benchilada | PLUG IT! PLUG IT REAL GOOD! (Reply)

Written last night, at Too Early a.m.

PLUGS, PART THE GAWDAMNED FIRST: The Visual Arts Edition.

And no, this isn’t even all the Visual Arts plugs. I’m only one man, and it’s after 2am, and I’m not even drunk. Your plug not here? Simmer, champ, this is an incomplete list

Let’s get this shit going!

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So, imagine a fat stack of the best cartoonists in the land kicking out ~~krush~~ phat grooves every freaking week. Now stop wasting your time imagining it, ‘cause that shit is right here. 3-2-1…

act_i_vate!!!

I mean, shit, whether Dean "man_size" Haspiel’s Billy Dogma is explaining his tears after protecting his dame:

…or Michel “zegas” Fiffe’s protagonist is having a hard time pulling himself together:

…or Leland “purvision” Purvis’s characters is showing us the ways of the world with nary a word between them:

…they ain’t let me down yet. And I don’t reckon they will do so anytime soon. Twelve creators, twelve creations. S’where it’s at.

I recommend friending ALL the creators, as they're all incredible.

Look, just read the community’s front page, ‘cause I can’t do ‘em any more right than they does themselves.
That...made sense when I wrote it.

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While a healthy mother was giving birth in a sparkly-clean hospital room, down the street that woman’s cousin was poppin’ out her baby on a dirty motel room bed.

And that kid, they named that kid de_act_i_vate

It ain’t a rip-off, it’s a tribute, it’s dancing to a different drummer, it’s…

I mean, maybe hebrewgod is telling a story so beautiful he just had to call it:

Or bobo_dreams is rocking is primo autobiographical comics:

The fact remains that they aren’t gonna let you down, neither. I mean, they got their shit together.

It’s for shit like siliconneedle’s SPACE SUCKS that I ain’t got no words:

Their output may be a little less than Act-I-Vate’s, but you can smell the same drive comin’ off of ‘em.
Again, if you like something you see there, friend the creator, too. Well worth your time.

Get on it.

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Beautiful girl lives in a beautiful place and takes beautiful pictures.

karmabreeze is a photographer masquerading as a bank teller. She show and sells her stuff over at High Desert Arts, but it also makes appearances in her regular LJ. Oh, and she kicks ass.

Whether it’s desert beauty:

Or the Desert Beauty herself:

…her pics poke your insides until you’ve got no choice but to succumb.

Enjoy her journal, love her pics, and for heaven’s sake, BUY SOME!!!

Us starving artists gotta stick together.

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“I really should add a disclaimer to all of these strips: This comic does not claim to be "funny" nor should the reader expect it to be so. The reader should also not expect the strip to make any "sense" in any traditional way. The image quality, and furthermore the readability level, of each strip is intentional. No refunds, exchanges, or apologies. All question, comments, and concerns can be left under the cast iron bloodhound that sits next to the door.”

So reads the message above one of ericfmyers’s deliciously dilapidated comic strips.

Myers takes his own newspaper comics from another dimension and roughs ‘em up like they’ve been sitting in Crazy Cat Lady’s apartment for a dozen years. The technique is incredible, and like he says, they’re aren’t always “funny’ but they’re always “good.”

All the comics are also on his webpage at SMS.

It’s a beautifully surreal world he’s letting us visit. Book a trip now.

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Jeremy "cleanskies" Dennis may or may not have a man’s name, but she’s always a woman to me.

Her LJ is frequently quite funny, and has a higher bug-encounter-per-entry ratio of anybody else’s that I know. Oh, and…

She also draws the awesomeness and makes minicomics and has her thing called theweeklystrip and she’s awesomeness. For example:

She just wrote an onine Primer in Basic Goose, of which this is the title page:

And minicomics!!!

You want in on this awesome, I assure you.

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riotmod is on drugs. The good kind.

Leave It To Jesus!, a comic of dubious moral value, is hystericalisms. There’s Jesus, a fuzzy Darth Vader, the personification of Robitussin, two guys named Steve who are NOT Don Johnson and Tom Cruise…well…

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jimmahgee says I've already mentioned his stuff enough.
I say Jimmy Gardner needs to shut his cock hole.

Really, his Great Race stuff is the awesome:

And his comic jam with

jamtorkberg is fab:

His adventures of Wee Jim are great, and so are many other things about him, except his ability to SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP.

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robotaday : Every day, there is a robot. Do I need to spell this shit out for you?

Usually he makes the robots, sometimes others do.

Two of my favorites):

And he did this:

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Can’t forget Jamie Dee Galey. Can’t forget Jamie Dee Galey.

Lord knows I've tried to...

I…just…look, just read this General Spite comic by himynameisjamie:

And check out this t-shirt he designed, which I bought one..of…this sentence is ballsed-up.

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tiny_monster and her comics are so cute they practically kick you in the balls/ovaries. Politely.

Jessica McLeod is not a tiny little girl, as she often draws herself. She is made of awesome and barbed wire and marshmallow fluff.

And when you get there, look for Professor Bones. He’s a stand-up fellow.

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"Budda loves Jesus. Ohhh...and Jesus loves Buddha."
*throws coin in ocean and waves at it.*
"Now I'll always know where it is."

You may go to hell for reading

bof_comic, but it'll be worth it.

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_faroth_ is awesome.

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"So I decided to remix it by changing Fred's dialogue in each strip -- and, as it appears in the hateful right-wing tabloid The Daily Mail, I figured I might as well make his owners sexually deviant repressed middle-class folk (it's their target audience, after all) and Fred himself became the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, whom the Daily Mail regards as something of a liberal, but it's close enough."

And such is the world of

fredbasset upfucked, mocking the world's most unfunny comic.