Meg O'Shea

MEG O'SHEA

Korean adoptee maker of comics and pictures.

I have a very tiny comic about my worst boss(es) i

I have a very tiny comic about my worst boss(es) in @thenib magazine's latest issue, 'Work' - a particularly relevant issue in this time of deliberate wage suppression and obscene profits. It includes features by bigtime local faves @elerimai and @ourmembersbeunlimited (writing on the gendered world of being a working parent and childcare, as well as a very old, very fucking nefarious international union-busting agency respectively) as well as stories on managing employment with a disability, company towns, the aid industry and many more.

I have been thoroughly distracted by this issue, and if you want to be distracted by it too, you can get a copy by subscribing to The Nib.

#comic #comics #magazine #work

Insta cut this lockdown makgeolli process together

Insta cut this lockdown makgeolli process together and I... Don't hate it. Sigh. Also lockdown, remember lockdown?! My liver is still recovering. #makgeolli #막걸리 #slipperyslope #shitivemisspeltmakgeolliineverysinglevid

1hr of janky colouring for the next issue of @budl

1hr of janky colouring for the next issue of @budlifemagazine, a delightful n thoughtful mag about the many ways you can love plants edited by @annieandthemotions, in 15sec. #process #comic #colouring
(Also I still don't get this reel business. Should I have added fart sound effects?)

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

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

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

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

God I haven't felt so "will anyone give a shit abo

God I haven't felt so "will anyone give a shit about this?" about a post for a while. Uh. Sorry if you don't I guess? Or not? I don't know anymore. I just wish I could draw cats properly. Also my friends. I'm sorry to you lot too. You're all a lot hotter irl. #comic #drawing #diarycomic

Always wanted to make one of these vids. Sound on

Always wanted to make one of these vids. Sound on for zine ASMR 📏🔊😌

#zine #making #process #longarmstaplersmakethebesttripods

#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.

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