artist alleys will save my life - a zine
A downloadable comic
i read taneli kemppi's kerrosten välissä - graphic novel,
( https://tanelikoo.blog/day/2025/08/28 ) and was inspired by fatphobic medical injustice-induced rage to finally draw about my own experience with medical fatphobia and journey through obtaining autonomy and rediscovering my identity as an artist through my own transition. I didn't intend it to turn into a zine, but it did, so here we are.
22 pages, drawn on my comic diary while at a local drawing meet-up sleep-deprived out of my mind, edited and added notes and additional comments later while watching gab smolders play through silent hill f.
this zine is pay what you want. do not pay for it if you are poor, but if extra coins my way do you no harm, go for it! currently every bit of money i make goes into my mastectomy savings, so i appreciate every small gesture.
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this was sooo good and resonated deeply! your pacing for autobio writing is immaculate and very inspiring ;_; im so sorry you had to encounter the lowest and shittiest of western beauty standard roadstops along the way, but im so happy you are where you are now. thank you truly for doing what you do and NEVER STOP!!!!! LOVE YOU!!!
(tears burst from my eyes violently) AUUUGGGHHH! THANK YOUUUU! words kind like this are gonna keep uplifting and inspiring me on the way, all the way! LOVE YOU <3<3