How Do You Feel About Your Bart/chris/bobby Comic Being Low-key Iconic In Some Circles? I Just Read It

how do you feel about your bart/chris/bobby comic being low-key iconic in some circles? I just read it again and it really brings me totears

I'm glad you find the comic so meaningful.

On one hand, it's gratifying as an artist, to know that my work has resonated with so many people. Based on some of the messages I've gotten from people, the comic has been part of how they processed their own childhood experiences or part of what inspires them to start their own therapy. That's amazing! It's not like I set out with that being the goal of the comic or anything!

On the other hand, it's given me a small experience of "death of the author." I didn't conceive of the comic as a sweeping critique of the "nuclear family animated comedy" or depictions of violence, trauma, or abusive relationships in media. I have LOTS of complex and contradictory opinions on "difficult" subjects in art. I created the comic while taking a class on family and couples therapy, and was inspired by the class to explore how real family/relationship dynamics might occur if I approached these cartoons as real families. I think a lot of people get this backwards -- they see the comic as using a lens of psychology/counseling to critique popular media. My actual experience of thinking up the comic was using popular media to explore what I was learning about psychology/counseling.

That said, I recognize that once something is out in the world, I can't completely control how it's interpreted or used. The positive messages I've received greatly outweigh my ambivalence about how some people view/interpret the comic.

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Figure Study 2023

Work in progress pictures can be seen here

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panic-volkushka

7 years ago

So I’ve scanned the pages of my risographed fashion study zine (you can buy that here)

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panic-volkushka

11 years ago

a gif of the process of my self-portrait

I will post a scan of the finished piece tomorrow, when I feel like I can deal with the undertaking that scanning a wooden panel will be.

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panic-volkushka

3 years ago

The first page of my Naruto fancomic. From here, I'll post the comic in two-page batches as I complete them.

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panic-volkushka

8 years ago

Little Box of Luck

cigar box, cigarette packaging, toy packaging, loteria card, pen, gesso, varnish, instax mini photographs, fortune from a mechanical fortune teller

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panic-volkushka

9 years ago

“original illustration - a fawn” available for $35 + shipping

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panic-volkushka

11 years ago

a boogie man from my Southern childhood

I distinctly remember, at age five, seeing our family friend Stephen Wade tell the 'Taily-Po' story, accompanied by his banjo. I couldn't find a recording of that, but here's a clip of Mr. Wade doing his 'banjo dancing.'

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panic-volkushka

4 years ago