Buppy on the Moon by Sean Mac
seanmac.com | @sugar.bro

Lulu Bourdieu | She’s Got the Gene | Drag Race @seizuresandpleasers | @sadgirl_prose | venmo @lulubourdieu

Hi, my name is Sean Mac and I like making comics that make people smile :). My comics range from the cute n cuddle to the creepy n crazy. I'm inspired by the DIY comics scene and making comics for risograph printing.

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Remain by Ash H.G.
Ashhg.com | @ashleehg

Ash H.G. is a painter/illustrator & comic book artist/writer living and working in Chicago, IL. His recently completed graphic novel East District is set to be released in Fall 2021.

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I Dreamed of Bowie by Carlos Luis Sanchez Becerra
tarmajenye.wordpress.com | @majenye

Carlos Luis Sanchez Becerra, (b. 1987) based in Carora, Venezuela is an interdisciplinary artist who researches Caribbean identity, queerness, folk art, and syncretism in the XXIst century. He uses painting, comics, performance, social media, and music to articulate his evolving speech. "Fanzinestesia," shown at the Espacio Proyecto Libertad, was a project in which the observers were able to insert themselves in his narratives and stories wearing his mask-sculptures while looking at Becerra's comics, in which Venezuelan national heroes have sex with dictators or dictators are portrayed as colorful animals in a meme. Inside the exhibition, participants left themselves outside to, for a moment, believe in pink crocodiles and submarine unicorns. Becerra's work has been shown at Non for profits and museums all over the world including MCA Zulia, MoMA Capital District, MoMA Maracaibo, Museum Juan Astorga Anta, Espacio Projecto Libertad, ABRA Caracas, German Embassy of Venezuela, Barquisimeto City Council, Ps122 New York, and others. He won the Hispanoamerican Young Artist award from the Alicante Council in Spain and the Corpozulia Biennial in Venezuela.

I Dreamed of Bowie by Carlos Luis Sanchez Becerra painted by Alonso Galue
www.agalue.com @a.galue

Alonso Galue (Venezuelan, b. 1994, Chicago Based) BFA at University of Los Andes, is a multidisciplinary artist whose experimental use of traditional painting and sculpture articulates speeches on labor, existential crisis, and totalitarianism. Pulitzer Prize Jerry Saltz commented on Instagram Galue’s work is “a strong voice of the future.”

I dreamed of Bowie is a comic book project made by Carlos Luis Sanchez Becerra and Alonso Galue. The outline was drawn by Sanchez Becerra in Carora, Venezuela and later painted by Galue in Chicago, Illinois. This is their first attempt in creating four handed works based on their friendship, distance, and effects of globalization in the young latinoamerican population.

In the work David Bowie tells the story of Lou Reed’s death with a surrealistic plot twist that shows the dexterity of microstories that latinoamerican writers are known for.

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When I Was Ten by Donna Kubica
twitter.com/ripripred1

I'm in my mid twenties and I've always adored art and story. I went to uni for creative writing and constantly did art as a hobby through my life. Comics are a happy marriage of two of my favorite things that I love to do from time to time. I started drawing comics about things that were happening that had some weight on my mind. My attempt at self-art therapy, or like journaling but with art. This is one of those "journals" - a pretty-much-verbatim conversation I had in the car with my father. The mundane combined with tragic felt almost artful in itself.

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My Turn by Sonali Kolhatkar
SonaliKolhatkar.com | @sonalikolhatkar

Sonali Kolhatkar is an artist whose work focuses on identity and being seen in a world that invisibilizes women of color. She is also award winning progressive journalist, host and producer of Rising Up With Sonali, writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute, amateur musician and mother of two. The race between virus and vaccine has consumed the world as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage societies and nations. But just as money and power are stratified between the haves and the have-nots, our vaccine distribution system was rolled out chaotically and I found myself among the masses of the desperate have-nots clawing my way into a system meant to exclude me so I could obtain safety - and clarity.

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4th by Jay Dearien
porcadis.com

Jay Dearien is a former database engineer who lived for many years in Tokyo, Japan. He began regular web postings of comics in 2013. He's written over 1.2 million words, including the novel, "Between Laughing and Crying," since 2011 in National Novel Writing Month. He's been an ML for NaNoWriMo since 2014. In this comic, a young man, Casey, dives into the depths of his own psyche, where his two spiritual tourguides, Louise Terrence and Shiela the Mermaid, burst into a parody of a familiar song to explain the crazy surroundings.

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BLAH by Michael Abcede
abcedeart.com | @abcedeart

I am a visual artist and musician looking to amuse and irritate! I draw absurd/strange/corny cartoons for the amusement of very few people with the aim of achieving world peace.

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Slackerverse Ramen by C Trevor Manika
@dotofthec

I am a skateboarder and interdisciplinary artist from the southside of Chicago. I work in the service industry and love printmaking. I am currently working on a book called 'Coping' which is a collection of interviews, illustrations and writings from people based in the communities of the service industry, skateboarding, and music industry, and how all these groups have dealt with covid. When it comes to my comics my work is derivative of loveable losers from my life. I compile certain aspects of these people into my characters, giving each of them all strong personalities.

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It Is Okay / Todo Bien
by Gretchen Hasse & Camilo Gonzalez
Translated by Alonso Galué
gretchenhasse.com | @gbhasse

Gretchen Hasse is a storyteller working in comics, collage, public art, and moving images. She curates with Agitator Co-operative Gallery, which she cofounded in 2017. Gretchen is drawn to stories and images that describe perseverance through pain, and she knows that a dark sense of humor, a keen eye for social criticism, and the diligence to work for change are essential tools for survival. I wrote It Is Okay after I began sequestering with my partner Camilo, late in 2020. He was born in Havana, and his family left in the early years of the revolution. Camilo has vivid memories of his life on the island. A few years after his family settled in Chicago, he became part of several punk bands, and lived vivid stories of a different sort. The comic was my way of stringing some of these stories together, and also a way to figure out more about a person I love. Special thanks to Agitator member Alonso Galué for translating.

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Emit’s Ghost by Ernest J. Ramon / Archangelo Crelencia

Archangelo Crelencia and Ernest J. Ramon are comic book writers and illustrators who are also really close friends. Emit's Ghost is the saga of a mouse astronaut and his friends as they face the hardships of interstellar travel and the loss of loved ones.

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James Mosher
MosherShow.threadless.com | @MosherShow

James Mosher is a Chicago based muralist/cartoonist originally from Clearwater, FL. He primarily works in a comic book inspired painting style that can best be described as character-driven pop art. He also enjoys watching cartoons and petting dogs.

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UNI the Donkey Unicorn by Edgar Reynoso

I grew up in Summit, Illinois. I am a web and graphic artist who created a thriller. The main protagonist, UNI the Donkey Unicorn, is created for Earth by the Universe's creator in order for UNI to use reality warping abilities to mentally torture misguided people and drag them through the pain they inflict on others, and will cause an emotional shock and humble their perspective of life. UNI the Donkey Unicorn is inspired by a couple stories I heard as a child. Apparently, a relative of mine was going to night clubs too much. One night, he met a girl at a dance. She invited him to go back to her place. He asked her to wait, because he needed to get his bike. When he mounted his bike, he noticed that she had a head start. He pedalled as fast as he could, but could not catch up to her. Suddenly, something grabbed his front tire and flipped him over. He was so shaken up by the event that he stopped going to night clubs altogether. The second story is of another relative of mine that was frightened at a bar and avoided them for a long time. Apparently, he was drinking so much at a bar that he saw a humanoid donkey sitting at the table next to him.

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Ashes by Archangelo Crelencia
@ashescomicbook

Archangelo is a full time designer / part-time comic artist. Ashes is a supernatural, neo-noir, crime thriller that takes a gritty look at the afterlife and those who operate in the shadows of both sides.

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Mata Hari by Christina Hirko
@chirko21

After obtaining a masters in Fine Arts at Texas A&M, Christina continued her travels to Zhengzhou, Henan, China for a year where she taught. Influenced by authors, such as Paulo Coehlo, and artists like Mihaly Zichy, she currently is exploring art that embodies the sexual and sensual, with autobiographical elements and a photographical realism. Margaretha Geertruida, a "femme fatale" who in her own pursuit to use others, was used as a scapegoat and executed, labeled a 'German Spy' by the French Government despite an abysmal lack of evidence or case against her. She was a famous dancer, revered for her 'exotic' performances despite them being entirely made up and only minimally influenced by her time overseas. She reinvented herself as 'Mata Hari'.

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The Mighty Mammoth by Andrew Vickers
@andrew_the_rose_artist

Simple Traditional 2d artist. My work is about nature and wildlife, the natural beauty of the world.

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Río Beltrán
blog.amoraslucha.info | @amoraslucha

A brown migrant nonbinary cuir artist working on learning what it means to be rooted in community and autonomous grassroots work, to lean into a life of imagination and courage through multiple mediums. I mostly do illustration, comics, and other mixed media art, with a focus on social issues, anti-capitalism/imperialism, migrant queer non-cis experience, migration, mental health and neurodiversity, food, fantasy.... Exploring/learning what decolonization, abolition and transformative disability justice, and other ways we are seeking/have seeked collective liberation entail, how to embody in action and thru my art.

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Men and Sticks by Luna Rail
lunarail.vsble.me | @lunaxrail

I'm a Chicago based artist and co-founder of Agitator a Co-operative Gallery here in Chicago. This is pretty much the extent of my cartooning career. I made them back in, I think 1992. I made them for a friend whose birthday was coming up as something of a birthday present. He was an interesting, multilingual guy from Arkansas who would make promises to beat people and things with sticks when he got upset or faux upset. I printed these out on card stock. Put postage on them and his address and put them in envelopes. I sent the envelopes to friends of mine in an array of places around the world. So, on his birthday he got this series of postcards from a man in Quebec asking about his girlfriend in French, two women in Rome who beckoned him back to a romantic trieste underneath the pines in regional Italian, from a man in rural Alamance County NC quoting bible verses about snakes (Paul maybe) with misspellings, and others. Never made comics again. Don't know why. It was fun.

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Kaiju by Pascal Saint-Clair
pascalstudio.net | @pascalsaintclair

Pascal Saint-Clair is a fantasy illustrator, comic book artist, graphic novel illustrator and writer. With a previous long existence in the videogame industry, the present focus is on illustration or artwork alongside design work. Primary influences are artists Hans Ruedi Giger and Geof Darrow. The attention in illustration is primarily a high amount of detail and contrast, as well as an effort to captivate audiences whenever writing is being created. These ventures are enjoyable whether for personal projects as well as for any client and their requirements. The work is futuristic, dark, dystopian and influenced by American as well as European comic books and graphic novels. A high amount and level of detail is one of the values here, as well as efforts to tell a compelling story.

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We’re Going On This Vacation! by Lauren Hennessy
@lhennessy34

During the COVID-19 Pandemic, my family caved into my mothers demands to go on a vacation despite the Travel Ban.

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