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Enviro-Kids Help Save The Ocean
🕑 Added 2021-08-11 17:17:23 +0000 UTCI basically felt like complete shit the entire time I made this, for obvious reasons, and contemplated whether it should even go up at all. I recall hearing various people complain that we are in the midst of a cataclysmic extinction event in slow-motion, and yet the all the art we’re getting is basically just same surface-level bullshit— nothing that really dares to grapple with the current moment, despite the intense psychic grip it seems to hold over the general populace, an event that will, in its time, doubtlessly dwarf all the cost of every other human tragedy combined, the emotional fallout of which have all been spun into countless amounts of beautifully poignant art. And yet, the climate change related art seems fairly scant. In the act of making this, I think I may have been given a crash-course as to why. What can be said, at this point, that isn’t transparently obvious to every other person on earth, that won’t have the effect of simply making everyone vastly more miserable? Does such misery induce action? I’m agnostic on the issue, I guess.
If it wasn't clear, this comic was based on the sort of exhibits or flyers you might see as a kid in the late 90's early 2000's at an aquarium, science center, or perhaps as a 2 page foldout in Highlights magazine. (Muse was the real winner, though). The weird textured background on the second panel was made with the prompt "ocean of fire" using this AI art generator, which I then set at low opacity and overlaid with a color gradient.
Sorry, I don’t really have anything remotely funny to say here. Please stay tuned— I know comic output has been a little slow lately, but I’m working hard on an an illustrated novella that I assure you will be a laugh-riot, devoid of any climate grief. Keep your peepers peeled
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Unlikely Suspect
People who know what's happening with climate change feel gaslit regularly by society. I think even something like this, which doesn't necessarily tread new ground or get into the specifics, is valuable simply for its affirmation. It's necessary, I think, to see people create content that acknowledges the full depressing scope of the ghastly affair, so that we can avoid feeling like we're going insane as the oblivious swim around us indifferently.
