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two stupid Jesse and Finn comics. i adore them
he’s not actually that old i just like to call him an old man bc im mean to him
time will change you
young american mechanic
what a normal and regular guy!
watching a lot of Hannibal recently has led me to thinking about my own tragically doomed FBI agent ocs so here’s the gang
back in 2018 i designed these characters for a short story i never finished, yesterday i found this character sheet again and decide it was time to give them a nice redraw
all dogs go to heaven (fake cover-ish thing for a comic concept)
i like doing these comparisons but i don’t like being reminded that 2019 was 5 years ago
sometimes a homoerotic friendship is worse than death
weird shit going down in the 80s ft. pretty girl who doesn’t want to be here and mean girl who is desperate for answers
it’s the doomed yaoi. the mental damage they give me is astronomical
hello tumblr here’s a redraw !
a new rendering style with some classic ocs
Jackie Ormes, the first Black American woman cartoonist
When the 14-year-old Black American boy Emmett Till was lynched in 1955, one cartoonist responded in a single-panel comic. It showed one Black girl telling another: “I don’t want to seem touchy on the subject… but that new little white tea-kettle just whistled at me!”
It may not seem radical today, but penning such a political cartoon was a bold and brave statement for its time — especially for the artist who was behind it. This cartoon was drawn by Jackie Ormes, the first syndicated Black American woman cartoonist to be published in a newspaper. Ormes, who grew up in Pittsburgh, got her first break as cartoonist as a teenager. She started working for the Pittsburgh Courier as a sports reporter, then editor, then cartoonist who penned her first comic, Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, in 1937. It followed a Mississippi teen who becomes a famous singer at the famed Harlem jazz club, The Cotton Club.
In 1942, Ormes moved to Chicago, where she drew her most popular cartoon, Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger, which followed two sisters who made sharp political commentary on Black American life.
In 1947, Ormes created the Patty-Jo doll, the first Black doll that wasn’t a mammy doll or a Topsy-Turvy doll. In production for a decade, it was a role model for young black girls. "The doll was a fashionable, beautiful character,“ says Daniel Schulman, who curated one of the dolls into a recent Chicago exhibition. “It had an extraordinary presence and power — they’re collected today and have important place in American doll-making in the U.S.”
In 1950, Ormes drew her final strip, Torchy in Heartbeats, which followed an independent, stylish black woman on the quest for love — who commented on racism in the South. “Torchy was adventurous, we never saw that with an Black American female figure,” says Beauchamp-Byrd. “And remember, this is the 1950s.“ Ormes was the first to portray black women as intellectual and socially-aware in a time when they were depicted in a derogatory way.
One common mistake that erased Ormes from history is mis-crediting Barbara Brandon-Croft as the first nationally syndicated Black American female cartoonist. “I’m just the first mainstream cartoonist, I’m not the first at all,” says Brandon-Croft, who published her cartoons in the Detroit Free Press in the 1990s. “So much of Black history has been ignored, it’s a reminder that Black history shouldn’t just be celebrated in February.”
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ANOTHER SKETCHBOOK TOUR
(Lots of bad doodles-)
Lots and LOTS gravity falls AU stuff, amongst other things. My 3 Buck Stan AU especially. I always love posting my sketchbooks because even if they’re all just jumbles of sometimes good doodles splattered across a page- It’s fun to show off and document the end of an “era” yk? Hope for those who watch the video enjoy it.
lol
Woof, this was a doozy for sure- Can’t wait to start on a clean slate!!!
Random little oc animation cuz I love them lol- Idk man
Mid October I finished this guy- Heavy falling into my Over the garden wall obsession very silly goofy lol
ArtFight First time participating!!!!
Yeah, idk fully how this works quite yet, but ill figure it out I guess. First and foremost, my silly little thing with my oc's and stuff. Oh yeah, and GO TEAM SEAFOAM!!! (I haven't fully finished my references for my characters but I will be posting them soon)
