✨ Iris Jay ECCC #S-13 ✨ @irisjaycomics@mastodon.social

#INTRODUCTIONS HELLO, my name is Iris Jay and I've been posting comics online for a little over a decade now. I'm a full-time freelance cartoonist and illustrator, but in my free time I also enjoy cooking, reading and thrift store diving.

My queer cyberpunk webcomic: http://crossedwires.irisjay.net

My old supernatural religious webcomic that folks still like: http://epiphany.irisjay.net

My podcast with @itsnero :
http://guttermouthing.com

Portfolio:
http://irisjay.net

Store:
http://store.irisjay.net

Our cat Reese has taken to falling asleep while balancing on this sawhorse whenever we’re working at our desks and what ARE cats, HONESTLY https://mastodon.social/media/oT2S4b30i9XnyDLvYEI

like. the comic is SO WEIRD. this show? the weirdness gets filed out in little sprinkles mixed in with bland prestige tv filler. (what’s up, sinister heterosexual relationship. how ya doin, fridged old flame ex-girlfriend. how’s tricks, superfluous fight scene that was added bc the writers realized they couldn’t make a “superhero” tv show without at least a LITTLE fighting.) idk. it’s fine but it could be MORE

This is why I never understand why some people regard live action film as the end-all be-all Ultimate Art Form. They’re so ungainly and constrained by what’s possible within monetary limits. UA is worth watching, but I’d say folks will get a lot more out of it if they read the comics first

currently we’re halfway through. while this show is fun and decently weird and has some wonderful character background that isn’t in the comic, it has the same problems that I have with a LOT of film adaptations of comics:
1. It takes entirely too long to convey plot and characterization that the comics portray very efficiently, and
2. The budget just isn’t capable of rendering stuff as cool as what’s in the source material

*squints at a poorly laid out indesign document* more like lorem ipsum dolor shit on it, am i right folks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V41uP2T8ZFo excited to announce that I'm now a space opera by Justice. no more questions at this time, please

today i learned that the person who designed the one "lesbian pride" flag you see everywhere with the big kiss mark on it is actually racist, biphobic and a TERF. source here along with a nifty idea for a replacement flag: https://medium.com/@lydiandragon/a-lesbian-flag-for-everyone-cef397b89459

which is good to know, although it kind of fucked up my design idea for one of the stickers i was gonna make for ECCC

this is the comic i hinted at last year back when it was a furry comic, btw. it's been stuck in the pipes for THAT long. BUT IT'S COMIN' OUT REAL SOON

SNEAKY PEEK: front and back cover concepts for Double Blind, the new series i'll be debuting at ECCC and posting online shortly afterward

initially putting 21+ instead of 18+ on these was a typo, but now i'm like... hmm. Mature Readers Are Emphatically Suggested

roses are red
bamboo is hollower
i'm so good at shitposts
i cracked 2K followers (ON TWITTER, though 770 is also a very respectable number on here)

hallway with chilled bird and spatial corruption https://mastodon.social/media/3zsAWkEokDTeO2Tl6M4

Roses art red
Cider art hot
Mine own pussy poppeth.
Jealous thine doth not?

Roses are red
Gelato is cool
Far Side: lumpy objects
Caption “Cow Tools”

Roses are red
This party’s sedated
“The cake is a lie”:
Geeks, gamers located

Roses are red
I open palm slam
Who can escape from
Space prison? I can.

this has gotta be the dumbest one yet

Roses are red
Compare things with style
Drake frown hand flat
Drake point finger smile