It’s been a while since I shared one of these. Today’s self portrait comes from one of my favorite webcomic creators, Danielle Corsetto.
Danielle does a comic strip called Girls With Slingshots. The short answer is it is a strip about two girls, a bar and a talking cactus. The long answer is that just about nothing is out of bounds in this strip: booze, sexual orientation, language, dick and fart jokes it’s all there but done in such a way that you embrace the characters as people you could actually know. She crafts her characters in such a way that they seem very real and relatable. Her art has simplified over the course of the strip to a point where it just looks so easy but trust me it’s not. With just a few simple lines she is able to convey a great deal of emotion from her characters.
Girls with Slingshots isn’t your typical gag a day strip, it’s more like a developing storyline that is just funny because more times than not you can relate to it. Everyone I’ve ever shared this strip with has enjoyed it. Especially if you are a woman I’d recommend giving this strip a read. There’s just something about it that everyone can relate to.
Danielle tends to draw herself drinking but had a cold the day she did this for me and therefore we have cough syrup instead.
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