Knowing me knowing you
Philosophy and commissions, and a question
What have I been up to lately?
Alongside this newsletter, I have been steadily posting chapters of my Philosophy comic on Substack. It’s going quite well, attracting readership and some very nice interactions!
I’m about finished with the Ancient Greek philosophers (Socrates, Plato and Aristotle) and before I move on to Medieval philosophy, I delve into the importance of the philosophical maxim Know Thyself.
For if you don’t know who you are, how can you ever truly understand something else?
Knowing me
It's a chapter in which I try to reconstruct what makes me ME; what are the choices that shaped and show who I am in and to the world?
I drew it a while back (when I still had red hair) but the content still stands:
You can read the full chapter here:
Knowing you
Talking about nice interactions: I got to know a few of my readers a little better since I am making small portrait commissions now! It’s for a crowdfunding of StripGlossy, the Dutch comic magazine of which I am sort of the in-house artist.
Here are some of the people I got to draw lately:
If you’d like a little portrait too, here’s how it works:
1 - you go to the StripGlossy crowdfunding campaign and choose the 50 euros reward (the site is in Dutch, but there’s a small button that says Switch to English)
2 - I contact you and ask for your photograph and some info
3 - Within a week, I send you the result digitally, in high resolution
4 - your portrait will be featured in the next issue of StripGlossy, on the Sponsor Wall of Fame
(By the way: check the video on the campaign - I made that! That’s my voice, and my StripGekkie character!)
You don't have to order a commission for a little interaction, of course.
Maybe you could leave a comment below and tell me who and where you are and what you're up to? I'm here, drawing portraits, obviously - but what are you doing today?
I'd love to hear about it!
I'm Sabrina Pandora. I am a trans writer in Texas- yes, America's Texas.
It's an interesting time to be an American, forget about a trans Texan.
Today my wife Wendie and I will work on home improvement projects. It is how we are trying to pass the time while we talk ourselves out of panic packing to flee our own country, or staying to fight and make a difference.
It seems silly to be painting cabinets at the fall of western civilization, yet here we are- trying to focus on the things we can control and to be constructive rather than give in to the fear and scream endlessly as America slides into fascism.
Hopefully soon some of the artists I work with to produce stories will be freed up to work with me so that I can distract myself from the horror and continue producing entertainment for future generations.
My work can be found at the website for Giant Girl Adventures.
I’m very much enjoying my crash course in philosophy with you – I concur that the older I get, the more I realise I know nothing. As a teenager I was quite the reverse!
Wishing you well from the West Coast of New Zealand. We are on a little camping trip, Molly and I. We needed a break after a tumultuous week. Changes ahead…