Meg O'Shea

MEG O'SHEA

Korean adoptee maker of comics and pictures.

#drawing #comic #diarycomic #🤧

#drawing #comic #diarycomic #🤧

What an absolute honour to have my project worksho

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

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

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

There comes a time in every artist's life where th

There comes a time in every artist's life where they must take their first tentative steps into Sonic fanart. So what an absolute honour it is that my first steps are for @team_vom's single, "Vore" - a song that is as sweet as it is physically impossible (no, really). They'll be launching it at @_cactusroom on Jan 14th with @rusemelb, @clubcommonband and @kandaliniwantshisbandback, so get along if you're around. #singleart #drawing #poster #imtooscaredtouseanyotherrelatedhashtagshaha

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

✨ SIGNUPS EXTENDED UNTIL FEBRUARY 11TH! ✨ Are

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

You ever had that thing where you fall in love wit

You ever had that thing where you fall in love with 17 ppl at once?
Not just cos they made you heaps hot when they drew you, or made you a stamp, or gave you the most constructive, supportive kick up the arse for that big ol' project of yours you could've asked for. Not just cos of their giant brains and diverse talents and shared love of this weird artform, that you can't get over the goddamn privilege of seeing at work firsthand. Not just cos they're funny as fuck. Or the poo chats. Or the offers to help with washing up or the advice when you were beginning to flail or the feeling of emotional safety or the mutual oversharing or them telling you that your sauce had the perfect amount of sugar when it totally didn't. It was all those things all together, and more.

Needless to say, I feel unbelievably lucky to have been able to spend two weeks at the 18-way meet cute that was the 5th @thecomicartworkshop at @bundanontrust, and the past year and a half making it happen (and stressing out about making it happen) with beautiful hat boy @fionnmccabe. Also very bloody lucky for the presence of food angel @patgrantart, and the fact that he and @the_other_liz ever dreamed this wild thing up at all. (Also @jshsantospirito and @elerimai for tricking me into doing this. Best trick ever. Abracadabra, time to sleep for a month.)

Stamp by @emilouwalsh and workshop graphic recording by @tara_comics

Ty everyone for being so cool

#❤️ #celebratingcomicswiththeworldsworstphotocollage

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_)

✨Recent things 1: The beginning of a post flood

✨Recent things 1: The beginning of a post flood ✨

Along with fantastic images-in-sequence pieces by @safdarnama & @rtwa, and a hybrid piece by @cyalcinkaya, I've got a comic in vol 36, issue 6 of Continuum - Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, compiled and edited with great amounts of blood, sweat and tears (for which I am both very grateful and unenvious) by Dr Daniella Trimboli and A/Prof Michel Eliatamby-O'Brien (@sepiolidae). Based on their research on an archive of multicultural writing held at Deakin uni, the issue focuses on literature in all forms from diasporic creators.

The introduction is free to access, but you’re not affiliated with some sort of nerd institution (no shade - one pays my rent) and can’t see the rest of the issue, the original version of my absolute timewarp of a 2019 comic included in it is in this post. In case you hadn’t worked that out already. The image on the cover is also from a diary comic of mine, which I made at the start of COVID. Remember all that? Oh god.

Anyway, thankyou so much for including my work!

(Also, now having a thing in an academic journal, I’ve reached another milestone of receiving my first ever email from a scam academic publisher, offering to publish an open-access version of a review I’d write for them for the low, low price of 799USD. Which would unfortunately be unbelievably reasonable if the publisher was legit.)
#academicpublishingwhat #comic #drawing #adoption

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

✨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

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

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