Poetry Comics Month, Day 22: Wonder

From my book THE ART OF LIVING, published by Abrams ComicArts.

By: @incidentalcomics

Bit of a poetic comic that came to me as I was enjoying the last of the fall leaves last weekend. 

(Don’t repost please.) 

Harrow (Complete in 5 Pages)

Continue reading Harrow (Complete in 5 Pages)

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haiku by a former ghost

[VD: Comics, zines, and anthologies by Kimball and Laurel cover a dark table. K (pale hands, orange nails) and L (smaller pale hands) leaf through 8 comics/zines and 2 anthologies. End VD]

My partner @earnestattempts (Kimball Anderson) and I (Laurel Lynn Leake) are queer and disabled comics creators, and we want to share our work with you!

We made a short video showing off our weird artsy comics, and talking about stories that honor marginalized lives as inherently meaningful. Also about committing to disability justice and making more of our work free and accessible! To that end, we're offering some limited discounted slots for the pricier tiers too.

🌿 Kimball &/or Laurel Posts Tier: Never miss either of our behind-the-scenes posts, unless you only like one of us! We don't mind :P You also get access to an ever-increasingly captioned archive.

💭 Counterintuitive Releases: We mail you 4-6 printed comics every year, and share digital releases with you first. Plus posts!

📮 Monthly Mailers: Kimball sends you an exclusive experimental zine in the mail every month, plus you get the Counterintuitive Releases.

🐚 our free patreon post tag 🌱 my tumblr comics page & comics tag 🎐 kimball's tumblr comics tag 🎨 kimball's website 🐌 my digital shop 🍃 kimball's digital shop 👾 my comics shop 🦉 kimball's comics shop

Thanks for reading/watching! 🧡 Longer vid description under the cut.

[Longer VD: Comic books cover a dark table, while Kimball (pale hands, orange nails) and Laurel (smaller pale hands) point to their own names. They both do a silly finger wiggle as their voiceover introduces “Counterintuitive Comics”. L leafs through “Me Me Me”, where a noodle-armed Poly Morphous sobs against lush watercolors. K shows "Unfolding", a large greyscale comic featuring paper folded to reveal text and paintings. L flips through roughly sketched diagrams in her “Super Secret Mock-up COVID-19 info zine”. K shows “Holding Out”: Social Security letters, wobbly colored pencil forms resting in bed. L opens metallic “Suspension” to show scifi trappings and character focus. K pages through small, wide zine “Winter”, with a character walking in darkness. L opens artsy risograph-blue “L3no2”: comics about anxiety and depression paired with scrawled, smeared text. K opens anthology “CBA: Uncomics” to their section: broken pencil panels and halting words floating over digital, painterly textures. Then L’s: colored pencil and marker abstractions of magazine layouts melting into unparsable forms. L opens K’s anthology “Inaction Comics” to K’s pages: soft digital figures seeking reassurance and reclining on a couch. A sharp-toothed watercolor version of L writhes in self-hatred on her pages. Finally L flips through “Poly Morphous #5: Sick of Being Sick” (mini with teal cover, pink pages, pencilled comics). She makes a heart shape with her hands. End VD.]

This is our first time figuring out video descriptions - we welcome feedback!

For living, in climate crisis • pt 3/3

Made this spring during my time as artist-in-residence at On Being. Read the full piece.

"The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot, page 6

Every week on this site, I will be publishing a new page from my ongoing comics adaptation of “The Burial of the Dead,” the first section of T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem “The Waste Land” (Click on image to enlarge). Most of the various “broken images” in the first panel make reference to other portions of “The Waste land” or to elements from my previous adaptation of Eliot’s “The Love Song of J.…

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Coming Soon: Poetry Comics by Grant Snider

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I swear I’m still growing even here. I am still growing. 🐛

Made this one awhile back while feeling incredibly stuck in my life, my career and creative goals. I’m not fully out of that, but it’s a helpful reminder to me that I’m still growing even when it’s not super obvious in the moment.

Breakups, am I right? This is about breaking up with a friend and feeling like you’re losing your kidney or something

Poetry Comics Month, Day 26: Texture

I will never get tired of the sea

Living in a Black and White World

Digging through the mazy warren that is the Geranium Lake Properties archive, I have unearthed several files dedicated to GLP comics that appeared in various zines, amateur fanworks and DIY media. Most of them were printed in black and white, and the two illustrations in this post were from a chapter in Words and Word Balloons, a thick (216 pages!) book-sized zine from ZC Pictorials*, edited by…

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UNCOMICS are here!

The international comics art magazine C’est Bon Anthology’s latest issue is out, and it’s a gorgeous collection of abstract comics, featuring yours truly! are they art? are they comics?  YES!

It's been exhilarating seeing how all the other contributors uniquely interpret the title concept of un/comics, breaking down the "sequence" of "sequential art" into abstract, poetic forms. For own my piece “Pull Quote”, I traced layered magazine spreads with colored pencil and blurry alcohol-based markers, twisting and pulling the design “architecture” into taffy, and I had a blast.

CBA 56/57 from @cbkcomix​ is edited by Allan Haverholm with cover by Jeremy P. Bushnell, and comics by Tym Godek @mostlybanal, my partner Kimball Anderson @earnestattempts​, Warren Craghead III @craghead​, @simonfarussell-blog​, Anastasia Hiorns @anastasia4444 , Gareth A Hopkins @grthink​, @tanaoshima​, Rosaire Appel, allison anne, William Lillstjärna, Louis Deux, Mark Badger, Miika Nyyssönen, Shaun Gardiner, Churchdoor Lounger, and Mattias Elftorp @elftorp​.

🔳 ORDER HERE 🔳 SEE MORE UNCOMICS HERE 🔳