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Here comes my new picture book, The Princess and the Pony! Come, listen to my face tell you about it personally
Yo Brooklyn! Check out this SWEET ALVVAYS mural in Bushwick done by the very talented folks at Milestone Outdoor (original drawing by Kate Beaton)!
Catch Alvvays at this year’s Northside Festival w/ Best Coast & Built to Spill on 6/13!
Pack yer Catholic baggage and come with me for a comic about Saint Cecilia!
I guess we don’t know if Valerian was a virgin or not, but if he was, I doubt the choice would precede his name if people prayed to him.
If you grew up Catholic like me you had a lot of those picture books full of saints. They were great because they were crazy and gory and exciting, and they could be inspiring too. And if you were a girl, you were probably given a lot of cards and books and whatnot about all the virgin martyrs. Saint Cecilia didn’t get it as bad (virgin onslaught-wise) as .. oh, anyone from Saint Agnes, Lucy, Agatha, Maria Goretti (yikes)- but like all the virgin martyrs, this aspect of her life is presented with a certain… fervour. Gather round girls, let me tell you what a woman should be! You’ll be told a lot of ways in which they were strong and brave, but it doesn’t change this. And so when you start questioning what’s going on in the Church’s attitude towards ladies, these virgin martyrs are among the first to go.
I was reading a bit of feminist interpretations of these women’s lives, and it was super interesting, to try and think or rethink of their stories in their own terms (as much as you can anyway, rarities like Perpetua are out there), rather than a tool to tell me what I was and was not supposed to be. I’m no theologian, I just liked coming back to something that did have an impact on me, years ago. And so here’s Saint Cecilia, because the image of her still touches my heart, I admit.
Lots of talking today! Hello how you doing
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It’s the end of the world. A Softer World is ending, and we want to do something fun to celebrate!
you hate to see A Softer World end, but let’s have a proper send off! I tell you my friends that without my friend Emily, my comics would never have seen the light of the internet. This comic is one of the greats, an inspiration to many may it always be so.
Come see Marc Bell and I on Saturday! Click through for the rest of Drawn and Quarterly’s TCAF lineup!
Chapter One
Page One
Cigarette cards depicting possible professions for women, circa the 1880s.
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It’s here! It’s here!! If you dig it, don’t forget to pre-order the book for lots of free goodies! More details here: The Mary Sue Exclusive Premiere: The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy Book Trailer!
I just got this book in the mail because I have a little interview in it, along with a bunch of other amazing ladies. The book is really sweet and affirming and informative and encouraging, I would have loved to have something like it when I was younger. Get it for your fangirls big and small.
Today’s reading material (a quick read, just click through) because it’s good stuff and I was reading up on my fave gal Dr Sara Josephine Baker. And it had this quote:
Wylie and Baker were numbered among the hundred or so women belonging to Heterodoxy, a biweekly luncheon discussion club of free-thinking and free-spirited women, of whom perhaps a quarter were lesbian or bisexual.
HETERODOXY CLUB! How come I’ve never heard of that! Don’t worry, now we all know.
![Leda and Zeus, redrawn for the book
google image those two names IF YOU DARE (it’s hella raunch)
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Bread and Roses
An internet rabbithole, as they go.
Not long ago I watched the film Pride (set largely in 1984 Wales), and there was a scene where the community hall broke into the song Bread and Roses. I was on a plane, otherwise I’d probably have googled it.
I was looking at some labor history links today after looking at some titles on Scribd and came across this by the Labor Education Service from the University of Minnesota: there again, Bread and Roses (1912, far from Wales).
So now, reading the lyrics and looking up the strike and the song both, this is how we get the name Rose Schneiderman - who coined the phrase that was turned into a slogan, poem and song.
All of this to say that I was moved by a speech from Rose herself, in the wake of the famous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Thank you wikipedia for that. And now perhaps I ought to find more to read of hers, but that is the beauty of internet rabbitholes, there is always more to read:
“I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship. We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting. The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. We know what these things are today; the iron teeth are our necessities, the thumbscrews are the high-powered and swift machinery close to which we must work, and the rack is here in the firetrap structures that will destroy us the minute they catch on fire.
This is not the first time girls have been burned alive in the city. Every week I must learn of the untimely death of one of my sister workers. Every year thousands of us are maimed. The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.
We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift. But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.
Public officials have only words of warning to us – warning that we must be intensely peaceable, and they have the workhouse just back of all their warnings. The strong hand of the law beats us back, when we rise, into the conditions that make life unbearable.
I can’t talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.”
—Rose Schneiderman
Why Everyone's Saying 'YAAAAAASSSSSS' Now →
From “yeah” to “yaaaaas” to “yiss,” we’re rejecting the clinical “yes” and finding more nuanced ways to give our approval—and to hedge our bets.
Aw Yiss, my friends.
aw yiss.
Thanks for the shout out, the Atlantic!
The music video we did for the mega-lovely duo Garfunkel and Oates came out today! I loved getting to work on something romantic! SWOON! We hope you guys will watch it and share if you enjoy it! Riki and Kate are wonderful, talented artists with hearts of gold; please check out their other songs! They’re hilarious!
Big thank you to Jones who did most of the backgrounds!!
Thanks everyone!
My wonderful buddies Lindsay and Alex got to make a really beautiful, charming music video for Grfunkel and Oates!! Check it out!!
SO WONDERFUL!!!!
aw!!
(via finkspiration)
SO LONG, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT.
A “Persons Of Interest” drawing. You can get your own here, as my schedule allows, and see all the ones thus far here. Short version is I’ll draw any famous/widely recognizable figure, fictional or historical or just popular, just once.
NOTE: I’ve opened up ten more slots, if you’ve been waiting to get on the list! I’ll be wrapping up the last few remaining ones this weekend, so thanks for your patience!
the man is taking requests