IT’S COMING.

Or rather, I am going to it. What kinds of things would you like me to bring for your purchase? Besides, obviously, zines.

<3 jb

Tags: Chicago, distro, fun times, Chicago Zinefest, fests, windy city, besties

Girl Gangs and Watercolors

I posted the pencil sketch of this before, here is a (possibly) finished version. It will be a postcard for Stranger Danger Distro once I figure out the formatting! This is the piece that’s based off the Wimmen’s Comic #7 cover.

<3 jb

Tags: Bash Back, fashion, fierceness, girl gangs, melinda gebbie, murder, painting, stranger danger distro, watercolors, wimmen's comix, zines

Curmudgeon on Etsy

To celebrate the 25th post on Curmudgeon (not counting guest comics), Foster and I are doing a sale on original artwork. Any Curmudgeon strip can be yours for only 25 dollars! If it’s not listed on Etsy just message or email me. These are not prints, these are originals, complete with blood, sweat, tears, and coffee stains.

Help us keep our lights on!

<3 jb

Tags: cheap art, Curmudgeon, etsy, original art, sale, shameless self-promotion, webcomic

Works in Progress

This is going to be a book cover for a swell small press:

This is going to be a postcard for one of my favorite distros:

It’s based on the cover of Wimmen’s Comix #7 drawn by Melinda Gebbie. I’m going to attempt to do it in full color even though it ain’t my forte.

jb

Tags: archives, book cover, community, distro, melinda gebbie, pay me for art, protest, stranger danger distro, wimmen's comix, yes i do take commissions, zines

I love penpals

I recently sent one of my penpals a copy of Interview Clothes and they sent this back:

Cutest!

JB

Tags: cutest, friends, i love mail, long distance friends, paper dolls, pen pals

Back from Epic Travels!

If you haven’t been watching, Curmudgeon has been updating its own damn self, while I eat donuts in Seattle with my sweetie.

Also, my review of the book Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant is up at The New Inquiry.

Happy fucking New Year!
JB

Tags: book review, Curmudgeon, donuts, lauren berlant, new years, no resolution, seattle, the new inquiry, travel

Call for Submissions: Doykeit Zine

After receiving some submissions and speaking with some invested folks, I realized that this project is bigger than Sassyfrass (see previous call) and deserves more time and space. Now it is its own zine, and you get more time to submit!

We are seeking submissions with a central theme of the cross sections of Jewish and queer identity, and how those identities might inform an anti-Zionist or Palestinian solidarity politic. Some organizing frames include the concept of “doykeit” or “hereness,” diaspora, assimilation, the rhetoric of “self-hate,” decolonization of Judaism, and experiences of queer identity as a Jew or in a Jewish context. Submissions should take the form of personal narrative, whatever mediums you want to use to express that. Any JPEGs should be black and white, high contrast and at least 300 dpi. The issue will be 1/2 size and black and white. Send submissions to sassyfrasscircus@gmail.com. The deadline is February 20th!

<3 jb

Tags: anti-Zionist, assimilation, compilation, diaspora, doykeit, galut, identity, jewish, Judaism, palestinian, queer, ritual, self-hate, solidarity, submissions, whiteness, zines

Get your own Interview Clothes paperdoll zine!

Featuring your two favorite lumpy zinesters! Pick up a copy on Etsy.



Interview Clothes is a cut and color paper doll zine by Jami Sailor and Jenna Bee, with 2 dolls and 10 outfits, in the tradition of American Girl magazine…and effigy dolls. Don’t cut our heads off! Jami says: “yes, my feet look like clubs. and my knees like cinnamon rolls.” JB says: “stick me in my union suit and pose me watching Roseanne reruns while guzzling black coffee.”

Tags: collaboration, comics, Jami Sailor, paper dolls, zines

Okay I think I like New York now.

A hazy and tiny picture of our “Youth in Recession” panel at the SHARE NYC conference this past weekend:

I had a chance to talk about starting and getting involved in projects when you don’t really have credentials, not waiting for permission, and basically hacking everything. I think there may be a video that will appear at some point. Up da punx!

Thief is the new Share,
JB

Tags: bourgeois, conferences, nyc, panels, parsons, recession, share, share nyc, shareable

Signal Boost: FSTR

My Curmudgeon collaborator, Foster, has started an Etsy shop. Right now he is selling these awesome bird stickers, each one is handmade and totally unique. I have a couple of them on my sketchbook and they are adorable. Also, all the proceeds go towards Foster’s top surgery.

Just in time for the holidays!

<3 JB

Tags: birds, Curmudgeon, cute, foster, fundraiser, handmade, shameless promotion, stickers, top surgery fund