I am working on a few projects I can’t really share yet, and I just signed on for another one with a book publishing startup. Acrobats has been barely updated for months now and while I love my characters and story still, I really think it’s best to put it on hold and come back to it when I can devote appropriate time and energy to a regularly-updated comic. I was originally planning to get through chapter one and put out a booklet, but it would still take a while to get there, and now way am I just shoving an incomplete story into published format and peddling it to people without being able to tell them when the resolution will arrive!
I will be updating sketches and miscellaneous things now and again and I plan on having a table at APE, SF Zinefest, and Bent Con this year (jury is out for Yaoi Con!) I’ll update things here so no worries, but you can find agentagnes on Twitter, Wordpress, and Facebook, too.
Thank you all!!
Kisses,
Agnes
we love sushi we love hamburger we love anime we love baseball
YES
(Source: time2die, via sailorsnonsequitur)
New Acrobats, which I finally finished, now that I’m officially done with my flu bout!
Have I shared my current digs with y'all yet? Cuz for the past two months, this is where I’ve been living - my friend’s sofa, with a sweet curtain and a table for all my hardware crap. What I’m saying is: there are plenty of reasons for my slowdown. But I get my own room in two weeks! :D
Weellll… I left off talking about putting up more art soon but I have some kind of horror flu. Back to work when I can! Got a lot of plans.
People of color, women, and gays – who now have greater access to the centers of influence that ever before – are under pressure to be well-behaved when talking about their struggles. There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner: newspapers love to describe words or deeds as “racially charged” even in those cases when it would be more honest to say “racist”; we agree that there is rampant misogyny, but misogynists are nowhere to be found; homophobia is a problem but no one is homophobic. One cumulative effect of this policed language is that when someone dares to point out something as obvious as white privilege, it is seen as unduly provocative. Marginalized voices in America have fewer and fewer avenues to speak plainly about what they suffer; the effect of this enforced civility is that those voices are falsified or blocked entirely from the discourse. —
The White Savior Industrial Complex
The internet has been a great resource on privilege and institutionalized discriminations. I hope the knowledge spreads.
(Source: The Atlantic)
A few extra pages for Picnic on the Moon. :>
Actually, pretty much the moment I got these done, it was like therapy and I felt much better. I’m an eternal optimist! Even if a single one. ;3
Sketches done during Wonder Con weekend! I’m getting back to doodling. :3 The rest involve boobies so I’m just linking them. :>
Mermaid. (Yet another one, I like drawing topless mermaids, I guess…)
And now some kinky 18+ things! These are def NSFW…
I’m on a roll with the ladies. ;) Now back to Acrobats!
And another reminder about Prism Comics looking for more creator variety!
Hello everyone! I am scanning in and fixing up a buncha sketches to show everyone, but it’s slow going until Thursday. In the meantime, I have to say I had a wonderful time at Wonder Con thanks in large part to the folks at Prism Comics. Prism works to promote LGBTQ creators and works featuring LGBTQ characters. And they are in fact now looking for more creators, specifically those of us who identify as:
lesbian
bisexual
otherwise queer female
trans
genderqueer/fluid
intersex
create comics about characters who identify as above
and anything that isn’t essentially gay-identified cis men!
Prism is concerned about becoming the kind of boys’ club mainstream comics is, so they asked me to recruit (ahem) for the cause. If you fit any of these categories, please consider sending in your comics! And please consider attending Bent Con in LA in December. I will be tabling and am brainstorming panels on intersecting topics of comics and queerness. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please let me know! :D
Soon off to Wonder Con in Anaheim!
I am going to hang around the Prism Comics booth now and again between doing my rounds. I have two signings there: Friday at 5pm and Saturday at 4pm. Plus, I will be participating in the panel THE BAD AND THE BOLD: PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES WITH LGBT CHARACTERS at 6:30pm on Friday. I will not be at the con Sunday so if you’d like to say hi, the signings are your best bet!
Oh yeah, and re: Acrobats. I’m on a deadline for an illustration for another project, hence the delay. I just started inking the next page so it should be up soonish.