Blog Series
small breaks are big breaks too
Illustration: Beena Mistry
For our fifteenth anniversary we’ve reached out to the Shameless community and asked what the magazine has meant to them. What has Shameless meant to you? Talk back to us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. Read past entries in this series: Melinda Mattos, Marta Balcewicz, Manisha Claire, Jessica Balmer, Kaleigh Trace, Jean Boampong, Denise Reich, and CJ Blennerhassett.
Image credit: Frizz Kid
Yeah
“When did you graduate from OCAD?”
never
i am a failed journalism school grad
a hostile feminist writer
A few credible bylines, a
long lost nomination, and no job
i’m sorry, i have no skills
i just love doing this art stuff
message to Shameless in 2014
pre-graduation but already anticipating
this industry is on fire
i have to draw my way out
“Hi Sheila,
This is in response to the tweet you put today.
I would love to draw for Shameless.”
i sent my Tumblr art blog
the only portfolio i have
Image credit: Frizz Kid
first assignment: a drawing about rice
and the Dominican Republic
second assignment: a piece about a woman’s
first time discovering porn
clumsy black and white lines
not technically proficient but earnest
looking for a home and finding one
wobbly but in kind pages
by 2017, Shameless profiled me
the failed journalist
under qualified artist
unemployment expert
managed to figure things out
thank you Shameless
i am still doing that art stuff
