Grad School Has Helped Me Level Up My Procrastination Skills

So I’ve scanned the pages of my risographed fashion study zine (you can buy that here)

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What I’ve been working on lately – my first ever piece of embroidery!

It’s for my grandmom.

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original illustration - face 2

available for $35

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Getting close to done!

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Like a Big Cat Purring

36"x20", mixed media weaving, utilizing a crochet shawl made by my late cousin, before her death, 2024

detail one

detail two

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Portrait Study 2023

Work in progress pictures can be seen here

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replying to anonymous asks

Anonymous said: I just met you and I already love you?? Your comics are so deep, I want to be an artist and you’re kinda giving me hope I can be happy with that :)

Thank you! Being able to inspire someone in their own art is on of the best things to hear. I wish you the best in your art-making. My advice (which I should listen to myself about) is to be understanding and kind to yourself. Art-making, even when it’s done spontaneously and just for fun, is a learning process. It’s taken years and years of practice, at least 5 of those years in the context of art schools, for me to make art the way I do. And I still want to learn more and change my art and I still get frustrated with it! So if you hit a stumbling block in your art, don’t give up!

Anonymous said: Would you do something with the KOTH character John Redcorn..?

I hadn’t really considered doing something with John Redcorn. If an idea came to me, I might do a comic.

Anonymous said: Honestly it’s time to kill off Peter and Homer or cancel both of the shows.

I’m biased, so I’d be fine with Family Guy being gone forever and Simpsons re-runs.

Anonymous said: Your comic about Bobby being a therapist to B*** and C**** is literally my favorite comic of all time, I’m always happy to see it on my dash, thanks for making it it’s incredible 

Thank you! :D

Anonymous said: good job!

Thank you, I do try.

Anonymous said: i just wanted to say i still really love your comic where bart simpson and chris from family guy are being counseled by bobby hill. its a great piece of media 

Thank you! It’s so weird to realize that comic is like... four years old.

Anonymous said: Hi there!! I followed u a year or so back bc of the bart/Chris therapy comic, and was wondering if you deleted the follow up comics u made ? I can’t seem to find them anywhere :0c 

Weird! They should be right here: https://panic-volkushka.tumblr.com/post/146046796495/its-here-a-hard-copy-version-of-my-comic

replying to anon messages under the cut

Hey I just wanted to tell you that that Bart Chris Bobby counseling cartoon made my day as well as a buddy of mine. Just wanted to thank you

Thank you for messaging me!

No question, I just wanted to say that your strip "Clients’ names and personal information have been omitted to retain their privacy" was the coolest thing I've seen in a long, long time.  Really amazing!

Thank you!

Will you be making any more comics about Bart and Chris, perhaps going to more therapy sessions or digging a little deeper into their personal lives together?

I might? But probably not for awhile. I’ve drawn and posted everything that I’d already planned. I have several other art projects that I’m working on and my next quarter of grad school starts in a couple of days, so I’ll be very busy.

wow, the second half of the comic is just as incredible! the poly ending is so nice and feelgood, and the therapy setting is so cathartic I just. it's so good. thank you.

Aw, thank you! As much as I like dark, brooding, morally ambiguous movies, books, and comics, I’m still a sucker for happy endings. Especially for queer characters. And I feel like Bobby is the kind of person that could balance poly relationships pretty well.

i mean i love everything about your therapy comics but can i mention how much i love that joseph has an alien tattoo on his shoulder? that's my favorite part honestly

:D glad you like it! at first I just thought it would be cool, but then I was like “wow that’s actually really symbolic of joseph’s ethnic heritage and the bio father vs lived father conflict” and took it super seriously

hey can i ask you something? years ago i remember seeing a blog with a queer transgender man persona/self insert who wore a mask and i was deeply in love with that blog. was that you? i'm sorry if this is a weird or insulting question, its just your art styles seem very similar and this question was killing me

ahhh, yeeeah, that was me. I had some family find my art blog and so I took down all my personal comics. I may repost them at some point because it’s like, those family members have already seen them and I know they still check this blog, so cat’s already out of the bag or whatever. I didn’t want to change my blog name or my pen name because changing that 50 million time makes it kind of hard to develop a “brand” or reputation as an artist. glad you liked those comics tho.

Oh, Crooked Teeth!

6.75 x 10in

Ink, marker, water color, stickers, product packaging, and plastic gems on found cardboard, coated with matte varnish for increased durability

original collage portrait, available for $35

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Some little OOTD-doodles

My dad once said I dress like a “Norwegian fisherman who’s let himself go” and I’m okay with that.

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