Madgic cover in progress

[lb_lee]

Cover for Madgic so far!



Printed test draft today. It's 52 pages, covering topics from coercive belief modification to body anchoring and learning to communicate with a wonky brain using cultural detritus, obscure brain symbology, and shitty Piers Anthony novels. Also many drawings of our brain as a goofy cartoon whale who only speaks in pictograms.

Planning to have it out next week for MICE. We'll see if people like it! Magic seems to be in now, but I wasn't finding what I wanted, and finally I realized I needed to just make a stupid perzine about magic and religion, including the useful stuff I've found.

Comments

[the_broken_tower]

Oh, that's really nice. 10/10 aesthetic, the symbolism is fascinating even tho I don't know yours well enough to read it, and the technique is so nice.

That's gonna be SO nice when it's all finished.

- Miya (he/him)

[lb_lee]

Mori: It's roughly based on tattoos we've gotten in the past and hope to get in the future. I got the texture effect by tracing my hand on paper, scanning that outline, and then doing some snipping and weird bucket-fill and magic-wand tricks in GIMP. I originally was thinking of doing the hand solid black, but I might keep the texturing since it came out so funky.

[the_broken_tower]

I'm impressed by anyone who can work magic like that with GIMP. (And <3 tattoos)

I remember when people here used that program... though they also didn't try very hard to learn all of it.

I think it would look good either way. :) But, I'm digging the texture it has. It reminds me of paper and watercolors and echoes of patterns.

- Miya (he/him)

[lb_lee]

Mori: Rogan credits GIMP with a portion of why our shoulder is so shit; for years it was our primary art program, and while we got pretty okay with it, and still use it for clean-up, it is DEFINITELY not ideal for the lineart we usually do. I only got the weird texture effect because I was too lazy to plug in my tablet and so tried to noodle around it using mouse, got that weird texturey effect and went, "Heyyyy, I like that! What if I tried to do it again, but better?" And then I did the white sigil in CSP because friends don't let friends draw lineart in GIMP.

[pantha]

<3

[acorn_squash]

Ooh, that looks awesome!

[stealthsystem]

We can’t wait to buy that when it goes up for sale. Lol brain whale that speaks in pictograms!

[lb_lee]

Mori: We'll give y'all a free copy if you're willing to help us out with formatting for the text-only version!

Remind me, what file formats are easy for y'all? We can do PDF and EPUB with little trouble, HTML or TXT if necessary...

[stealthsystem]

You're lucky! Epub works best for us, and of course we'll help you out!

[lb_lee]

Mori/Sneak: Okay! I hope to have a couple samples to email you in the next few days. I'll let y'all know when I send it. I know our last attempt at getting the alt-text embedded in the images didn't go so well, so I'm determined to try again!

[grahamlore]

We're excited to pick up a copy of this new zine at MICE! :)