Meg O'Shea

MEG O'SHEA

Korean adoptee maker of comics and pictures.

✨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

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

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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