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picking characters for art fight #comic #autobio

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Full transcript: https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/loveisnotenough
#Bisexual #Autobio #Comic

Erika puts her hands on her younger self’s shoulders. “Feel your feelings dude,” she says. “Feel the fuck out of them.” Young Erika sniffles and looks back at her with red and teary eyes. Erika continues, “And in time you’re going to realize that they’re mostly coming from your own deepest insecurities and fears that you’ve always had, long before you even met her.” Erika gestures at a series of tarry, black thoughts that ooze out of a gaping hole in Young Erika’s chest, which say things like “I’m alone”, “I’m unloveable”, “I deserve to be rejected and abandoned”, “I’m bad”, and “I hate myself”. Erika helps push the tarry thoughts back into the hole in her younger self’s chest. “Get therapy, dude,” she says. “Learn how to fill your heart with your own tools, so you’re not just sucking somebody else dry to fill your own emptiness.” Young Erika turns away to clutch her chest defensively. “What, so I can’t be in a relationship until I’m a perfect person?” Erika backs off and holds up her hands a little. “Of course not!” she says. “The love and support of others can help you grow. But you gotta be functional enough on your own that you’re not just taking from your partner, you’re giving them something back, too.”

Their raft comes to rest on a sandy shore and Erika helps her past self climb out. “Listen,” Erika says. “I’m gettin’ close to 40 years old and I’m still working on (struggling with) all of this stuff. It’s hard. What I do know is that it is a gift to love anyone for any amount of time, no matter how long it lasts or what note it ends on.” Erika puts her hands over her heart. “When relationships end, whether it’s with a lover or a friend or a family member, learn the lessons you need to take away from the experience and treasure the good memories as you move forward in your life. You may be incompatible now, but at one point you shared something special and that is a gift to keep.” Young Erika notices Erika’s wedding ring glinting off her ring finger as she says this. The two start making their way up the beach they landed at. After a little while, Young Erika asks, “...Hey. So. That wedding ring on your finger… What kind of girl do we wind up marrying?” Erika says, “Ah. Right. I’ll be happy to tell you all about that if you’ll just follow me into The Bouncy House of Sexuality…” as she leads her younger self over to a giant inflatable bounce house a short distance away. Brought to you by our awesome patrons at Patreon.com/OhJoySexToy.

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Love is fun! Love is powerful. Love is... not enough. A relationship requires more than love alone to be sustainable in the longterm. Middle Age Erika Moen clears up some of her misconceptions about love with freshly-dumped 20-Year-Old Erika Moen in this comic from the archive.

Full transcript: https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/loveisnotenough
#Bisexual #Autobio #Comic

The comic starts with a younger Erika and her first girlfriend soaring through the air together with large angel wings on their backs. Young Erika is caressing her girlfriend’s face as her girlfriend embraces her from behind. Erika narrates, “The first time I fell in Real Love, I was flying high on a cloud of euphoria. It was my first Real Relationship and I knew I had found my Forever Soulmate.” “Until.” “Suddenly.” With a serene expression, Erika’s first girlfriend snips off Young Erika’s wings with a pair of shears. The next frame shows Young Erika right before she hits the ground, frozen in shock and disbelief. “She dumped me.” In anguish, Young Erika curls up into a ball on the floor. “The heartbreak made me physically ill, I had never experienced pain like this before.” Our current Erika steps into the frame to stand next to her past self, who has started crying alone. Erika puts her hands on her hips and looks at Young Erika with an understanding expression. “Aw, kid,” she says.

Young Erika sobs out, “All I did was love her and then she threw me away for no reason!” Erika reaches over to pat her younger self. “Well, honestly, you were kind of a dick.” “WHAT!” Young Erika yells back defensively. She angrily pushes herself up to glare at her older self, before pointing a finger at her. “Hey, who are you, anyway?!” Erika shrugs reassuringly. “I’m you. About 20 years in the future. Listen, you weren’t a dick on purpose, you’re not a bad person (and neither is she!). You’re just… young, you’re inexperienced with being a partner, and you’ve got some pretty unrealistic ideas about love.” Young Erika grumbles, “...Unrealistic ideas about love…? Love is love! What more do you need to know?” Erika takes Young Erika’s hand to help her get up. “C’mon,” Erika says. “Let’s you n’ me go down a trip down the River of Love.” Young Erika strikes a “Woe is Me” pose as the two make their way over to an inflatable raft with a paddle. She cries out, “What we had was MAGIC! Two souls combined! Such a pure connection can never be replicated!” “Go home, Erika, you’re drunk,” her older self responds. “ExCUSE you?!” Erika says, “Seriously! When you first fall in love, your brain is flooded with neurochemicals that make you high as balls.” An illustration shows a watering can pouring out a stream of neurochemicals including Dopamine, Serotonin, and Norepinephrine over a brain.

The stream from the brain continues to flow down to form a river that the two Erikas start to ride down in their raft. Young Erika leans over the side of the raft to run her hand through the flowing neurochemicals. She starts to cry. “What, so ‘love’ is just a buncha chemicals? LOVE IS A LIE!!!” (A note says, “Actual thing I actually said.”) Erika continues to paddle the boat. She replies, “Love is real, you’re just not in a sober mindset about it early-on.” “You think being in love with someone is this stationary state…” An illustration shows two people holding hands while enclosed in a glass cloche labeled “LOVE” with a heart for the O. “... When really it’s this living entity that’s constantly in motion.” The raft the two Erikas are in splashes around as they ride out a sudden wave. Erika calls out, “It never stops changing!” The water starts to calm. “Sometimes in ways that make you happier.” The water suddenly rushes down, dropping their raft down and forcing Young Erika to cling onto her older self. “Sometimes in ways that make you sadder.”

At this, Young Erika finally turns and looks back up at her. Erika leans in closer to face her younger self. “Two people can really love each other and still not be good partners together. Love by itself is not enough to keep a relationship afloat long term. A healthy partnership needs mutual support, mental and emotional nourishment, communication, negotiation, acceptance, boundaries, forgiveness… Love can’t fill all those roles itself. Sometimes the most loving thing to do is end a relationship before the things that don’t work rot into something dysfunctional or toxic later.” Young Erika angrily blows up at this. “... ‘loving thing to do’?! She HURT ME!!!” Young Erika flails about with spirals in her eyes as she continues to vent. “She betrayed me! She used me! She didn’t try hard enough! She never REALLY loved me! She threw me away! She’s a BAD PERSON! I hate her!” She sobs, holding her head in her hands. Erika moves over to comfort her. “Getting dumped sucks,” Erika says. “I’m sorry.” She brings her younger self in for a hug.

What a problem to have #comic #autobio

An autobiographical comic. Transcript as follows:

"So there's this device at the gym. I think it's called a "low row"? I'm not sure."
[Diagram of the device]
"You're supposed to sit with the cushion against your chest and pull on the two handles to work out your back muscles."
[Example of someone using the device as intended]
"However, as of late..."
[picture of me sitting at the device about to make use of it]
[I reach forward and my breasts get in the way of the cushion]
"I'm having trouble reaching the handles."
[I'm stretching my arms and struggling to hold onto the handle]

#TuLisQuoiMonChat ? De la BD autobio, des chroniques et de la fiction aussi et de la mise à nu.
Une étape de taille dans l'œuvre de Jean-Christophe Menu.

#chat
#catsofmastodon
#lecture
#bd
#autobio
#edition_independante

Photo d'un Croquis NB de chat qui dort devant un grand livre : Menu, collection 30x40, ed. l'Apocalypse. En arrière plan : le modèle, qui continue de dormir.

Page de BD Noir et Blanc de JC Menu, première page de l'histoire où il raconte la mort de sa mère.

Page de BD noir et blanc de JC Menu, où il met en scène son personnage Vert Thepamur qui lui reproche d'être en NB alors que son essence même est d'être vert. Dont acte le personnage devient vert (pantones 100%jaune et cyan)

LAMPISTE #2 l’intégrale, « comment j’ai été sauvé par des castors »
#cado #bd #altcomics #bandedessinée #fanzine #lampiste #matthiaslehmann #drawing #dessin #childhood #autobio

https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/becoming-a-queer-parent-christine-suggs/
Christine Suggs returns to their small, conservative town for a family visit, while they, themself, are in the process of trying to start their own unconventional, queer family with their husband back home. There's a lot for them to consider as they build their own unconventional, queer home.

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#Autobio #Comic #Webcomic #Queer

Christine Suggs is a nonbinary cartoonist who draws in a soft, cartoony style with a textured line and mostly flat, bright colors. Caption: Visiting my parents' house. "You abut ready to head out?" Calls a voice through the bathroom door. "Yeah, one sec-" Christine replies as they tousle their shock of hair on the top of their head, admiring their reflection in the bathroom mirror. A gross red "GOOSH" sound effect fills the air, causing Christine to flinch and blush. Christine unbuckles their pants, shimmying them downwards to the tile floor. Caption: Thanks to my birth control, it's been nearly five years since my last period. The panel crops in on their bare lower legs that have a smattering of hair and little tattoos on them, their jeans pooling around their feet. "OH." Christine exclaims.

Tintin & Lino
Extrait d’un récit plus long qui sortira en fanzine bientôt.
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#tintin #bd #bandedessinee #comics #autobio #ketje #lino

I'm a little late for those on the Eastern half of the globe, but for everyone else, a reminder that tomorrow (February 1st) is Hourly Comics Day!

What is Hourly Comics Day (HCD)? Every Feb 1st, artists all over the world take on the challenge of chronicling their day in comic form, one quick, sketchy comic per hour of wakefulness. It’s a challenge, but a fun one, and it’s a great way to get to know your fellow cartoonists!

You can do one panel each hour, or more, depending on what works for you, and it can be as sketchy and unfinished as you like. For examples, just search the Hourly Comics Day hashtags to see some from previous year's:

#HourlyComicsDay #HourlyComics #HCD #HourlyComicsDay2024 #HourlyComicsDay2023
#HCD24 #HCD23 etc.

Many people also use the shortened #Hourlies to refer to HCD.

I hope you'll think about participating! Take care, everyone! :camp_counselor:

#Comics #WebComics #AutoBio #AutoBioComics

Troisième publication sur ce réseau et je parle déjà de trou de balle. La CLASSE !
#autobio #mavie #bede

Bon, je me lance, on verra bien si j'accroche aux murs !

#comics #autobio #mavie

Most wonderful time of the year

#autobio #comic

I'm back at the gym and I hate planking lmao

#comic #autobio #mastoart

comic depicting me at the gym:
panel 1: "lighting weights - easy"
panel 2: "squats - in the bag"
panel 3: "leg press- ain't nothin' to me"
panel 4: "holding still for 30s - hardest shit in the world"

„Zwanzig Jahre nach Blankets kehrt Craig Thompson zurück zu seinen autobiografischen Wurzeln […]“ (Umschlagtext)

Gestern konnte ich Craig Thompson bereits zum zweiten Mal live bei einer Präsentation eines neuen Werkes erleben. [...]

Mehr: https://tinyurl.com/3xjsfsyf

#leseherbst #comic #craigthompson #reprodukt #ginseng #wisconsin #comingofage #autobio #gesellschaft #lesen #leselust #leseratte #bücher #literatur #indiebook #yesyoucomican

Phase 7 #026 is now available for ordering on Radiator Comics!

https://www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncategorized/phase-7-no-026/

Check out all of the other great minicomics they distribute while you are there!

#minicomics #starwars #hourlycomics #autobio

@otterlove #TrueStory #NonFiction #Autobio #CatLife #CatLifeInPrison

Joe Matt 2006

In remembering the late artist I am tooting this daily serial. Matt was a unique cartoonist, autobiographical and deeply personal, he always depicted his truest, worst self in his comics,

24B The end and RIP Joe Matt.

#comics #comicbooks
#autobio #JoeMatt

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