Category: Comics

Ṭaus al Chalabi

Portraits Of Animals Over Black Holes

 

Ṭaus al Chalabi is a transdisciplinary artist working across sound, installation, film, graphic art, and performance. His practice explores relationships through the subtle dynamics of sound, with particular attention on ecoacoustics. His work has appeared on KCRW, National Public Radio, and KROQ-FM; at festivals including Sundance Film Festival and South by Southwest; and at institutions such as the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NEW INC), Grey Area, the Indiana State Museum, and Harvard University. He is an IdeasCity Detroit Fellow and a NEW INC alum, and recently served as a juror for Best Original Score at the International Documentary Association Documentary Awards. He holds a B.A. and M.U.P. from Harvard University.

 

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Sumayya Ansari

Making Roti

 

Sumayya Ansari is a Muslim, Pakistani American painter, illustrator, and web designer living in Los Angeles with her husband, three kids, and a sweet but sassy cat. Besides creating art, She loves cooking, baking, biking, sewing, knitting, and crocheting. Sumayya is interested in creating work that explores the journey of motherhood, being a Muslim, and being a woman of color. ​As an Illustrator, she is interested in licensing, children’s Book illustrations, and editorial work. In the past, she has worked with clients like Hitachi, National Geographic for Kids, and Heated Magazine. She also sells her stationery and prints from her shop ladooladoo.com. To see her work in detail, you can check her website sumayyaansari.com. If you want to keep in touch and see what she is up to, you can subscribe to her monthly newsletter from her website.

 

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Ellen O’Grady

You Told Me You Wouldn’t Talk With Me If I Spoke About Palestine

 

Ellen O’Grady (Durham, NC) creates quiet comics about politics and spirituality for thoughtful people. Her book Outside the Ark: An Artist’s Journey in Occupied Palestine (55 Books) and her mini-comic “How Are We to Live?” (Paper City Publishing) benefit people and organizations in Gaza. You can find more of her work on Patreon and Instagram @ellenogradyart.

 

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Jill Emery

Peace Dove Journals

 

Jill Emery is a self-taught artist/musician from California, where she started playing bass in her teens in LA punk bands, eventually becoming a part of Superheroines, Hole, Mazzy Star and others. While she enjoyed the collective creativity of bands, she found visual arts to be a great solitary creative outlet.

As a folk expressionist she explores themes of life, death, spirit, favorite bands/people and giving voices to animals. Jill says her process through imagination keeps her laughing and gives life to many of her pieces. ‘Lately part of my process in painting has been to think about words in a poetic/symbolic sense its pretty free flowing and completely cathartic. While creating i add layers hoping the feeling is conveyed as a life, cells holding memories, sometimes words or images bleed through as if representing.’

 

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Maryam Mehrjui

Full Moon Insomnia

 

Maryam grew up in Tehran in an artist household. Her father is a renowned filmmaker and her parents worked together on the movie set. Maryam came to NYC to study theater at the age of 20. She then became a nurse and worked 15 years as an ER nurse in many different hospitals in New York. She is now an acupuncturist and polarity practitioner and lives in the Hudson Valley. She practices from home and has a daughter and two cats. Besides writing short stories and drawing, she also loves to hand build cats from clay.

 

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Robyn O’Neil

Old-Fashioned Waltz

 

Robyn O’Neil is an acclaimed American artist renowned for her large-scale graphite drawings that explore the human condition through stark landscapes and figures. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions since the late 1990s, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial, and is housed in over fifty museum collections worldwide. For over 10 years, O’Neil has hosted the podcast ME READING STUFF, sharing readings of poetry, literature, essays, and more. This is her first comic. Follow her on Instagram @robyn_oneil. Subscribe to her Substack at robynoneil.substack.com for a chance to receive an original drawing.

 

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Sadie Hales

Leave A Mark

 

Sadie Hales has been a waitress, cab driver, pilot, seamstress, house cleaner, barista, farmer. She’s worked in an office, handing out fliers on the street, slinging popcorn at a movie theater, going door to door for the census. She has no training as an artist or writer. She has no business being here. She lives in a tiny town in the northernmost part of CA with her family.

 

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Jesse Mechanic

Prism + Cube

 

Jesse Mechanic is a writer and artist based in New York’s Hudson Valley. His work has been published in Mother Jones, In These Times, Huff Post, Truthout, World Post, and other publications. He is the author of the books, The Last Time We Spoke, and Don’t Be A F*#king Marshmallow.

 

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Emma Brewer

Trial By Water

 

Emma Brewer is a satire and fiction writer from Vermont. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker.com, McSweeney’s, The Cut, Epiphany Magazine, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in the Addison County-based Zig Zag Lit Mag.

 

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