My poor cat Raven has tooth resorption lesions causing her teeth to rot & fall out, she’s in a lot of pain 😢 she’ll need expensive surgery soon to extract the affected teeth. I’m so anxious and gutted. May fundraise later for this, but til then…maybe toss a tip our way? 🙏 ko-fi.com/johannamation
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As someone with a chronically mispronounced name, lists like this should be mandatory for every awards show celebrating comic creators or book authors. Awards are a HUGE moment in a creator’s life; one that gets undercut and disrespected by mispronouncing their name at the podium.
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Also, let's get pedantic af here: gen-ai has not done jack shit to cure cancer. Every cancer advancement in the past 5-10 years has been because of Machine Learning, and ML is a good thing, because it doesn't boil lakes, nor steal from anyone, and it (eventually) is WAY more accurate than gen-ai.
Hillary MonahanNobody wants predictive data models to stop working for the people in medicine. Or translating ancient Pompeii texts. Or the other ways we were already using it. We want it to stop replacing workers, killing the environment, and stealing from artists. Hope that clarifies.
Update on this situation from our incredible PD Jake who is more qualified to speak on this than I. This is the last time I will be posting about this- thanks everyone for supporting our artists.
Kat TsaiI have no clue why it was on that slide or who put it there, and every member of the crew I worked with is 100% against AI. Every aspect of the animation is handcrafted by real artists and I hope that people don’t use this slide as a reason to detract from how much love and labor went into the film.
The eBook version of my 24 page mushroom foraging zine, "Can I Eat This?" is now up in my shop! Hopefully it adds a little more context to my incessant mushroomposting If you've ever wondered how to gain the confidence to forage for yourself, I made this for you :) kendrap.com/shop/canieatthis
I also have to give myself grace here. THE GHOSTKEEPER is the only graphic novel/long-form comic I’ve ever created start to finish. The writing of comics fills me with a great deal of anxiety, partly due to that lack of practice. It makes the brainstorming part of my brain preemptively shut down
Johanna T 👻 🧙Being a comic creator with anxiety is fun bc sometimes I’ll finish making a comic and instead of celebrating the achievement like a normal person, I stare at the wall thinking “that was it: the last story idea I will ever have. I’ll never be able to come up with another idea for a comic again”
This is hella real. Especially when talking about not celebrating achievements. For some reason my brain is convinced if I don't do the next thing RIGHT NOW I'll never find work again ever. Anxiety is a bitch, y'all
Johanna T 👻 🧙Being a comic creator with anxiety is fun bc sometimes I’ll finish making a comic and instead of celebrating the achievement like a normal person, I stare at the wall thinking “that was it: the last story idea I will ever have. I’ll never be able to come up with another idea for a comic again”
This has been helpful for me with art burnout in general: just grabbing a pen and noodling something in a physical sketchbook, w no expectation of greatness or quality or stakes, just vibes. (I do all my finished art digitally so it can be hard to sketch digitally w/out pressure to make it good)
Johanna T 👻 🧙Something that’s helped me a lot lately is keeping a travel sketchbook. It functions like a journal of places I’ve been, but lower stakes and more artsy and fun! I burned myself out on sketchbooking after college (we had to fill ~2 sketchbooks per semester), so this has been very healing.
I went on a library spree recently and added a TON of new comics to my Disability Pride Month booklist! Give them a read and support the creators of these wonderful stories ⭐ bookshop.org/lists/graphi...
Another booklist of comics for July which is Disability Pride Month!! 🦼 ♿️ 🌟 bookshop.org/lists/graphi...