Meg O'Shea

MEG O'SHEA

Korean adoptee maker of comics and pictures.

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@muftidays drew him, @safdarnama n me all cute cos

@muftidays drew him, @safdarnama n me all cute cos we'll be doing a panel about autobio comics, the cutest comic genre of all, at Addi Road Writers' Fest this weekend.
I am straight up shitting myself, but looking forward to seeing so many of the other talks too. So maybe it's not all bad. More info via @addiroad website.

Hey mates. Got a 10-pager about my birth family se

Hey mates. Got a 10-pager about my birth family search, international adoption culture, and barriers faced by adoptees trying to access their histories in the latest @thenib magazine - the “Secrets” issue. With beautiful cover art by @hirosemaryhello, this issue’s got a bunch of great stuff that blew my mind and sometimes made my heart hurt. If you want to grab a copy you can get it for now at either a digital or print subscriber level through The Nib website. ⁣⁣
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Big, big thanks to the coupla folks who let me include parts of their stories, and to The Nib for letting me put together words and pictures about this stuff.⁣
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#comics #adoption #adopteevoices

Aforementioned rocky start to my trip a couple of

Aforementioned rocky start to my trip a couple of weeks back.

I'd originally written narration to go with this. Maybe I'll rework it with text later.

#probsnottho #drawing #comic #diarycomic #3095

👉 [Part 1/2] 👈 Tigers of the Korean Penins

👉 [Part 1/2] 👈

Tigers of the Korean Peninsula
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Made for big chonky #risograph anthology "Immediately Before the End of Everything and Other Encounters With Nature", edited by @fionnmccabe and printed by n available thru @pinchpress.⁣⁣
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#comic #drawing #korea #tiger #history #labour

Hello friends. A slightly less naughty version of

Hello friends. A slightly less naughty version of a comic I originally made for @blueprint.comics' "Meet Me in the Pit" #1 is part of a lil' ziney extra with the very hefty Jan/Feb issue of @frankiemagazine (beautiful issue cover by @coffinbirth) out now! The zine contains work by @claudinsky, @liskfeng, @toiletfeelings, @jesskittyparker, @melstringer and freakin' @helllllenjjjjjo. Holy shit. Check it out if you want! #comics #istheshadowtoomuch

#drawing #comic #diarycomic #shit

#drawing #comic #diarycomic #shit

A lil’ late, but hey! Stoked to say that my very

A lil’ late, but hey! Stoked to say that my very orange comic/letter to my Korean mum, “Pyeongtaek” has been shortlisted by the Comic Arts Awards of Australia (@ledger_awards)! Thank you so much to the selection committee. It’s a real honour to see my piece alongside the work of others I admire so much.

Man, it feels like an absolute lifetime ago that I made it though. I was still rushing clean up the linework and colour it on the same day I was meant to present it at the first @readtome_ of 2021 - coincidentally the launch of @safdarnama’s incredible and also-shortlisted “Still Alive”, and the first irl one I’d been to since leaving for Korea. After a few days of compulsively drawing in an attempt to make something that could be a full stop at the end of the previous two years (it was unfortunately actually the start of an ellipsis), I ended up turning up to read on about three hours of sleep. But it was a good night. @muftidays, @bernard.caleo, @daily_crispy and @claudinsky read. So did Safdar’s friend Asif, sharing the section of “Still Alive” in which his story features. @patgrantart presented the Graphic Storytellers at Work Report too, which was a ray o sunshine during a particularly shitty day in hotel quarantine. Beers were drunk and good chats were had. It was a great way to get reoriented after getting back, a great memory to have during the lockdown that would follow a few months later, and a great thing to be reminded of now every time I look at Pyeongtaek’s wobbly lines and rushed lettering. So cheers again. Like, just in general, cheers. WWWOOOOOO (Last pic obvs stolen from @readtome_)

16 short word-n-picture stories about comic scenes

16 short word-n-picture stories about comic scenes, by some of my old and new fave artists from Aus and Portugal. Available thru @silentarmystoreroom, magicked together (and with a really lovely foreword) by @fikaris_art, front cover by Amanda Baeza and back cover by @tomohernia. Plus the insides are all very nice-smelling uncoated paper. Mmm. Could rub my thumbs and face all over those babies all day. #comic #comics #anthology #rubadubdub

(Also my contribution is an unsponsored ad for @readtome_ haha)

[Part 2/3] CW: Brief mention of suicide⁣
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👉 For US based folk, link to a form to send an email to your representatives about the Adoptee Citizenship Act 2021, that would prevent adoptee deportations, in bio.
#comic #drawing #bluebayou #adoption #adopteevoices #adamcrapser

Thanks to the beloved doggo owner for the loan. #c

Thanks to the beloved doggo owner for the loan. #comic #drawing #diarycomic #🎂 #addedanextrapanelandithinkifuckeduptherhythm #ohwell

[Part 1/3] CW: Brief mention of suicide, child abu

[Part 1/3] CW: Brief mention of suicide, child abuse⁣
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Some issues that arose recently over Justin Chon's film 'Blue Bayou'. For any U.S.-based friends, link to a form to send an email to your representatives about the Adoptee Citizenship Act 2021, that would prevent adoptee deportations, in bio. ⁣
#comic #drawing #bluebayou #adoption #adoptee #adopteevoices #adamcrapser

As the duration of a lockdown increases, the proba

As the duration of a lockdown increases, the probability of a home haircut approaches 1. (Also translation of last two panels is essentially "yes'm".) #comic #drawing #haircut #williregretincludingmyactualfaceinthis

Hello friends, do you have an internet connection?

Hello friends, do you have an internet connection? Really? Oh good! That means that in a few days you'll be able to check out this online exhibition of adoptee artists I'll be in with exceptionally cool people @alexmyung and @nicolewonhee, curated by also exceptionally-cool-person @mrawmrawsf and organised by @ahlfoundation. And maybe you'll even be able to check out the panel discussion we'll be doing as part of it on Wednesday the 20th at 11am AEST (Tuesday 19th at 5pm PT/8pm ET)! Wow, technology eh? (Also timezones. Which are 'wow' for a different and way more confusing reason.) ⁣
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Ty so much for having me Leah and AHL Foundation! ⁣
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Poster designed by @brian_you
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From @ahlfoundation⁣⁣:⁣
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AHL Foundation is proud to announce its upcoming online exhibition, “We Are Many”, opening at @ahlfoundation’s viewing room on Monday, October 11th! Curated by award-winning filmmaker and designer Leah Nichols, the exhibition showcases the works of three adopted Korean artists: Nicole Won Hee Maloof, Alex Myung, and Meg O’Shea. Through a visual language of color, humor, and pop culture symbology, each artist uses adoption as a means, not an end, to assert an evolving, intersectional selfhood. ⁣⁣⁣
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This exhibition was made possible thanks to support from the Overseas Koreans Foundation. ⁣⁣⁣
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#알재단 #exhibitions #comingsoon ⁣⁣⁣
#overseaskoreansfoundation #재외동포재단 #exhibition #art

After a rocky start my time south o' the border en

After a rocky start my time south o' the border ended on a high note with the face-to-face component of the intercountry adoptee zine making workshop @misspotatocrisp, @crewneckgreen and myself put on with the support of Relationships Australia/Intercountry Adoptee and Family Support Service and the Korean Adoptees in Australia Network. Mess was made. Food was eaten. Excellent chats were had with even excellenter people. It was a good time.
Now, once again, it's time to sleep for a month.
#😴

You know, for a while I was tossing up between mak

You know, for a while I was tossing up between making this and a longer downer comic about my mental health/relationship with my parents. Guess you got lucky this time. #poowins #comic #drawing

Fun n blobby poster for a fundraiser gig for @asrc

Fun n blobby poster for a fundraiser gig for @asrc1 a mate is putting on at @cafegummo_bar in... November! Don't worry I'll remind you again closer to the date, this is just here to address the worrying recent absence of hands and snakes in my posts. (Also in the process of drawing this I learnt that that string game from school is called "cat's cradle"! And here I was thinking it was just a Vonnegut book.) #drawing #illustration #poster

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