Welcome to Alloy!

shingworks:

alloyanthology:

Hi guys!

First post time :] Welcome to a new comic anthology project called ALLOY. Oh great, you’re thinking, do we need another one of these. WELL, yes, and let me tell you why.

I never fit into the standard boxes very well, and over time it became clear to me that most people I know are just as complicated and wonderful. We’re straight and LGBTQ, we’re all shades of skin-colors, we inhabit a spectrum of genders, we’re able and disabled, we’re from so many types of backgrounds and religions and even with all of those qualifiers, so many of us are STILL evolving every day. The box is a relic of the past, and yet every day people continue to reduce complex humans through this unfair lens of either/or.

When I was thinking about names that implied a mixture of aspects, I found words like “muddled,” “motley,” “mongrel” …is that what we’re supposed to think of ourselves?

There are a million points of intersection that form an individual, and it’s time to celebrate this complexity. This anthology is for people who never felt like they fit in a single box to have a space to show off their stories and their journeys, and to let others know what it feels like to be a unique and beautiful mixture.

So ALLOY is an anthology about creating new beauty from existing beauty. Lets empower and inspire the next generation with the love we have for ourselves through visual storytelling. The inaugural volume, Electrum, will focus on celebrating the mixed-race experience, a subject that is near and dear to my heart… we’ll see where it goes from here!

Take some time to look through the site, and let me know if you have any questions! Submissions will open next week, on Sept 27th… I’m looking forward to coming together with you :]

-Der

Hi everyone,

I’m introducing a new project called Alloy today! Please check it out, and I hope to get to work with some of you too :’]

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Source: alloyanthology

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