Midnight Echoes

The collected ramblings of Stan Kramer

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hi guys! this is a comic i made for a final in my comics in literature class. we had to do a research paper on a topic we’d discussed in class and then accompany it with a comic with a relevant subject. my paper was about hyper-sexualization of women in comic books, but i decided to broaden it out here as well as personalize it and make myself the subject and discuss something i’ve been subjected to in the convention circuit and on the internet as well as thousands of other women, as well as give a cue to thought about how the comic book industry as well as the video game industry and even just media in general (all of which are male dominated) push such ridiculous pressures onto girls and women.

also, it feels kind of silly to have to add this since i hope it’s obvious, but i am very aware that there are men that don’t subscribe to this attitude, and am incredibly grateful that these issues are brought to light to people other than the ones that are subjected to it. 

anyway haha i have literally been staring at this for 9 hours i don’t even know which direction is up anymore. thanks for reading!!!

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the Earth - First foray into 3D rendering So I’m finally trying to learn 3D art. Using Blender. I figure that if I want to work on video games I’ll need to know it eventually. Might as well start learning now!  Now I just need to learn Flash. I made this by following this excellent tutorial video from the Blender Guru.  It was probably a little more complicated than something I should have tried for my first attempt at using the program, but I needed to practice at making planets for the next project I’m working on. The result is, not perfect, but promising

the Earth - First foray into 3D rendering


So I’m finally trying to learn 3D art. Using Blender. I figure that if I want to work on video games I’ll need to know it eventually. Might as well start learning now!  Now I just need to learn Flash.

I made this by following this excellent tutorial video from the Blender Guru.  It was probably a little more complicated than something I should have tried for my first attempt at using the program, but I needed to practice at making planets for the next project I’m working on. The result is, not perfect, but promising

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A quick editorial cartoon about the intersection of self-pity, entitlement, rape, territoriality, misogyny and fear of women. You see it all over the place online in the form of Men’s Rights Activists (of whom there are a few reasonable non-misogynists), Men Going Their Own Way, Pick Up Artists, and dudes touting the “Red Pill”, because The Matrix is a good movie. Look any of these up if you have the stomach for it. These are extreme examples, but watered-down forms of these ideas are everywhere.

In lurking their blogs and youtube channels for a while, I’ve noticed that beyond the standard patriarchal chauvinism there is this deep fear of women - what they will do to me, how they will reject me, how they will use me, how they are changing society in a way that does not favor me, how they are making men into something I don’t like, how they are making themselves into something I don’t like, that they won’t give me what I want, and that they won’t give me what I think is rightfully mine. This goes beyond fear of feminism- this is fear of women at its purest. And that, to quote a puppet, leads to anger and hate. It’s sad.

I am a feminist. I think there’s enough ice cream to go around, but it does mean those of us with 3 scoops might have to give one or two up. Also, The Matrix is a fun movie but probably not anything you should be basing a philosophy on.

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