SHATTERMOUTH

(2B pencil on 132mm x 86mm paper)

A good little comic-book style frame. I did think of writing something in the speech bubble, but decided it worked better without it as a "Silent Scream" Some might want to use it as a meme and add their own text to it (as long as you credit or tag me when you do).

Hentai 4 Food

(Black fineliner on 125mm x 75mm notecard)

In the 1980s and 90s, when it broke into the west, manga and animé had a cool factor that nothing else had. It was edgy, underground and subversive. If you read manga, watched animé, or you were a manga artist, you were part of a very select group.

But, those shining gems we were first given from the east were quickly submerged by a tsunami of low-budget shite. Both manga and animé soon became a shameful cliché of itself, further compounded by the flood of hentai which inevitably followed.

Now, whenever the words "manga" and "animé" are mentioned, they're associated with cheesy animation or sex, because that's all they're really worth now. A terrible fall from grace for what was once the coolest kid on the block. It's everywhere and nowhere, and worth nothing.

Even though I used to love drawing manga, this crude, half-arsed example here will be the last manga image I ever draw. Perhaps, one day, it can somehow regain part of that lost credibility, but until then it's nothing more than an unclean dirty whore, an embarrassment to view and use, very much like a sign written in comic-sans.

No Parole

(HB pencil on 140mm x 88mm postcard)

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"He couldn't quite put his finger on it, but there was something telling him his appeal had not gone at all well."

 

An artwork which shows complete resignation to an inevitable fate and, no matter what you do, there's just no avoiding it.