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Artist Creates Relatable Comics Illustrating Her Gaming Habits, Social Mishaps And General Ineptitude At Life (35 Pics)
Interview With ArtistComics are an interesting way of communicating one's thoughts and feelings about a situation. Many artists choose to translate their ideas and things that are difficult to articulate in the form of a comic book. It's the way creators speak their minds, share their passions or just joke around about something.
Today, we want to introduce to you a talented artist named Meg who entered the world of comics in 2016. She's been creating illustrations based on her life, which, according to her, as of recently, has been "outta whack". As Meg shares on her Patreon page, her comics depict her "gaming habits, social mishaps, sarcastic opinions and general ineptitude at life" and a lot of people find them relatable!
Scroll down for the fun illustrations and let us know what you think about them in the comments!
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As Meg described herself, she is an aspiring comic artist based in Pittsburgh. She's been drawing on and off for most of her life but only recently started taking cartooning seriously as a way to document her thoughts and feelings since she's "too lazy to be consistent with the diary."
Meg studied Fine Art at a community college for two years, during which time, according to the artist, she was a bit of a "shy art nerd". "I began illustrating my experiences and posting comics to Facebook since I struggled with openly expressing myself offline; I usually got good reactions, and my friend Toby suggested I put my work on Reddit. I had a few panels on there that did particularly well, and noticed peopled seemed to like my 'funnier' content (big surprise). After graduating, I took a few years off from making comics to pursue a career in art; that obviously didn't work out, so I'm back to making comics - but this time for fun, I'm way more extroverted than I was when I started."
That's not how most of us believe though. I'm a Trump supporter and so is pretty much everyone I know, some lgbtq as well. None of us care what ppl do in their lives! The media will have people believe otherwise & sure there are some crazies but most of us aren't hateful people.
Load More Replies...By, “all lives matter” they mean ALL. Even people they dislike. God said to love everyone, including your enemies. Yes, SOME people are like this guy, but not most of them. This is just through my eyes so no need to downvote me if I have a different opinion as you.
Shhh...if you say that, the people that believe their lives matter "more" will get upset...
Load More Replies...Blah. The BLM movement isn't about not caring about anyone else. Just like feminism isn't only for and about women. It's a way of raising equity and bring equality for the ones that historically (and even today, sadly) are considered to matter less and are less privileged. It's not that hard to understand.
And pride and the lbtq-movement (sorry if I'm not properly updated on all orientations included) isn't about not accepting heterosexual love. Etc etc I'm sure you could find more examples.
Load More Replies...BOOM! NOW EVERYBODY IS INVALID AND THEREFORE EQUAL! GENIUS!
Load More Replies...Never met a MAGA person who hated Gays; obviously the "Artist" is uninformed or they would know of Dave Ruben, Milo, and many other "Gays". #BigotsWillBigot
Milo is cool with pedophilia. My whole family is MAGA and if you aren't straight conservative white Christian, their love doesn't extend to you.
Load More Replies...I take it to mean that no one is inconsequential, for good or for ill.
Load More Replies...But like… is it about ethnicity or sexuality? Of course gay lives matter. Some people just don’t support their decision. All lives matter mean that black lives aren’t worth more than white lives or Hispanic lives or Indian lives etc.
I'm against BLM, because I've seen too many of their people being hateful. Instead, im part of the hands of respect. Started by Stan Lee, we aren't about raising any one race. We're about safety, respect, and liberty for everyone in all things.
It's the Muslims that say gay lives don't matter, not the conservatives.
All lives matter. Black, White, Gay, Non-binary, Heterosexual, Jew, Biden supporters, Trump supporters, And Russians. It's not complicated.
Fun fact: Trump was the first president of the United States that supports gay marriage going into his presidency. Make sure to learn your facts.
Not sure this is actually what I would consider support: "“It’s law,” he said in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday. “It was settled in the Supreme Court. I mean, it’s done.”"November 13, 2016
Load More Replies...Honestly nobody I know cares who you are attracted to. Some of them don't agree with it being a huge broadcast but they also think it's nobody's business weather you're straight or gay or bi or anything
I used to think it's not my business what people choose to do with their lives, and I wish I could still feel like that. But I realized, if you take that stance, and then don't want to be a part of it yourself, they are not content with that. Homosexual movement wants to forcefully rub your nose in it and make you make cakes to celebrate them, and if you believe God is against it, they won't stop till they can attack every christian in the world and force them to stop preaching the truth. I wish we could sit back like I once wanted to, but the persecutions are growing, and the usa will one day kill us christians like lambs at the slaughterhouse. And it will be because we didn't stand up against sin long before.
Load More Replies...Trump also was the 1st president in his 1st term to Ban a group of people already serving in the Military. I.e. Trans people. So, No... Trump wasn't an Ally to the Alphabet Coalition (LGBTQIA+)
Meanwhile in reality land, Trump was the first president to be pro gay marriage before he was elected president. So.....
No. Gay marriage had already cleared the Supreme Court a year before he came into office, so he would gain nothing by trying to fight it. "After the Supreme Court ruling, Trump said the court had made its decision and, although he disagreed with the ruling, he did not support a constitutional amendment that would allow states to re-ban marriage equality. He later said he would appoint Supreme Court judges who would be committed to overturning the ruling." THAT'S your "reality land".
Load More Replies...There are a lot of different inspirations behind Meg's work. May it be everyday life, mental health issues or pop culture, it's whatever the artist is into at the moment. "Any time I've got a feeling, experience, or idea that I just can't get out of my mind I'll end up turning it into a comic; for me, the process of drawing out my thoughts and condensing it into 4 panels is a great brain dump."
I usually steer away from even 30 minutes before closing, I don't want to be "that guy"
What inspired Meg to create comics in the first place was Bill Watterson's "Calvin and Hobbes". "I remember reading through collections of them when I was about 7 or 8 years old, absolutely in love with the snarky dialogue and full-page watercolors. I also would race to the comics section in the Sunday newspaper, back when we would get them, and probably owe a lot of my comic inspiration to Zits and Foxtrot as well."
I learned that I don't like other people that much. So in my opinion, the "human connection with random strangers" that was hiped during the mask and distance times is highly overrated.
Since Meg's comics are based on her own life, we got curious if it's not difficult to share them with other people on the internet. The artist revealed that it is not that easy sometimes. However, the only way to overcome the discouraging thoughts, for Meg, is to try not to take herself - or anything - too seriously. "It helps to negate any self-consciousness I might feel about putting myself out on the internet. That, and I'm trying to get better about not reading comments. Some of the Redditors can get really mad."
With her comics, the artist is either trying to make somebody laugh or provide a relatable perspective; "if I can get a reader to either feel happier or less alone, my job's done. I'd prefer it if you'd all laugh though, I'm mostly tryna be funny out here."
Meg finds it very satisfying when people think that her content is either funny or relatable. While she would probably still doodle comics for herself, the support and reactions from her readers are what keep her illustrating. "I love being able to make someone laugh, and comics are a really accessible way for me to do that."
Whatever the artist is feeling passionate about gets turned into a comic. "Drawing out my feelings is a pretty cathartic experience for me; any time I'm feeling a strong emotion, whether it's happy or not, I often need to visualize it in some way in order to fully process it. Or just get it out of my brain in general."
When asked if Meg wanted to add anything for our readers about her art, she replied that "It's not much, but it's honest work".
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no, it feels like sleeping on thorns, fire, and stone when you try to sleep, then the best bed ever when you try to wake up.
Not even mentioning that it sure looks like that the main culprits try to deflect on the rather meager culprits in comparison, maybe in fear that we would somewhen force them to do their part, if we weren’t busy feeling guilty coz we forgot to turn the light of in that one room we didn’t use for an hour.
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I saw 16 on another page. I'm not saying u stole, but someone did. Couldve been the other person tho.
I saw 16 on another page. I'm not saying u stole, but someone did. Couldve been the other person tho.