Keeps Getting Petter And Petter

TIPS TO A NEWBIE ZINE AUTHOR! // 1. No skill level requirements! / The whole idea of zines is that everyone is allowed, capable AND has a right to make comics. / If you got something to say, say it! / But what if I DON’T have anything to say? (Or not enough material.) / Well, there are no length requirements to a zine either. HOWEVER… // 2. Team work rules okay! / Make a double-cover split with a buddy! When you brainstorm together, even small ideas can become big – even big ”enough” for a ”full-length” zine. / Come up with a mutual theme, share tasks on a single story (script, [sketch], drawing…), go nuts on an energydrink-soaked all-nighter… ANYTHING GOES!

What if my zine stinks after an hour or a year? / Let me tell you a story. // THIS is my first zine. Highschool copy machine, circa 2009. / It had high-brow humor about the human condition, as well as vulnerable personal stories about self-loathing and cynicism. // A year later, I DESTROYED every single copy. / Jesus Christ what EMBARASSING teenage angst garbage!!! // But I’ll tell you this! On that exact day in 2008 or 2009 or whatever, I was so damn PROUD of my VERY FIRST zine. / It was ham-fisted, it was inconsistent, it was, well, a zine made by a teenage boy. BUT THE WORST WAS OVER. NOW I HAD THE KNOW-HOW. THE EXPERIENCE. TO DO MORE, AND BETTER.

TODAY, my threshold to come up with, plan out and finish a zine is ZERO. / And just like I dislike my old work simply because I have grown as an artist, there will always be some asshole who dislikes your work, NO MATTER HOW GOOD YOU ARE. // (Friend’s conservative father reads ”HeteroseXual Animals.” / A-hem!! // And just as certainly, in ten or twenty years, I will read my current zines amused, embarrassed and most of all PROUD that I started my journey SOMEWHERE, instead of waiting for the ”right moment.” The ”right moment” will never come, because EVERY moment is the right moment! / SO GET TO IT! YES YOU CAN!

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Not actually sorry about my taste in men at all.

”A Typical Artsy Sketchbook/Comic Diary Debut (’Fuck, I Hope This Isn’t Some Kind Of A Rebound Thing’)”, ink on paper, 2015.

I’ve drunk too much and watched Steven Universe. / Square Mom says: / Remember to drink water. / And you do have a right to crave affection. // I haven’t smoked for a month. // At the end of March there was a party and you smoked at least five cigarettes, prolonging your sickness for at least a week! / Fucking hips, why won’t you lie!

Now that I have new pens, I can do a buttload of comics at all times! Yup, juuust comics. All day, every day. No other urgencies breathing in my neck currently. (Other than summerjob and graduation and stuff.)

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there, now i can keep not updating for another two and a half weeks or more.

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