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Prison Blog

In which Possum recounts his experiences as an offender in the system.

Possum Bones is autistic. He has identified as a dirty kid in the past, and he’s attended multiple rainbow gatherings. He has several years left to serve in the Washington Correctional system.

He has been making art since he could sit up. He communicates better in writing than speech. If you are interested in the experience of an autistic person doing prison time, check out his Prison Blog. If you are a fan of comic art, underground/outsider music, Lovecraft, Clarke Ashton Smith, Murakami, Cixui Liu, etc.

Sketch booking.

I was brainstorming ideas for ' the freak ' and I drew this awesme guy, he's got a super long face and a ploopy chin, and giant ears, his hair is really long and wispy, and he's got antlers and beady little eyes. He wears a black kimono, and coming out of the bottom, instead of legs, is the body of a slug. He's holding a long erhu which is balanced on an asian looking stool . He looks kind of like something out of a Kitaro comic. I've named him ' Basho ' after whoever basho was ( a poet ? ). Then I tried to get closer to the design I wanted for the freak, I wanted him to be very hairy and fucked up looking. He ended up being a sort of space elf with really thick dreads and long bony fingers and big gauges that give his elf ears a unique shape . I decided their band could be called ' Slug Wizard ' .

Elisa Carlson