they got me up against the biggest name in the game https://hell.twtr.plus/media/ff9cfc8496591cde4f6d0a52760a106eeeb920961d95566ac3d3a38a71e930a6.file
this year was really a grab bag. due to working on the book (pinned tweet check it out) i couldn't really pull off and dig into a comic series like i normally would. ultimately these pushed me along quite a bit. in a way this "other-me" became a new extension of myself. cool. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/347cf0a3e643dbb74c0a464f233a92e1ff79d92e4ad115d2d9c429c7d5ee509c.file
eventually, i decided the newspaper upgraded from some more primitive printing technique to something that would allow for color. i would sit down in the dark and imagine people speaking english, slavic, yiddish, norwegian, german, and reading these, in their little enclaves. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/c9532c4a4ca69259916d6961975118b04308a6a4dcaa9941884ccf0c64037609.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/4531bbcc3492680ff0d01fe8022872d3e6a7de6c95b8378525ae4167201ddd48.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/afd0fea7131ddd739c245cf7a58e8a13635048c006b27bb4c4fac6b2e0d156df.file
although i never told anyone this, it really took off internally. i really imagined that i was this person. i even learned some basic terms and phrases in a few languages that i imagined they spoke here. i started to think about concepts that would communicate across these lines https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9133b78154bcf9475443aef42a981031d38a0607f61ea0c303f8e01880ec4075.file
he works as an illustrator for a set of newspapers in this city. because of the language situation there, he's paid extra for cartoons without words, because they can be more easily distributed into various publications with no linguistic or translation logistics. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/29594d8ac17ca15e246562f8c53bcefbd8ad18229720d28bfcaae55eb6ef1407.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8c40105760880e3b9862c945e7f207d1acfb9b9bd4ae61326bdaf6ccae2ba73f.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/a098f5c42cf60b87afa2da394b0acd46e88fa2b4d2c1cb70eb1d5e2e74e05e13.file
for these comics, i created a version of myself named "yone", who lived in a city that was vaguely austrian, somewhere between eastern and western europe. in this city, people speak many different languages. the city is essentially balkanized into language enclaves. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/718142491617f1a1ed41d8994070c5317789356b5550d02441589a47611e3366.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/c2e37a3ab203e679664f8c034100ded31542f0087c75592139d222e82acbc243.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/ccc99a3ff64403ccd4e4ced15cddb3498a0d54b6c866f63975578e3da702a6b1.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/ae5a031ac96bb8a7753c1fa71de4707ca61b39b23f658a7076e18f4d5597735f.file
december always feels like recap time. here's my favorite set of comics from this year and the idea behind them. alternate personas play a large role in my thought process. for this series, i created an alternate version of myself, then made the comics as this person. ... https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5379dd2531ec14bb7ebfd881bc3f291148d8fb5b416dc178d42d2687f858dd4a.file
the baby Jesus from the nativity has gone missing, so now i have sent my children out into my home to search for him. basically, i am now herod.
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