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Stone Fruits‼️
👁️💋👁️hello!
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me photocopying stone fruits porn at the copy shop
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idk how i missed these very kind words from a friend!!!
stone fruits is an incredibly personal, public vanity project that's a direct response to burn out. its been very restorative playing with a cast of characters that represent all the different ways i've felt about creating and artistic labor over the years.
the site feels like my own personal oasis. the strips aren't formatted for other socials, and it's trash on mobile by design. it's a destination to check out whenever you want to/remember, hopefully echoing a time when you would go to a site and just click around and get lost. idk how "successful" the total package is, but a nice part about shaking the rust off my hands and coming out of burn out is i don't really care!
so much of my brain power over the last decade has been used trying to contort ideas for various publishing houses' catalogues, navigating professional rejection with no agent to shoulder disappointment with, and still finding steam to carry on while working full time. i know it's not a unique experience and a lot of people do a lot more with a lot less! but stone fruits has been a pulpy, healing salve that's reignited a passion to create while also helping me examine my relationship to drawing and my ego.
all that to say! lol it's very heartwarming to know it's touching people, that's all you can really ask for :)
i wanna take a minute and talk about my friend coleman.
coleman and i have been buds for a long time! when we both moved to the same city we achieved a bond that many service workers do: that of mutual discounts. coleman was a barista across the street from where i was a bookseller, and we passed each other as many free/discounted books and coffees as we could get away with. i always felt i had the better deal, however, because while i got cheap lattes i also got a glimpse into what coleman was thinking about and working on.
"do you have any patricia highsmith" he'd text me, and i'd raid the mystery section and think what story is going to come from this? he got very into oskar schlemmer's Triadic Ballet and i started checking any books we got in about the bauhaus for new images and texting them his way, knowing i was going to see it reflected in art someday soon. because the thing about coleman, maybe my favourite thing about him (among many, many things) is the way he will pursue a set of interests and then synthesize them all into a work of art that is entirely new and entirely him and like nothing i've ever seen before.
coleman makes comics. you might have seen his art in steven universe issues, or on tapas, or here on tumblr (like this one, about creating a personal color palette for himself, which literally changed my life). most of them you haven't seen, however, which kills me. i've edited a number of graphic novel pitches for coleman and i can tell you the stuff he comes up with is GOOD. it's weird and queer and earnest and original, all of it, every time. i really hope y'all will get to see some of it someday. but my point is that you can see this one thing right now:
coleman has been working on stone fruits for months and as of january 1st it's updating every day. it's a love letter to newspaper comics and early webcomics. it's about losing the spark of creativity and having to keep going anyway, and queer communities and weirdos and going home. this thing is so lovingly crafted, from the hand-drawn buttons (which change on certain days) to the fact that the website is .net. No element was too small to be considered, and it has been a joy to watch coleman consider them.
i want coleman to find his audience. he deserves it, and so does the audience. read stone fruits.
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STONE FRUITS is 2 months old!!!
It's exciting to think the cadence of the strip is developing! Characters are interacting, days are passing, consequences are happening! It updates EVERYDAY, Sundays are full color, and sometimes theres a fun little, cheeky bonus!
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