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A little modesty, please!

As nativism and fascist politics are on the rise everywhere, a heroine like Modesty is more vital and relevant than ever

Posted byEdward FicklinMay 1, 2023May 3, 2023Posted inMusingsTags:comic strips, femme fatale, illustrators quarterly, james bond, modesty blaise, secret agentLeave a comment on A little modesty, please!

Go Figure

painting of dark skinned male torso, shirtless, hands clasped in front of him; a grape vine twist gently around one of his arms

Making art is grabbing some inchoate idea from the ether and trying wrestle it into physical existence. Always failing, really, but never stopping.

Posted byEdward FicklinMarch 17, 2023March 17, 2023Posted inMusingsTags:erotic art, figure drawing, life drawing, physique, queer liberation, representationLeave a comment on Go Figure

We are not free labor, we are not the product!

person screaming and flipping the view off against a fiery red background

Imagine, if you will, our own queer, smutty twittergram where we share our work and our thoughts without fear of algorithmic erasure, trolls, or weaponized reports.

Posted byEdward FicklinFebruary 24, 2023February 24, 2023Posted inMusingsTags:fediverse, homoerotic art, lgbtqia+, mastodon, queer communityLeave a comment on We are not free labor, we are not the product!

The erotic as continuum–not binary

Top view of tired bearded young man with book sleeping in bed at home

Why is sex, and the erotic in general, segregated in our storytelling?

Posted byEdward FicklinJanuary 12, 2023January 12, 2023Posted inMusings, ProcessTags:consent, erotic, self-expression, storytellingLeave a comment on The erotic as continuum–not binary

The office, but not THAT office

close up of little statuettes of laughing buddhas and a meditating frog perched beside a laptop on a desk

Today I make one thing. I may make something different tomorrow. I close down by hitting a kind of reset button on the office, restoring it to a ready state–ready for tomorrow’s adventure.

Posted byEdward FicklinNovember 1, 2022November 1, 2022Posted inMusings, ProcessTags:adaptability, home office, Sticky Notes, workspaceLeave a comment on The office, but not THAT office

Workshopping Reality

an empty wooden chair in a spotlight on an empty stage

Everything that’s not burning hot like that hothouse, not pushing and pulling to reshape us into our most glorious selves, not utterly committed and vulnerable, is the mistake, the fake, the loss, the near miss.

Posted byEdward FicklinOctober 31, 2022October 31, 2022Posted inMusings, ProcessTags:inspiration, intensity, transformationLeave a comment on Workshopping Reality

Move Better, Draw Better

Expanding my routines freed up my thinking about health and physique, freed up my body and, believe it or not, freed up my art, too.

Posted byEdward FicklinMay 19, 2022June 13, 2022Posted inMusings, ProcessTags:anatomy for artists, calisthenics, figure drawing, himbo, homoerotic art, muscular, physiqueLeave a comment on Move Better, Draw Better

Exclusively Queer?

When you start to engage with the cishet power brokers and gatekeepers, pundits and pontificators, you’ll often get the well-intentioned advice to straighten it up or go nowhere.

Posted byEdward FicklinJanuary 22, 2022May 3, 2022Posted inMusingsTags:gay, lgbtqia+, queer, queering the hero, representationLeave a comment on Exclusively Queer?

Thicc of Heart

Man pulling up gray hoodie to reveal fabulously chiseled abs

How did we come to a place where physique is the realm of toxic masculinity?

Posted byEdward FicklinNovember 27, 2021May 3, 2022Posted inComics, MusingsTags:himbo, lgbtqia+, muscle, physique, queer friendly gym, workoutLeave a comment on Thicc of Heart

The most important part of the book is—

I would never be offended to hear “I bought your book for the cover.”

Posted byEdward FicklinOctober 25, 2021January 29, 2022Posted inChasing the Flame, Comics, Musings, ProcessTags:cover art, gouache, queering the hero

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