Last week I had an awesome time catching up with some old Dunedin friends who have been road-tripping around the country with the Regeneration organisation. They are basically travelling around New Zealand talking to awesome people, making connections, and looking at some awesome social and environmental initiatives that are happening.
Plus they’re filming a bunch of rad people from the different regions, and they decided to film me. So yeh, I chatted about writing queer and trans comics, and what it means to me. It was really awesome, and I felt quite honoured to be a part of it all.
Here’s the vid:
Plus! I’m also going to be having a table at the Auckland Zine Fest in July and I’m keen to have heaps of queer and trans zines available for people to buy/peruse. If anyone wants to make some, then send it to me, I’d be happy to sell it for ya. Just flick me an email: s orchard (AT) ymail (dot) com (and yep, it’s a Y not a G).
Love this, thank you – 🙂 Mani
Thankyou – it was wonderful to spend some time with you last week, hope your return to Wellington was safe
Woohoo! Awesome film and awesome mahi. xxx Lani
YOU’RE awesome!
Awesome vid! I’m a sucker for anything involving a drawing table. Great interview too! Woohoo!
I am SOOOOOO excited about having a drawing table. You have no idea how wonderfully happy it makes me. 😀
sorry to be forced to leave such a silly, vacuous, comment, but here goes.
you are so stupidly sweet and i sent you infinite virtual hugs.
D’awwwwww virtual hugs gratefully accepted!!
I love your voice! 😀
Eeeep! Thanks!
Oh my goodness. You are adorable!
I love hearing what my favorite comics people sound like.
Haha yes… It’s a bit weird – I’m looking forward to my voice dropping, that’s for sure. But it makes me realise how think my kiwi accent is!
That is an awesome video. Love seeing the creative process and loved what you had to say.
Yay, yeh it definitely made me want to record doing the comic aaaalll the way through. I had such a fun time with the interview too – those regen kids are wickedness personified.
Aw, what a great video! I liked what you said about processing life through drawing. Also, I love your style.
It was a really good video but I was a little thrown by your voice because for some reason you sounded like Simon Amstell from Never Mind the Buzzcocks in my head…I think that may be because i think you’re both so adorable I want to squeeze you. But I still really liked the video and what you had to say! Positive things are good and when the world is a big bad scary place and I want to hide it’s web comics like yours that give me hope. Also thank you for educating me about queerdom and trans issues which I know you don’t have to do but I appreciate as it changed how I treat my son for the better. I am prepared now so that if my son turns out to be a daughter or gender queer or queer or any variation there of that i won’t screw it up too much.
I always knew I’d love him no matter what, but I also now have tools so when he gets older (he’s two) his father and I can teach him how to treat all people around him with respect and understanding. That sort of understanding and awareness is helped by people like you. So i just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for educating us ignorant masses while being charming and entertaining and freaking adorable (I still think you look like Simon Amstell)
(for the record I am queer…I like girls and one boy who I married and my husbands straight…kinda like Erica Moen but without being a super awesome cartoonist – my husband is even British)
I WISH I sounded like Simon Amstell! That’d be so amazingly awesome – I think you’re definitely trying to charm me by saying that I look like him, pffft – but I’ll take the compliment anyway!! Hoorah for being queer and like Erika!!