Add Oil Comics

jasonli:

Illustrated part one of a tweetstorm by Zara Rahman on Twitter about the aftermath of the Manchester shooting (for @addoilcomics). Might do more if it’s well-received, but might also call it a night and stop as I got to practice my pencils and color pencils for a bit.
The full story is great though, and I’m sad I never got to draw the good bits. Be sure to read it.
Update: photoshopped the illustrations. (Still not perfect but better than before!)

margautshorjian:

a little comic about trauma with the meta ending nobody asked for

Many on Twitter rallied around hashtag #IAmAPreexistingCondition after news broke that Congressional Republicans passed the American Healthcare Act. As Mic puts it:

[it] strips the Affordable Care Act of many of its provisions, including its mandate that health insurance companies insure people with pre-existing conditions. It may lead to 24 million people losing their health insurance.

Most of the tweets are in opposition to the new healthcare act, but we’ve purposely selected voices from multiple sides of the political spectrum to give you all a sense of how the arguments are playing out on both sides, so to speak.

Adapted by @winnielim and @jasonli in response to the teen suicide problem in Hong Kong.

Read Winnie’s original, full-length essay.

Translated by Emily Wu.

Published by @addoilcomics.

This comic/animation was also published as a Medium series, and on Inmedia.

angelmilk09:

Nitáimixtsinaki, “I Braid,” is a short, wordless comic I made to illustrate and process the experiences of native girl children who have become victims of sexual assault. How do we reconcile our pain with our culture? How do we process the inter-generational trauma? How do wash away the feeling of disappointing our ancestors? It is not our fault, we are not to blame. Our bodies and minds are holy, and together, we can overcome. You are not alone.

Continuing our Black History Month celebrations with…

staff:

Add Oil Comics (@addoilcomics)
Originally posted by addoilcomics
Add Oil Comics explores social justice issues through the use of, well, comics. Some reblogged, some original, some inspired by submitted or found text. The one above illustrates a passage taken from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. See the full comic here.
CFBG Tips (@cfbgtips)
Originally posted by cfbgtips
One part young woman’s journey on how to find her “mystical Carefree Black Girl essence,” one part tips on how you can do the same. Wholly good.
The Revolutionary Times (@therevtimes)
Originally posted by therevtimes
The Revolutionary Times features two dudes discussing the things we all talk about with our friends: gentrification, worry and anger regarding the current presidential administration, Star Wars. Sometimes they’re time travelers, but usually they’re not. It’s a good read, and we suggest you start with their comics on Tumblr tag.
Follow these too:
Black Comics Chat (@blackcomicschat)—Not just comics (though they do have that), but also a space for Black people to talk with others about Black comics.
Black Action Figures and Comics (@blactionfiguresandcomics)—Fan art, action figures, movie stills, and more. Heavy on the reblogs, it’s a good reminder of the power of a curatorial Tumblr.
Thanks for celebrating Black History Month with us, Tumblr. Everything we’ve been highlighting here on the staff blog ultimately comes from you all. We couldn’t ask for better users.