@gabumatt
GabuMatt, Cleveland, cartoonist, furry, VRChat enthusiast, 29, he/him. I fursuit as GabuCat! 😼 Posts here rated T For Teen - but Minors, Do Not Interact! 🏳️🌈🐶🕺🏼✒️ FREE 🇵🇸 !!! Abolish ICE!!! 🧊 Workers should democratically run the economy! 🌹 pfp by HearthFox
I will be doing a lot of class zine assembling work over the next few weeks.
How do I assemble and edit and add to it in such a way that points to the value of the class space and the activities themselves, and not the drawings and comics that came out of that space?
Pointing at the moon!
I learned a lot. I will be teaching this class again and again.
I knew these imagist activities were a match for furries in one-off spaces (like meetups and "panels".)
I did not know how many people would sign up and stick with an online class like this tho.
This space was distinctly magical!
A scanned drawing from a class activity done over Discord. 28 fursonas of students and one special guest lecturer (can you find him?) jam to Icedog's bonk set from Furality Somna. GabuCat and GabuMatt are pretending to DJ b2b on the stage as "DJ Profspresso", and pretending is enough.
This is the first Tuesday in 9 weeks that I haven't taught my dream class, Furry Cartooning for Amateurs.
Here is the result of the final activity, my "Furry Rave" version of "Dance Floor Class Picture" from Making Comics by Lynda Barry.
Teaching this group of furs was as awesome as I had hoped!
VORE !!!!!!
A drawing of GabuMatt dressed as ROSALÍA singing at the Brit awards.
Drawn from memory. I must have watched this video ten times since Wednesday.
I want more Star Trek and The Dispossessed media and less post-apocalyptic joyful rebuilding media!
I want indulgent but realistic stories about full-fledged worker-won socialist societies and post-socialist communist worlds.
Imagining the former is more difficult but more important 4 future gens.
Holy crap. This is so cool.
Here is the final recap video! 🥲💙 We ended with a class comics reading and an adapted Lynda Barry activity I'm calling "Furry Rave!"
Stay tuned for future workshops, classes, and news on how to purchase the at-cost class zine! 📘
youtu.be/_Z2mgNXNYdo
Intetest from is open: furrycartooning.carrd.co
My question is - if you post as a reply every day, which feeds show that as a new post in the feed, and which don't?
On benefit of one page at a time on Bluesky is that potential readers don't have to click on the page to start reading it, and that helps with hooking potential readers too. I think some people see 4 dense comic pages as not worth getting into, unfortunately!
B. Kilban
B. Kilban
A photograph of cartoon drawing of a dog holding a leash in their mouth, pinned to a bulletin board. Text above and below them reads “DIY Dog Walking- Exactly What You’d Expect.”
Oh I love this! "we can be friends"
Furry Cartooning for Amateurs featured a special guest lecture from the one and only @outsidewolves.bsky.social, and he agreed to do a recording of it!!! Enjoy!
youtu.be/qbxE4lXOb8Y #furry #furryart
Mhmmmmm... I almost commented "well now we know!"
But of course, this comic could have ended a 100 different ways! A good candidate for a YCH format or a meme.
GabuCat shows off his long straw and soda pop combo to Kittee
GabuCat shows off his long straw and soda pop combo to the camera man
Someone has said, "GabuCat always looks so pumped about everything" and it's true, and I love that about him. 🥤😼
Fursuiters GabuCat and Kittee Mortis pose for the camera in fursuit outside outside with other furries behind them. GabuCat has a long pink straw in his moth and a soda pop bottle covered by his two big pwas.
#FursuitFriday with a friend and a soda pop and a long straw at Western PA Furry Weekend! #WPAFW
🐈⬛: @kitteemortis.bsky.social
📸: @top-secret-proto.bsky.social
🧵: @sarossuitworks.bsky.social
I'm at FurryTeaParty and loving all these posters about fursuiters, interacting with them and things to be mindful of, what etiquettes there are, and the limitations inside a fursuit. 🧡
A wolf wearing a shirt that says "The Window Installers" fitting a window into a frame. He is saying "ha ha ha... ...Yes!"
A four panel comic strip. Panel one: text reads “I love drawing my scrungly guys at the computer.” A coyote is shown looking at the viewer over his shoulder whilst typing at a computer. Panel two: text reads “But what are they computing?” A close of view of a badge on the computer reading “CBM- Coyote Business Machines.” Panel three: text reads “Making a game? Drawing up a budget? Home automation?” The coyote says, “I use the computer to communicate!” Panel four: a close view of the computer screen, showing a simple program written in Basic: “10 print “yip” 20 goto 10” Run Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip
YIP YIP
I like this too! I do want some sort of pen... I think I am landing on wanting to "de-risk" ink.
But maybe what I really want is thick, dark lines. A crayon would work! Thank you!
💡Idea! A jumbo 3D printed Flair pen that I can fit a little flair pen inside of, for fursuiters to draw with.
Alternatively the Uniball Vision which is a ballpoint. I don't want anyone getting ink on their fur.
If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
tcpipeline.org
Pinky & Pepper in a future timeline on earth, a little older, wearing denim and leather
Pepper in leather with a red lollipop
Leather Forever ❤️🔥
Last night I introduced Roberts Rules of Order to my Furry Cartooning for Amateurs class, and we were able to democratically determine the guidelines for our class zine. 🗳
I described the process a bit here! I love #furry! I love cartooning! I love zines! And I love democracy!
youtu.be/T6BWNJfrdz0
YAAAASSSS! 🔥💙
why
Ooo, yes. Cause if it were once a year and there was actually a surge, that would not be good for the servers...
It needs an alliterative name, like Fur Affinity Final Friday. But who wants to do that on a Friday? Upload-... catchup-... posting-...
Or a pun name like Furst Sunday FA... FA Day?
