Hi Zoe, i have been a fan of your work for a while. I remember going to yaletown roundhouse minicomic fair just to spend $$ on your work. I still have the t shirt you designed and your prints. Recently i started to also draw my own comics and i thought about you and how you influenced me greatly. I admired how you quit your lawyer job just to draw. And now reading this i understand how you feel. But here i am, a human, still reading your comic. I hope you are well and taking care of yourself. 🌸
Oof. It's so hard to be an artist right now, and share true pieces of yourself. If it helps, they are just as needed as ever - if not more. I've been having similar feelings, and this post is helping me to clarify that!
Zoe, I think you have captured how so many artists feel right now. This comic hits home for me as I feel that same way when it comes to sharing work in a space makes it seem impossible to reach and connect with people. Furthermore it feels worse when you have been in a space that used to create community through sharing and provided a sense that creating your art mattered. I know I have these same doubts and feelings but I am glad to see in your comic that you have a supportive partner. I not only love your comics for the content for the energy you capture in your beautiful scribbled linework. It isn’t easy to simply the world into such emotional yet communicative drawings and you are amazing at it. Thank you for sharing this and all of your work as you are an incredible artist.
Hard relate. I'm drawing for my version of her, who wanted--ached!--to draw for so, so painfully long. This was before the social media machine and algorithm monster, and there were problems aplenty back then: "comics" meant the cape wearers, drawn by pretty much exclusively by male people. No room for me! But that little version of me waited, and now, algorithm monster be damned, I'm making comics. Hopefully other people like 'em, but I'm making them for that little Me. Thanks for this excellent reminder, Zoe.
Hi Zoe, i have been a fan of your work for a while. I remember going to yaletown roundhouse minicomic fair just to spend $$ on your work. I still have the t shirt you designed and your prints. Recently i started to also draw my own comics and i thought about you and how you influenced me greatly. I admired how you quit your lawyer job just to draw. And now reading this i understand how you feel. But here i am, a human, still reading your comic. I hope you are well and taking care of yourself. 🌸
Oh I feel this!
This hits very close to home.
Oof. It's so hard to be an artist right now, and share true pieces of yourself. If it helps, they are just as needed as ever - if not more. I've been having similar feelings, and this post is helping me to clarify that!
You're the single greatest inspiration for my ongoing "Year of Art". Not only your recent work. Everything.
It requires a certain kind of courage to allow oneself to share life's little moments and I learned that from you. Thank you!
Relatable…
Zoe, I think you have captured how so many artists feel right now. This comic hits home for me as I feel that same way when it comes to sharing work in a space makes it seem impossible to reach and connect with people. Furthermore it feels worse when you have been in a space that used to create community through sharing and provided a sense that creating your art mattered. I know I have these same doubts and feelings but I am glad to see in your comic that you have a supportive partner. I not only love your comics for the content for the energy you capture in your beautiful scribbled linework. It isn’t easy to simply the world into such emotional yet communicative drawings and you are amazing at it. Thank you for sharing this and all of your work as you are an incredible artist.
I am here for comics like this, from real people, about real stuff, no matter how small or silly. Keep doing this. Love!
Hard relate. I'm drawing for my version of her, who wanted--ached!--to draw for so, so painfully long. This was before the social media machine and algorithm monster, and there were problems aplenty back then: "comics" meant the cape wearers, drawn by pretty much exclusively by male people. No room for me! But that little version of me waited, and now, algorithm monster be damned, I'm making comics. Hopefully other people like 'em, but I'm making them for that little Me. Thanks for this excellent reminder, Zoe.
Thanks for writing this. I relate <3
So good!