Nine Times Nine

Side Passage 2 up on Wowio.

2008-05-28T23:38:00.000-07:00

Leslie Lashes

2008-05-12T18:20:00.000-07:00

Grand Theft Auto

2008-04-30T22:21:00.000-07:00

2008-04-20T13:38:00.000-07:00

I'm gonna go ahead and say green was not the best choice.

2008-03-05T05:24:00.000-08:00

Side Passage

2008-02-27T11:49:00.000-08:00

Side Passage #1 is complete! This is a fun minicomic series that incorporates a lot of stuff I love but am afraid to include in my "serious" type comics, such as dirtiness, D&D jokes, and essays. Also this is the only comic where the magic user will yell "DUDE!" at the elvish rogue.

The first printing is being sent to SPACE with friends, as I am unable to make it this year. Also, there is a version (WITH VARIANT COVER!!!) going up at Wowio hopefully sometime in the next week or so.

Look out! It's an essay!

2008-02-21T23:15:00.000-08:00

Feminism and Perversion or
How Not To Feel Guilty About Hot Girl-on-Monster Action

edit: I feel I should mention, based on a comment made on this essay without reading the comic, that nothing I'm referring to involves rape. It may be possible that a scene which I see as a sort of over the top "dog humps leg" gag can be interpreted as having more in common with actual abuse if you read the essay without seeing the comic. Of course, that would also assume that I find rape "funny, sexy, and exciting", which is sort of a horrible thing to assume about someone, even a pervert.

It has always been a challenge for me to reconcile my firm belief in the equality of the sexes with the delight I take in narrative scenes depicting pretty girls being molested by monsters. How does one be both a feminist and a horrible, disgusting pervert? My first action toward resolving this question was to directly attack sexist portrayals of awesomness found in anime and mainstream comics with my sexy action comic Side Passage.

The character Emily, for example, wears a hilariously skimpy outfit that could not possibly protect her from attacks of any kind except those made by soft objects aimed directly at her hips or the under part of her breasts. She doesn’t pose for the viewer, nor does she make inexplicably out of context comments alluding to her sexuality, two primary symptoms of the mainstream comics heroine sex dolls she parodies, but do these deviations pull the depiction back from the boundaries of sexist exploitation? Perhaps I should ask this question again when the chronically naked barbarian dude joins the group later.

More implicit to my goals is the scene where her naked body is groped by greasy tentacles, which is completely awesome. Here Emily contradicts the pathological helplessness of the typical victim of such scenes, becoming more angry and more fierce the further in danger she sinks. Additionally, the narrative focus is on her struggle, not on the interplay of flesh and monstrous appendage, nor on how hard she blushes. The scene is meant to be funny and sexy and exciting. But do I succeed in my attempt to depict feminist perversion? The guideline I follow is simple: is the character diminished by the portrayal of her in situation x? (Followup: how freaky cool is situation x?)

It’s possible that I am failing, in which case it may seem as though my explanations are nothing but excuses to justify drawing kick ass perverted monster sex. But I’m striving for something I find genuinely important: kick ass perverted monster sex that does not contribute to the widespread conception that our girls are nothing more than objects to be molested by freaky monsters, but instead reinforces the reality that they are people, with feelings and independence and sometimes they can cast spells, they look awesome with their clothes off, and monsters totally want to get on that, and sometimes those monsters get a little action, and in the right context it’s super hot.

2008-01-27T21:21:00.000-08:00

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2007-09-04T19:24:00.000-07:00

Hey, I finally came up with a cover design for Residue that I like, complete with rather optimistic inclusion of the Image logo just to see how it would look.

2007-08-23T21:58:00.000-07:00

2007-08-04T20:22:00.000-07:00

For the KC Roller Warriors program.

2007-07-23T19:39:00.000-07:00

The very lovely Dolly Baltimore. Although I'm not much of a life drawer, this won me a sketchpad and ink set, alongside Peregrine Honig. This is because nobody cares about quality if you can make them laugh.

2007-07-09T19:17:00.000-07:00

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2007-06-06T16:22:00.000-07:00

OMG THIS IS MY NEW FAVORITE DRAWING

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