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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.

Mutant Texas Review

Mutant Texas review

This is a good comic because it represents an example of two people who have worked on a lot of other peoples ideas and are animation and comics insiders spontaneously collaborating on something of their own design. There's a lot of indie comics out there but what makes this cool is that the creators already have a lot of experience on a more professional level than what you'd expect from a usual indie comic. Not that there's anything wrong with the way self published or solo artists and indie collaborations draw and produce their comics- what's interesting to me is reading an indie comic by creators who have experience in the animation and comics industry. If you don't see how this is different... I can't talk with authority because I'm not an insider but the way a big operation comic works , like Superman or something , is the company says were gonna have such and such a story., and they pick a writer and an artist to collaborate. I imagine its a production more like a movie in terms of creative vision stemming not from one person but from a collective. Now, that might sound bad to someone who likes more alternative comics a lot like myself but what's important is, these animators and career comic artists and writers have experience that you just don't get working alone. Again, I can't speak with authority but from what I've read of interviews and seen in comics, this is the case. They have a kind of experience that doesn't come from a solo mission, that comes from being told, "Hey , guy. I need you to draw specifically such and such a thing, by such and such a time, and then so and so is going to ink it. "
So that's why when these types of guys , these mercenaries of comics and animation, when they go rogue and do their own thing, its really cool to look at.

Elisa Carlson