Meg O'Shea

MEG O'SHEA

Korean adoptee maker of comics and pictures.

#comic #drawing #walk

#comic #drawing #walk

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

Hi all, got a long (too long?) scrolly comic along

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

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

Hello friends. On the 20th of July I will be getti

#drawing #comic #diarycomic #🤧

#drawing #comic #diarycomic #🤧

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_)

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 #😴

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

Hey all, feeling very lucky n thankful to have a s

Hey all, feeling very lucky n thankful to have a short comic in @the_comics_journal_ #308 - an issue that focuses on politically committed comics, and how comic artists and communities have responded to ✨these uncertain times✨. It includes a super interesting interview with two civil rights activists responsible for creating graphics and informative minicomics for the first party to receive the "Black Panther Party" moniker, as well as a sweet run-down of the Aus comics scene by @benjuers that includes top folks @silentarmystoreroom, @readtome_ , @safdarnama, his work with @ctyalcinkaya as @hazeenmetal, @glompress, @sticky_institute, @otherworldszinefair and the Graphic Storytellers at Work report, as well as literary mags saving space for images-in-sequence and the usual famous expats. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Nice one Ben, and cheers for having me TCJ! #comics

@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

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

Had to go into my Tumblr to find something recentl

Had to go into my Tumblr to find something recently, and realised I started posting work on there in 2012! Such a trip looking back over a decade of creative fuckery and being reminded of some of very shit and very good times, as well as seeing myself fall in and out of love with different mediums, styles, tools and noses. Anyway, this is def way more interesting to me than it is to you, but thought I'd chuck some things here. (And maybe staring into, and trying to retroactively situate myself within, the past isn't the best way to start a new year but, eh, that's basically my practice isn't it?) #navelgazing #tbt #2012apocalypse

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

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 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

👉[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

👉 [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

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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