their Stardew Valley farm every now and then.
Thanks @danirabbit and everyone involved!
Berlin-based comic artist (he/him, white) trapped in a tech bubble.
Tooting for help in 🇬🇧 / 🇩🇪 about comics, infosec, queerness, and Elves.
Joined Apr 2017
