despite everything, it’s still you

Harrison Wood Hsiang

compliments from girls go hard

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journal comics

#6 august

via niall.breen.comics

save me glowing stars

Digital dreams.

i think the advice came from @ms-demeanor !

This was in 2020 and it was advice about how not to lose your mind when deprived of the ability to go outside.

I made this comic back in July of 2020 after starting my daily meteorological fiction project in March of that year! I was never able to remember where I first read that phrase, but as far as I know, it should have been over 15 years ago. I think the way it was phrased was rather specific, but it also is a common piece of advice, which is why I didn’t feel too bad basing my comic around it.

Honestly, the more people spread the sentiment, the better, and I still mean every word of this comic, maybe even more than when I made it.

I have baby disease.

A comic I made right before the pandemic hit (and a year before I came out of the closet)

After 🦋

I want to draw more silly comics. The Barbie movie was super funny!!!

new ebbits! new site!

this is probably my favourite comic of all time jsyk

can someone explain this to me?

Sure thing! For convenience I’ll refer to the guy with his arms in his pockets as SG (shorter guy) and the one on the computer as TG (taller guy).

In the first panel, SG sees TG playing on the computer and is disappointed. SG puts a lot of value in the idea of “making things,” specifically “art,” and thinks TG is just wasting their time

So he asks them if they wouldn’t rather be “making something” instead of just playing games and listening to music, implying that TG isn’t doing anything worthwhile or creative with their time

But TG replies that “interpreting is generative,” meaning that even if they spend their time just doing fun stuff, the mere act of enjoying something is creating an experience and an interpretation. Talking about something, dancing to music or sharing a piece of art with your friends IS “making something,” and each of those can be worthwhile and artistic.

SG leaves, complaining he “can’t be an auteur of [interpretation].” Auteur is a movie term that refers to a filmmaker with artistic control and vision enough to be considered essentially the singular creator of the resulting work of art. Turns out, SG doesn’t just want to “make things,” he wants to make things he and others see as “important.” He wants to make art not for the sake of art, but for the sake of being recognized and praised for his art.

This comic really speaks to elitism within the artistic community, the idea that art needs to meet certain standards to be considered art. SG’s viewpoint is really traditionalist, that art need to be “approved” and validated in order to be considered “really art;” while TG recognizes that art can be as little as just talking about what you love.

TLDR: Art is for everyone, not just some sort of social “artistic elite.”

ooh i love the explanation

try new things whether you like it or not 😤

sadbuddies

“You’re on your own, kid” Words by Taylor Swift, art by me :)

ig: @ine8s​

My therapist told me to post this lol