It’s T’s 11th birthday today: an appreciation thread.
I was going to stop at 11 photos but I blew it. I COULD KEEP GOING! ...but I’ll stop. For now. I love you, @tallulahlouise — thanks for picking me to be your mom.
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The next #VisibleWomen is Monday, March 29. This is gonna be a thread about that.
I should probably start at the start -- the first #VisibleWomen day was in 2016. It started out of frustration at the perception that it was hard to find women who were qualified or wanted to draw mainstream comics. The first VW was for artists only. It went well.
So we did it again 6 months later. The goal was never just visibility; the goal was to get women work, to get them PAID. So we started producing a spreadsheet from the hashtag and offering it free of charge to any hiring professional in the publishing industry.
Filled up my bullet journal, setting up a new one today. Thinking I might tweet my process for it? Would that be helpful/of interest to anyone?
First step: put start date and volume number on finished book. Introduce it to the others.
My favorite brand is Archer & Olive. They are PRICEY, however. Lemome has similar paper weight at a more affordable price. Leuchtturm1917 and Moleskine are great, but pages too thin for my preference. If you don’t mind thin pages, they will last much longer.
Shitty teen last night walks by Tallulah dressed in all her Belle finery in the crazy Disneyland NYE crowd and says, in shitty teen snark, “nice Elsa costume.”
I saw it. I promise he was neither mistaken nor talking to someone else. He was deliberately fucking with a kid because he could and because the crowds meant we couldn’t stop and discuss it with him.