Tatiana Gill’s Blog of Wax

Hey if you’re on Facebook and you want to be my fan, “like” me, or just see more comix, my artist page is here. I’ve posted a bunch of my old comics and illo work on there too.

I’m pretty sure this guy lives near Kate Beaton and hangs out with her a lot. I love him and his rad cartoons haha. What joy!

Lots of strips: http://threewordphrase.com/

Ryan’s Website! http://www.ryanpequin.com/

Ryan’s Twitter! http://twitter.com/ryanpequin

Ryan’s Lj! http://ryanpeq.livejournal.com/

http://whatthingsdo.com/comic/this-already-happened-10/

Oh no not another iPad Post, you say, to which I reply, yes, this news is too great to respect my self imposed ban on iPad.

 I saw one this morning and it’s one of the greatest comic platforms I’ve ever seen. Super sharpest full resolution blast in your face color are you kidding me? BOOM! I am so excited to make iPad comics, and I hope you will too. Lets show these mainstreamers how it’s DONE, indy comickers! Raise your pens and lets go Scott McCloud on their assets!

Molly Kiely was the first all-empowering, all sex-positive, cartoonist I read, and considering I worked for an erotic comics retailer, I’ve read THEM. ALL. Molly Kiely stands alone as her own awesome stake in the world of Comics, Feminism, Porn, Erotica, Black and White Art, and Sex Positive Empowerment.

 She blew my mind with “Diary of a Dominatrix” and “That Kind of Girl” in the 90s and early 00s. Now I’ve found her on flickr, doing gorgeous pin ups and photography of the gorgeous Molly Kiely in the flesh!

SWOON.

http://www.mollykiely.com/

365 Days of Being 40 on Flickr (Pix and Modelling by Molly)

Cover to the book that changed my sexual insides, “That Kind of Girl”

Hark! Kate Beaton is the funniest cartoonist alive today!

 http://beatonna.livejournal.com/

What about NEW comix by Tats, you ask? Well I’m writing a fantasy-genre graphic novel and I’m sooo excited about it. It’s the greatest fairy tale I’ve ever read and I love fairy tales. I’ll be making more thumbnails soon, but here’s a sneak peek at my super-scrawly creative process. As long as I know what I mean…

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Onto the thrust of this post: I’ve been digging up some old work to show off online, things I did c. 2000-2004 or so. I hope you enjoy!

Maxiedog Comic

A Biography of Beatrix Potter 

Spookie, the Hottie Teenage Ghost

O-Chaya

The Shambling Mound

Nurse

Misc Short Comics

9/11

Mom’s Recipe

Well they say the suffering artist is a myth…but I’ve been having a hard time recently and it’s coming out in some new artistic directions, which I love.

Here’s a self portrait of a newly-sober alchoholic (been almost a year now).

And here’s the start of a new series, bus comics! Scrawled out sloppy comics where I draw whatever I’m thinking on the bus.

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/132424.Tatiana_Gill

I’ve been unemployed and sitting out in the sun reading comix whenever possible (I live in Seattle, so you have to lay in wait and strike like a cobra, running out at the first cloudbreak!)

First off I’ve been reading “Wanted,” I saw the movie and I loved it. I was just dying to see how some of the cooler effects and narrative techniques of the movie were translated into comics.

Haha, well what can I say, I was blown away. It’s not at all like the movie, and I understand why none of the un-PC stuff made it to the big screen (like him raping an “A-list movie star”). It’s like a FOX News anchor wrote this comic, then again it’s about being a supervillian (not “assassins” like in the movie), so maybe the writer knows exactly what he’s doing. Getting into the mind of a supervillian, which could admittedly be riddled with right-wing, racist machismo. Or the writer is another Miller-esque stroker loving his 12 year old mantasies, in which I case, I still enjoy a good softcore stroke book as much as the next reader, galling politics aside. The funniest part is all the people are drawn (excellent art, I might add) to look like certain movie stars, only it’s not who was cast. The Fox is drawn like Halle Berry in the GN, only it’s played by Angelina Jolie in the movie, and the protagonist is a dead ringer for Eminem in the GN. I want a remake!

Next up I’m almost done with “Need More Love” by underground matriarch Aline Kominsky Crumb. It’s a mixture of old comix and narrative text. I’ve dug her work and been a bit scarred by it since my mother brought home her “Bunch” comix when I was a pre-teen. She’s sloppy and disgusting and wholly obsessed with her famouser husband, but I love it. She’s also passionate and dedicated and unflinching in the face of her real thoughts and desires, something I also admire about the Mister. I also enjoy their rearing of their daughter Sophie Crumb, especially considering how she embraced their experimental 60s lifestyles in her own comix, two decades later. It’s pretty hilarious to watch Aline and Diane Noomin go OFF on the drama behind Wimmen’s Comix and Twisted Sisters…I always assumed these ladies were one big collective of grrl power. It’s pretty clear we’re only getting one side of the story, I still admire Trina Robbins work and what it’s done for female cartoonists everywhere. But it’s fascinating to be let into her life like this, in the center of the cutting edge comix world for the 70s, 80s, and 90s.