Sometimes a Son’s Greatest Fear is Becoming His Father

That was bloody fantastic.

Pat Grant

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

mmm soob

are evil dragons really evil, or are they just vitamin D deficient?

When you can't eat 50 baguettes 😤

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the dubious philosophy of salmon

the number of people who have looked at this is officially too large a number

Art Block

I got an art block and I thought to do something about it. We’re friends now! \o/

This is the best way to see it.

the cutest encouragement.. 🥺 wanna encourage writers with this as well

Fantasy Is A Metaphor For The Human Condition, a comic about magic, and art, and speculative fiction, and being sick, and how they all intersect. Originally laid out/pencilled November-December 2017, when I was in a very difficult place emotionally as I was relearning how to draw post-brain injury.

See more of my Brain Injury Comix at this link & in Dirty Diamonds #9: Being

The Noromo Mando exchange is complete, and anonymous creators have been revealed! Not that there was doubt which submission was mine 😆. Here are the first couple pages of my comic, Ao3 link in the reblog.

for yesterday’s @guardian review. https://www.instagram.com/p/CMHRyhZHx-e/?igshid=1ompracmuxo8x

I made a comic

For awhile I’ve had the idea in the back of my head that I wanted to do a one-page comic, which seemed a very do-able length. What kind of story could I tell in only one page, though? I thought about it for a few weeks, looking for something interesting but concise. Then one day while I was sketching, I thought, I’ll make a comic about a dragon. A lonely dragon. Why was he lonely? This was my answer.

I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. There are couple little things I see on it that aren’t perfect, but I’m not even sure how to fix them at this point (I’ve been looking at it too long). So, its finished–not perfect, but It is what it is and I am satisfied. The intention was to have it look like it was made entirely as a linocut made with 4 color layers: Black (well, dark purple), gold, grey-green, and red.

As I made it it kept reminding me really strongly of the comic Digger by ursula-vernon, though I did not specifically intend to emulate her style. I don’t know much about her process, but I think it was probably something similar to what I used here.

Photos of the process (loose sketch to finished comic) are here: http://www.sarahluann.com/blog/the-lonely-dragon

There are themes I keep returning to... I made this comic in 2015. I kept thinking my new dragon illustration reminded me of something... it was the first panel of this comic.