PORK-PIE

Homo-kink cartoonist & misanthrope.

Illustration showing a group of cartoon characters. From left to right are: a drag queen in revealing leathers, a dinosaur in a lab coat, a naked man with two angry-looking monkeys holding onto his leashes, a rugged woman in a ball cap, a very tall insect-like alien, a happy muscular leather daddy, and a small cube-shaped robot. The backdrop is teal-coloured sky with a few stars.

I posted this Frank Bottom sketch on my Cara account a year ago. ONE FUCKING YEAR AGO. I've been so wrapped up in how fucked up the world is getting, and being unemployed for 18 months, that I just ended up putting this aside for a while and never came back.

It's been very difficult for me to work on personal stuff since the pandemic peaked and then just… never went away. We've seen that public health has been decimated everywhere, a further symptom of letting far-right ideologies creep their way into governments and take over, abolishing science, fuelling racism and transphobia, normalizing the live-streaming of a genocide, and generally just dumbing down the population who just can't afford to live or eat anymore. How low can we go?

The story of these characters has been unfolding in my mind however, and I really need to get back to doing it. In many ways, what's been going on is influencing its world-building. I'm thinking of doing it as a simple 8-fold zine comic, and just dropping them around town.

What will this turn into a year from now though? Will I act?

 

“I feel like we are nearing the end of times. We humans are losing faith in ourselves.” Hayao Miyazaki's thoughts on an artificial intelligence

 

BBC News Staff Expose Channel’s Pro-Israel Agenda

 

“Israel's Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza Revealed Through Evidence and Analysis”

 

Photo of coffee mug with the following words printed on it: "Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life". With a line drawn through the words: "never work a day in your life". Which are replaced instead with the words: "work super hard all the time with no separation or any boundaries and also take everything extremely personally". Found on Bruce Sterling's Tumblr

 

I'm watching a live-stream from Al Jazeera of thousands of missiles being fired between two nuclear nations, Iran and Israel. This is horrific.

Listen to Noura Erakat talk about the hypocrisy of international law.

 

“This Card is an Abortion,” read a handful of business cards distributed by Mixl Laufer, a DIY biohacker, at a hacking conference in Queens Friday. Embedded in the cards are three doses of misoprostol, a medication that safely and effectively induces an abortion when properly used.

Link to Vice article

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One of the best SCTV skits ever.

 

Frank Bottom title card

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Oh I like this.

The Rowdies included many owners of distilleries, bars and brothels, and represented most of what the city was, especially as an outpost along the railroads. They existed in direct opposition to the Moral Party, which called for temperance and chastity. The two parties were also said to differ on approaches to civil engagement, and so where the Rowdies were the party of militant disorder, the Moral Party promoted law and order.

Source: Free and Rowdy Party – Wikipedia