Here are some handy (or shall i say.. tentacly???) links for work I referenced in my talk for LD Comics!
Read MoreHere are some handy (or shall i say.. tentacly???) links for work I referenced in my talk for LD Comics!
Read MoreHere are some handy (or shall i say.. tentacly???) links for work I referenced in my talk for LD Comics!
Read MoreExcited to be talking about comics, zines, artist collective, journey and process for LD Comics!
Read MoreFrom the Dementors in “Harry Potter” (2009 onwards) to Gloreth’s Beast in “Nimona”(2023) to the black hands in “Bee and Puppycat” (Netflix version), I noticed the disproportionate use of black and darker-skinned characters /forms in animations to represent monsters/baddies/ villains.
The monster/baddie contrasts with the hero/goodie/s who is by contrast white/ light and/or lighter skinned (as in these examples).
I’m asking white/light-skinned/ non-Black artists (writers, filmmakers, animators) to broaden their “baddie colour palettes”.
Do you recognise all the animals in my themed A-Z character set? I explain the connection between A-Zs and my mental health and provide a list of all the animals (as some of them are a bit random!) They can be downloaded for free (for personal use).
Read MoreElon Musk has said that the word “cis” is a slur. He’s wrong and here’s why… a presentation from a non binary musk deer. Comic by The Mollusc Dimension, a British-born Chinese transqueerian artist.
Read MoreSketches responding to François-Xavier Roth conducting the LSO playing music by Edwin Hillier, Rafael Marino, Robin Haigh and Rob Crehan. I began with observational sketches and then branched out into exploring how the music felt to me, and what I could imagine.
Read MoreArtist The Mollusc Dimension (a British-born Chinese artist) superimposes cut-outs of his face over those of 10 white cis men, mostly DWM from the patriarchal canon.
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