Illustration 𖦹 comics 𖦹 design
Based in Manila
Illustration ꩜ comics ꩜ design
Based in Manila
elleshivers @ gmail
Comics
𖦹 BOYS TOYS
𖦹 Short frock, long jerkin
𖦹 Paris, Texas
𖦹 French Exit
𖦹 The Sucker
𖦹 Duende
𖦹 Fraktur
𖦹 Cicatrix
𖦹 Various minicomics
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Boys Toys
BOYS TOYS is a matryoshka doll in the form of a comic/visual essay about the chain links between three main ideas: being a trans fujoshi in the Global South, giant robots, and the sexualization of American military aesthetics. There is a transformation fantasy at the core of highly militaristic mecha/giant robot media, and this can correlate with how we imagine ourselves as trans and queer people in a highly globalized and hetero-patriachal world. A hetero-patriarchal world, which is aesthetically invested in the power fantasies that military and warfare conjures in the public cultural imagination, and in our investment in niche categorizations.
Published in AMERICAN* FUJO* lit mag.
Images coming soon.