See? I said I would be back someday! School is out so I am going to reclaim my smile and do this as much as I possibly can this summer. I really missed it. I think I left last year talking about a new comic venture. It failed miserably or better put, it evolved into something completely different.
This installment is based on an illustration I did for a client this past fall. A living example of why I sell usage rights and not copyrights. Since the picture already existed, I wrote to fit. After reading this installment, couple of my male friends asked what other secrets do I carry in my purse? Dudes? really? Broaden your horizons. (No pun intended.)
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Huh? Not making any sense? Although Artiste’s vignettes are non-linear, it can help to read the back story: • The Artiste Gullible back story. Of course you could just read them randomly, and trust that it will all come together at some point.
[text] In the future, a slave girl will usher in a second enlightenment by teaching this simple postulate; All the bloodshed initiated by men throughout history is a desperate grasp for understanding a power that they can never themselves possess.
Her doctrine espouses the belief that men will rent power, steal it, legislated it, and in all ways seek after it, but as soon as they assume the illusion of its mantle, they will trade the power away for the
reassuring companionship of a woman, its true source. Real power, she will instruct, lay within the calming tones of empathetic purls, and the gentle meek caresses of fingers across furrowed brows. Men are tools, she reasons, who simply need direction.
After the bloodless revolution, where men had so ignorantly pointed their swords, the woman learn to point their men, and the slaves of the third epoch become queens in a golden age of peace.
So glad you’re back! Love the expression and the beautiful eyes.
Thank you! It is good to be back. It’s been a struggle this past year. I am looking forward to some unrestricted drawing and writing.
Excellent, you’re back in business! Shame the other project didn’t work out as expected(I think?). Do we get to hear details?
Wow, they’ve gone back to using shackles in the future?
Also, love the little silhouettes in the corner.
Glad to have you back.
Yes, apparently in the future they take another stab at shackles AND slavery. (Although last week I saw a young woman dressed in black on a leash held by another woman?)
Its good to be back.