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A Vekllei Comic
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āæ This article was featured in Issue #6 of the Atlantic Bulletin
Hi everyone,
“He not busy being born is busy dying,” ā thatās off a Bob Dylan bootleg. Iāve just finished my thesis and Iām busy being born again. Sometimes I feel like Iām busy dying. Drawingās been the way out for a long time now.
As of today Iām starting work full-time on a Vekllei comic called Atomic Modern. The front cover looks like a textbook. The name is not that interesting. Thatās okay ā apparently my honours in media didnāt do anything for my marketing ability, but this project is about celebrating mundanity and restraint. Tziporaās got a fag in her mouth but it isnāt lit. I feel like that a lot of the time. Itās a self-contained image.
Atomic Modern is about Tzipora and Vekllei. Itās about her friends and her memories and all the good and bad parts of her life. Itās about what went down in America and how you can justify living. Itāll have beautiful Vekllei landscapes and characters in muted colour. It will also include passages that act as a guide to Vekllei and society ā diagrams, infographics and footnotes. Itās also an escape from everything going on right now ā thereās good and bad in all stories, but at the end of the day Vekllei is a utopia.
I will publish pages here for free. Iāll collate them into chapters available exclusively to my patrons. Maybe some extra stuff too. Iām a good dad to my patrons. I already made a set of postcards and sent them out. Either way, youāll continue to see stuff here. This is exciting, isnāt it? This is a new chapter for me as an artist. Itās a vulnerable moment for me, because up until now itās just sort of been āposting on redditā. I donāt have a publisher, Iām not trained, Iām just some guy. But this is what Iāve always wanted to do, and Iām trying to get busy being born again.
There should be regular world posts here still. Thereās drawings I like to do that just donāt fit into a comic format. I think during weekdays Iāll work on the comic and on weekends Iāll do a painting. Weāll see how it goes.
Also, Iāll have a nice big wiki soon with multiple language support. Iāll let you know when itās done.
Letās start this again, with all that off my chest.
Hi, Iām Hobart. Iām busy getting born again.
Much love,
MelonKony
Be āpetticoatā.