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MEG O'SHEA

Korean adoptee maker of comics and pictures.

  • even.little.meg
✨Recent things 5: This is the last one. ✨ Act ✨Recent things 5: This is the last one. ✨

Actual documentary photos of return from Korea trip last week.

#comic #diarycomic #koreanadoptee #vampirism #thepacingisbadandicantbebotheredfixingit
This year I was lucky enough to both do some work This year I was lucky enough to both do some work for, and have a piece included in, the yearly exhibition "Behind the Lines: The Year in Political Cartoons" that's currently on at @oldparliamenthouse from now until late 2022. This year's exhibition includes work by 40 artists including very cool folks @judyk__ and @sarahthefirth, and illustrations by @elerimai. The exhibtion will be travelling around later next year, but if you see it in Canberra you'll also have the chance to have your fortune drawn by a videographic apparition of either Danny Eastwood, Fiona Katauskas, Glen Le Livre or my giant, sexy head. What? You'll just have to get on down to Old Parliament House to find out. And I will too. Canberra road trip, anyone? INTERSTATE TRAVEL, ANYONE? 
(Also if you haven't seen it, second panel is from a comic documenting a phone call I had with my aunty in an "LGA of concern" during lockdown earlier this year, which took place after an increased police presence, just before the arrival of the army, and about three months after the state government rejected calls for urgent one-off funds for hospitals in her area. Woo.)
#comics #cartoons #exhibition #whatayear
Hello, my name is Meg and I have a largely things- Hello, my name is Meg and I have a largely things-that-make-me-seek-out-counselling-after-a-five-year-break-focused practice.  #drawing #comic #diarycomic #dumb
Well carefully curated parental engagement with my Well carefully curated parental engagement with my feelings about adoption, emotions and fascination with poo, it was nice knowing you (maybe). #comic #drawing #diarycomic #himum? #andapologiesforpanel5whilewereatit
#drawing #fucken힘들다 #drawing #fucken힘들다
✨Update: following a delayed meeting and a prett ✨Update: following a delayed meeting and a pretty tense vote, Refugee Art Project secured a tenancy! Fuck yeah to all you non-pricks who supported! (Also head over to the @refugeeartproject insta for a way more eloquent run down)✨

Reminder that the future security of @refugeeartproject at Thirning Villa, Ashfield, will be decided this Tuesday 28th! Petition and councillor contact links in bio. #innerwestsydney #innerwest #artspace #refugee #drawing #art
Zines! IRL zines!!! Bring cash!!! Throw it at peop Zines! IRL zines!!! Bring cash!!! Throw it at people and get lil publications in return!!!! Or even bring your own stuff to trade!!!!! I bet it's super throwable too!!!!! (Also if you follow me on here you'll probs have read literally everything I'm bringing so uh, sorry I guess. But at least we can throw things at people together.) #zines #zinefair #firsthomegroundzinefairsincebeforekoreaomg
Sweet poster by @nobailey
I was going to colour this but my head hurts. (Als I was going to colour this but my head hurts. (Also side note for image #3 - disappointing results except for the mystery carpet stain that was there when we moved in, which lit up like a Christmas tree. Concerning.) #drawing #comic #diarycomic #2022
TL;DR If you are any of the people mentioned in th TL;DR If you are any of the people mentioned in the first image, it’d be really cool if you could share your experiences with intercountry adoption via the surveys linked in my profile! (Or, if you have any ICA/ICA parent mates please let them know about this too. Please?!)
The surveys were developed by members of the ICA community - Ryan Gustafsson, Lynelle Long (@intercountryadopteevoices) and Jess Walton to:
👉 Form a baseline of data regarding our experiences (a first in Australia) 
👉 Provide an overview of historical practices and identify any areas of concern in accordance with contemporary intercountry adoption standards (e.g. if your paperwork incorrectly states you’re an orphan for the purposes of adoption - firstly, you’re deffo not alone there - and secondly, that’s very illegal now and a violation of your right to origin) 
👉 Identify forms of support or redress you might like to see (e.g. funding for an accessible and community-run archive of info, so we can find stuff out without having to ask around for ages. Imagine!)
👉 Work towards a more focused and representative engagement with state and federal governments, perhaps resulting in an eventual investigation of historical intercountry adoption practices (as other receiving countries are currently undertaking) and;
👉 Ensure best-practice intercountry adoption processes moving forward

If you’re in the mood, also linked to in my profile is a print-ready B&W zine version of this comic you can give to mates who might want to know about this. It includes a little list of resources on the back page, which I’ve also uploaded as a hyperlinked PDF if you just want that bit. Woo! SURVEYYYYY! 

Big thanks to Ryan (@crewneckgreen) and Jess (@jess_seeyoung) for helping me write too :3 :3

#comic #adoption #adoptee #intercountryadoption #transnationaladoption #internationaladoption #adopteevoices
You ever felt so weird about doing straight promo You ever felt so weird about doing straight promo posts that you waste hours making a comic to hide all the info in? It doesn't even make it any better, does it? I regret everything. 
Anyhoo, get tix for @razeechapman's KBOX through @malthousetheatre! Follow @crewneckgreen who will be reading some excellent prose on the 9th, and @crocodilecowboy who made the sweet poster for Small Press Zine Fair! Also check out @smallpresszines for zine fair updates and a really cool post about the printing process for the posters. #comic #zines #theatre #timemanagement
Thinking out loud, some questionable design decisi Thinking out loud, some questionable design decisions and maybe some bad Korean to round out the year. See you in 2022. #everythingoldisnewagain #comic #drawing #nye #newyear
Everyone's banging on about the great headshots @g Everyone's banging on about the great headshots @gabrielclark took at this year's @thecomicartworkshop, but I think these are possibly the best piccies he took. Because working on honking great comics projects is metal as fuck. #metalasfuck #notacult #🎂 #❤️ #specialguestlenny
👉[Part 2/2]👈 Tigers of the Korean Peninsula 👉[Part 2/2]👈

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. On the 20th of July I will be getti Hello friends. On the 20th of July I will be getting tongue-tied as part of a Q&A sesh alongside Fiona Katauskas, Glen Le Livre and Cathy Wilcox as part of the Museum of Australian Democracy (@oldparliamenthouse) "Behind the Lines: The Year in Political Cartoons 2021" travelling exhibition on at @nswparliament until the 28th. Registration link in profile if you wanna come along, throw some softball questions at us then buy me a giant scotch afterwards to calm my nerves. (Nah jks I will happily supply my own scotch. And softball questions.) There'll also be a tour of parliament, followed by a tour of the exhibition by the very lovely Sarah Murray from MoAD as part of the evening. What else would you want to be doing on a Wednesday night? #comics #cartooning #thisisdemocracymanifest #ifdemocracyismeshittingmyself
𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟚→𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟛 A fruitful new 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟚→𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟛
A fruitful new year to you all.
#comic #drawing #garden #nye #happynewyear #my2023resolutionismoreworms
Ah, November’s coming to an end. Which means Nat Ah, November’s coming to an end. Which means National Adoption Awareness Month is coming to an end. Which means I should probs mention that the recent comic about (surprise!) adoption I did for @thenib magazine is now up on their website. Which is what these excerpts are from if it wasn't obvious. Link in bio.
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If you can’t be arsed reading it, here’s a summary: ⁣
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🌠 No contact with Korean mum make Meg sad⁣
🌠 Many adoptees, very search for information about selves, much wow⁣
🌠 Hi, adoption as a practice is predicated on unequal interpersonal, societal, institutional, and international relationships ⁣
🌠 Sup, adoption also thrives on a culture secrecy and misinformation⁣
🌠 Well fuckedy doo, maybe it’ll go on forever, even!⁣
🌠 Closure, what closure? ⁣
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Hire me to reduce YOUR future comics to dot points, folks! ⁣
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#comic #drawing #adoption #naam #adoptee #adopteevoices
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