Mariel Ashlinn

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This looks amazing!

Thank you! I’d love to know more about what you’re doing too!

A couple more interview slots available for UK based #zine makers.

Give me a shout if you're interested in more information and please share if you know someone suitable.

#zines #zineresearch #perzines

The cover spread from a one page zine printout. The left (back cover) features images of a scale and gavel, with notes on First Amendment and filming rights, and the advice to “shut the fuck up.” On the right is the cover, a megaphone with the title text “PROTEST SAFELY.” Behind it are faceless protestors. The subtitle notes, “A brief collection of tips from around the internet.”

A spread from one page zine printout. On the left is an illustration of a protestor with the title “What to Wear,” including a helmet, goggles, ear plugs, gloves, a mask, a backpack, and layers/long sleeves/pants. Each have additional notes explaining their use. On the right is “What to Bring,” featuring illustrations of a backpack, money, water bottles, a mask, a granola bar and bag of trail mix, a first aid kit, folded shirt and pants, and an ID, with “DIY Defense” listed underneath it showing one protestor using a luggage case, one holding a trash can lid, and one using an open umbrella as a shield.

A spread from one page zine printout. On the left is “Protect Your Identity,” advising to cover up identifying features, avoiding photography of protesters, deactivating biometric phone-unlocking tools, and writing emergency contact and counsel numbers on your arm. On the right is “Be Like Water,” the motto of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and the text “BEWARE THE BAIT” with images of a palette of bricks and a masked man holding a crowbar toward a protestor with a sign, “Psst, free crowbar?” encouraging the reader not to engage with traps and undercover agents.

A spread from one page zine printout featuring the hazards of protest opposition, including tear gas, rubber bullets, and LRAD sound cannons and flash bangs. Caution tape images accompany the text explaining the dangers of each, how to flush out eyes that have been maced/etc, and how to extinguish a gas canister with a traffic cone.

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️

toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

"But Mariel, I thought you were in the middle of drawing a graphic novel..."

I HAVE A PROBLEM OKAY?

I came up with an extremely clever PhD thesis title so now I guess I have to finish writing the rest of the proposal...

LinkedIn needs an eye-roll reaction for posts/comments.

“This label was written by AI”

Don’t worry, we can tell.

I actually did just get picked for an anthology (!!!) but I don’t always, and there are loads of festivals I’ve never been able to get a table at - keep making stuff!

If you don't believe in your product/vision/organization enough to properly invest in it, why should anyone else?

One of the things about AI art and copy is that it makes your business/organization look stingy at best. If you can't even afford the creative how can you be trusted to deliver a quality version of whatever you're advertising? You probably can't and we can tell.

Sometimes you won't get picked for an anthology or to table at an event but you should still keep making comics and zines. Even if they don't pick you they can't stop you. Do it out of spite!

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if you feel like other artists in your field are your rivals and not your peers you belong to the other side of the picket line

If I'm just doing the art I aim for £90-100/page

For self-authored projects I have basically given up on being paid and now just hope that the crowdfunder will cover the printing costs.

Thank you friend!

I have some work in this alongside some amazing artists!

This is worth 15 minutes of your day 👓

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Hand drawn poster for We Really Like Her!'s upcoming screening of MARY JANE'S NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE and I WAS A TEENAGE SERIAL KILLER, two films by Sarah Jacobson. Event takes place April 10 at 6:30 at the Revue Cinema, is sponsored by Hollywood Suite, co-presented by Inside Out, and with prizes from Letterboxd.

Wish there was a feminist counterpart to CLERKS? There *is* and we're screening it at the Revue Cinema in April!! 👀

On April 10, join us for MARY JANE'S NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE. revuecinema.ca/films/we-really-like-her-mary-janes-not-a-virgin-anymore-i-was-a-teenage-serial-killer-double-feature/

Surely not!

Correction: I just looked at the email from November (currently on the waitlist) and it says that due to “unprecedented demand” they can’t even give an estimate of how long it will take.

The waitlist to renounce US citizenship is currently over a year long…

Art & Courage, A guide to sustaining a creative path Since its release in 1993, Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland has become an underground classic helping artists across various disciplines persevere through uncertainty and self-doubt and h...

ART AND COURAGE may be just the comic you need to read right now (and the Center for Cartoon Studies can always use your support).

I literally ran here to see if anyone else saw it!

A photograph of a notepad showing a black and white drawing of a song thrush

Wednesday Morning: Noisy Song Thrush (which I reported to the @wtscotsocial.bsky.social)