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Lea Cooper
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I absolutely can't handle poppy season
4 panel watercolour and ink comic. Panel 1: Blood red drips down from the top of the comic panel against a blank white background. Black text reads "I don't want to see". Panel 2: An illustration of a paper poppy. The red is blotchy and bleeding out of the line drawing. The text continues "Any fucking poppies" Panel 3: A poppy pinned to someone's suit lapel. The red of the poppy is dripping down the suit. The text continues "Worn proudly on chests". Panel 4: Blood red droplets form a pool of red. A speech bubble appears over the top of the drawing "Blah blah...Never again...blah blah.". The comic caption concludes "While we watched genocide."
October 28, 2023 at 1:17 PM
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next in my series on Wellcome Collection's zines - comics zines and ways they are particularly cool and interesting wellcomecollection.org/articles/ZSl...
Neuroqueering comics
Researcher and zine-maker Lea Cooper considers how comic-zines use the distinctive qualities of zines to explore some of the complex connections between memory, autobiography, disability, neurodiverge...
wellcomecollection.org
November 2, 2023 at 8:05 AM
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These posters were created for the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2023 on the theme of 'Revolution'. You can find downloadable and printable versions on their website: www.mhfestival.com/explore/revo...
In the centre of the poster is a hand written large block text in black which reads ‘No One Way Works’. This quote is continued turning around the outside edges of the page, reading ‘It will take all of us shoving at the thing from all sides to bring it down - Diane di Prima.’ Around the central text is a border of 16 illustrations, which have a thin black outline, and are shaded in three shades of bright red. The illustrations are of: a razer blade; a bunch of Rosemary; a vial (like you would use for Oestrogen); a knotted rope; a pair of scissors; a crowbar; a wheatpaste brush; a balaclava; three round pills with smiley faces on; a spray paint can; a needle; a packet of prescription medications; bolt cutters;a lighter; a dildo; and a brick.
October 4, 2023 at 2:36 PM
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made a new comix zine for out of sight out of mind this year. It assembles/archives(?) some of my notes & drawings from the last 2 1/2 years of therapy, and considers them alongside the big box file of notes from my time in mh and probation services: www.gearsforqueers.co.uk/shop/p/thera...
A spread from 'therapy notes', a comix zine printed in black and red riso. The first page interweaves the lyrics from the mountain goats song up the wolves with a person bringing down a box file from a high shelf. The second page sees the person returning the box file to the shelf, and some images of a scanner, fire, a blender, and the box file casting a shadow over them that they are trying to ignore. The open zine sits on top of some pages from the zine, not entirely visible, that are also printed in black and red riso.
September 22, 2023 at 12:38 PM