Meg O'Shea

MEG O'SHEA

Korean adoptee maker of comics and pictures.

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

[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

Had a great and fun weekend of muralling, zine-ing

Had a great and fun weekend of muralling, zine-ing and beering with some great and fun folks (not all pictured). Bottomless luv n gratitude as always @otherworldszinefair 💖💖
Also thanks to @fikaris_art for arranging the mural!

Work included in final image because apparently there's a tag limit in posts: @eternalproject, @refugeeartproject / @hazeenmetal / @safdarnama, @scottwrigg, @fionnmccabe, @escalator_dreams, @benjuers, @ctyalcinkaya, @marcpearson_, @byashleytan, @a.mawkish.lichen, @fikaris_art, @keithkomix, @bissy, @zeinabmir2040, @worf_episode

#mural #zinefair #zines #onceagainihavetosleepforamonth

Okay, just realised that I've been so utterly dist

Okay, just realised that I've been so utterly distracted doing other stuff for @thecomicartworkshop that I'm co-directing with beautiful hat boy @fionnmccabe this year that I... haven't actually promoted it. So I'm doing that now. That's what this post is.

Anyway, if you have a big comic project and wanna hang out with a bunch of other comic artists at @bundanontrust for two weeks to get it workshopped, pls consider applying! All you have to do is send a letter and some work samples to admissions wizard @ctyalcinkaya. He volunteered for this role because he likes it, and could not possibly drown in letters as he is approximately 10 metres tall.

Don't let concern for Can's safety keep you from your dreams. Not now, not ever.

#butseriouslythankyoucan #comics #residency

Comic made for @thenib magazine, 2020. Today, as t

Comic made for @thenib magazine, 2020. Today, as the first in a series of planned actions demanding labour and social reforms to address Korea's severe inequities, half a million Korean workers are participating in a general strike. Check out @nodutdol's latest post for more info.
#korea #women #strike #comic #drawing #covidcomics

Today is the last day of National Adoption Awarene

Today is the last day of National Adoption Awareness Month, and day 52 of Israel's latest offensive against Palestinians in their homeland causing mass displacement, the destruction of much of Gaza's infrastructure and 200+ Palestinian deaths in the West Bank. To mark it, I thought I'd share more pix of this drawing "Poppy, olive, mulberry and pine", made for the recent fundraiser for @unionaidabroad's Gaza Emergency Appeal, along with its embarrassingly sincere (/artschool?? 😭) artist statement. The writing is deffo more than the quality of the work deserves, but fuck it.
Also a reminder that folks like @bdsinaustralia, @apan4palestine, @palestineactiongroup and @unionistsforpalestine, are still arranging heaps of ways to keep what's going down in Palestine visible, intervene in material support for Israel and maintain pressure on our politicians so that they might be less shit about this stuff. Like, who knows? Maybe aus could withdraw diplomats from Israel like South Africa and Colombia! Maybe our deputy PM might call for economic sanctions on Israel like Belgium's! Maybe our PM might move to join 139 other countries to recognise a Palestinian state like Spain's! Maybe the govt, instead of being all chuffed about issuing insecure temporary visas to folks who may not even be able to leave Gaza and increased humanitarian access, might publicly acknowledge the reason those things are needed at all! Eh? EH? (In all honesty, though my expectations of the govt are rock bottom right now, I feel like even the very minimal shifts in rhetoric we've seen wouldn't have happened at all without growing public pressure and a bit of a narrative shift. Which is a reason to keep doing things. We can't go back to business as usual.)
In other news, using my name stamp on hanji gave me a very viseral and good feeling. I do not have time or energy to articulate it properly in a comic so I'm saying it here.
#toomuchinsta #toomuchinstaformeg #drawing #illustration #ink #문방사우 #NAAM #adopteevoices #freepalestine

Tonight I read an autobio comic at a @readtome_ at

Tonight I read an autobio comic at a @readtome_ at Ashfield Library about the time I read at the first Read to Me at Ashfield Library in 2017 and realised folks might be interested in my autobio comics. It was really weird and meta so I'm posting about it.
As always, and forever, thank you for having me RTM. (Also to any new folks I talked to tonight - it was lovely to meet you and apologies for being so fried heh) #comics #schoolnight #2131

Yes, it's finally time to drink some density rule-

Yes, it's finally time to drink some density rule-complaint beers and watch some comics to launch this big ol’ anthology - compiled, edited and cover art-ed by @fionnmccabe and printed by @pinchpress - at @knoxstreetbar for the last @readtome_ of the year! Sharing their work on the night will be contributors⁣
@vanessaberryworld and @lizzielizzielizzielizzie_, @daily_crispy, @lilianwhy, @muftidays, @mjtaylor_esq, @scottwrigg, @kurt_sorensen76, @zoesado, @fionnmccabe and yours truly.⁣
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Links to book a spot and grab a presale copy in bio, but more copies will be available at the event too 😍
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Aaah man, honestly so excited for this I could spew. In the best way possible. ⁣
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#comics #anthology #comicreading #booklaunch

✨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

#comic #drawing #walk

#comic #drawing #walk

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

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

Thanks so much for such an intense but gratifying

Thanks so much for such an intense but gratifying Sunday, @otherworldszinefair. Sweating behind a table while struggling to do basic maths to get people their change, before immediately spending all my money on other folks' stuff, is one of the things I missed the most in the last few years and it was so fucking good to be back at it. Big thanks to everyone who bought and traded with me too. The fundraiser zines raised $200 for Koroot (rounded up slightly, haha) which is also very cool, so double thank you for that 💕

I'll pop the rest up on my shop in the next little while (or you can just PayPal Koroot yourself at koroot11@gmail.com too) but until then I will be enjoying recovering. Wooo! Wooooooooooooo! #woooooooooooooooo #otherworldszinefair #😴

@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.

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

Do you know any young people between 13 and 16? Do

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

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