Diigii Daguna

Diigii Daguna

@dengu.bsky.social

Hey it's me. Resident Rat Komiks artist, art director, illustrator and gallery rat. diigiidaguna.com Tags: #illustration #comics

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I’ll come back to this later but i wanna get feedback from you guys: should i ask for a break from my dayjob to do comics? Let me know if this is a thing that people do

Whoa hi. I haven’t used bsky in a hot minute. Hope you’re all doing okay in the meat grinder? I didn’t realize a lot of you followed me on here. I try not to stare too long on social media these days

I sometimes post a bunch of stories on my ig (smorescake) which is the most i can say where i regularly am present (kind of) when im feeling adventurous but ill try to use this account from time to time (no promises again)

Just feeling a bit (plenty) fatigued online. I know a lot of old heads get it. Just been trying to do the work quietly these days lots to catch up on now that it’s quiet

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This is a very good visual for how talking about artists helps us. If you’ve commissioned, bought from or worked with an artist, please talk about it. It helps us a lot.

susie ghahremani@boygirlparty.bsky.social

Last year, an author mentioned my shop on her substack. It changed my income so drastically that this is the spike of orders from that *one* mention last year. Word of mouth for an artist can change everything.

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Never forget, fellow struggling cartoonists There was a time that this was basically kind of a job

Steve Lieber@stevelieberart.bsky.social

Homestly the biggest is that rates haven’t kept up with inflation and the cost of living. When I was a noob barely out of art school, I was able to cover my rent on a nice 1 bedroom apartment with what I earned from 2 days at the drawing board. I don’t know any new artist who could say that today.

I haven't been on here for a while,but yeah so I'm finally settling in a bit at my new dayjob. And might I just say that I'm not sure if americans know this or are aware but let me just say anything that's happening over there is greatly making waves all the way here in Asia. It's certainly...A LOT.

I wanted to respond to everyone’s replies but for some reason bsky cuts out on the notifs to some extent. I hope you guys had a good CNY/LNY this week! Happy new year i love you eat some tikoy

If you’ve never been a fan of plain tikoy in egg coating might i suggest tikoy in lumpia wrapper with cheese and sesame sugar coating. It might just change ur mind about tikoy!!!

Before the pandemic I used to get invited to schools at career day type things to speak to young adults and teens about work and one thing I wish i told them before was whatever opportunities come their way is that their health should come first no matter what

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I've worked in all types of places advertising agencies, design studios, comics, what-have-yous.In all of those places there are varying degrees of glorifying suffering and pushing your bodies to unreasonable lengths just to meet a production deadline. Some even wear the suffering as badges of honor

Before the pandemic I used to get invited to schools at career day type things to speak to young adults and teens about work and one thing I wish i told them before was whatever opportunities come their way is that their health should come first no matter what

there are countless artists and mangakas and similar stories of people spending years and years and years burnt out or their bodies permanently ruined from overworking themselves. Your number one priority and advocator should always be yourself.

Hey! If anyone at MICE bought a copy of the Conversations Zine from Kittybug Press this past weekend i’d love to send you a pdf (for free!) of the new extended version. I made a longer version just for Radiator Comics but i still want anyone who got one to have it. Just drop me your emails!

Anyway there’s also a show/exhibit in Cartellino/Galerie Stephanie right now too that my some of my pieces are exhibited. If any of you happen to pass by the area, drop by maybe?