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Paul Flippen

@flipworks.bsky.social

Dad, Husband, Painter

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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 3d ago

Happy to support @fieldmouse.press and their @solrad.bsky.social comics journalism. fnd.us/support_solr...

The Support SOLRAD Warehouse Sale!

We need your help to keep the three-time Eisner-nominated SOLRAD running, and we're offering Fieldmouse Press books published between 2021 and 2024 for 50% off to cover the magazine's publishing expen...

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WildStar Press @wildstarpress.bsky.social · 3w ago

How We Made the Moon Cry - Comic Creator @toad-doctor.bsky.social is a queer comic artist from Scotland. His work includes folklore elements, themes, and social struggles. Story- White Stag: Child of the Moon https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wildstarpress/how-we-made-the-moon-cry

How We Made the Moon Cry - Comic Creator

@toad-doctor.bsky.social is a queer comic artist from Scotland. His work includes folklore elements, themes, and social struggles.

Story- White Stag: Child of the Moon

How We Made the Moon Cry - Comic Creator

@toad-doctor.bsky.social is a queer comic artist from Scotland. His work includes folklore elements, themes, and social struggles.

Story- White Stag: Child of the Moon

How We Made the Moon Cry - Comic Creator

@toad-doctor.bsky.social is a queer comic artist from Scotland. His work includes folklore elements, themes, and social struggles.

Story- White Stag: Child of the Moon

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 3w ago

For #portfolioday the cover of my graphic novel in progress, Jake.

Cover of a graphic novel depicting a crosshatched black and white drawing of a teenaged boy with abstract curves in the background. The title reads JAKE a graphic novel by paul flippen.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 4w ago

I just supported 11:11 - A Palindromic Comic by Ashling Larkin @ashlingdraws.bsky.social on @kickstarter.com Support indie artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ash...

11:11 - A Palindromic Comic

A surrealist graphic novel about recurring dreams.

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WildStar Press @wildstarpress.bsky.social · last mo.

How We Made the Moon Cry 🌙 Over 150 Pages 17 Creators 13 Stories It's not just a statement, but a question to you. How did *you* make the Moon cry? Live on #kickstarter now! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wildstarpress/how-we-made-the-moon-cry

How We Made the Moon Cry is still live on Kickstarter and we're getting down to the wire! If you believe in what WildStar Press is about, please help us get to our goal! This entire team wants to see this project thrive and we can't do that without your help!

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · last mo.

Civil Disobedience by Tyler & Wendy Chin-Tanner could use a little more support on @kickstarter.com Support indie artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyl...

Civil Disobedience

Stories of Resistance

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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy to back Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Hotep Heist (one-shot) by Lesly Julien on @kickstarter.com Support indie artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/les...

Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Hotep Heist (one-shot)

Wikipedia Brown, boy detective, has to crack a case that hits way too close to home.

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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · last mo.

I just backed How We Made the Moon Cry from @wildstarpress.bsky.social on @kickstarter.com Support indie artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wil...

How We Made the Moon Cry

A Comics & Prose anthology about how the moon may feel about those that adore her.

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Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · last mo.

Concluding the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 36 Half Staff - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Black ink crosshatch drawing of Fort Logan National Cemetery, with one tombstone drawn in higher contrast, on a blue-grey ground of sanded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · last mo.

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 35 Salute - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Black ink crosshatched drawing of the three shell casings presented to my mother along with the flag at my father's veteran's funeral service on a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · last mo.

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 34 Stillness - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Black ink crosshatched drawing of ripples in a liquid spreading out and settling into stillness, over a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · last mo.

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 32 Rest - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Black crosshatched drawings of my grandfather's antique tools (a ball peen hammer, a screwdriver with a wooden handle, a pair of pliers, and a pipe wrench) that I inherited from my father, on a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · last mo.

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 32 Heirloom - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Black crosshatched drawing of an antique wristwatch with the time set to 9:13, over a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 31 Comfort Care - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Black crosshatched drawing of one of my father's gold toe dress socks and the black boxes of a crossword grid, over a background of blue-grey sanded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 30 A Matter of Kindness, recto - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Black crosshatched drawing of half of an hour glass with a large wing, forming the Tempus Fugit symbol - time flies/life is brief - with graphical lines descending, all resting on a background of blue-grey sanded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 28 A Matter of Kindness, verso - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Black crosshatched drawing of the balance and hourglass from Durer's Melancholia print superimposed over a series of medical monitoring graphs descending to flatline, all on a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 27 Driving as Love, coda - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Black crosshatch ink drawing of a US Army Jeep hovering above an extreme close up of a liquid droplet from an IV causing ripples in the fluid, with a line abstracting the tubes and monitors from my father's hospital stay running vertically along the left of the composition, all superimposed on a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 26 Listening To Dad - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Black ink drawing of a tomato plant, an image of a hare from a Durer woodcut, and a cloth tape like the kind used to restrain my father's hands to his hospital bed railing, all layered over a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 25 Parking Lot - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Black ink drawing of a car seat with seatbelt diagrams and parking lot lines superimposed over a blue-grey sanded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 24 Saying Goodbye - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Black ink line drawings of a 737 airplane like the one my brother flew out in, my mother's Subaru, and my own Ford station wagon, layered over a crosshatched landscape of the Rocky Mountains, all resting on a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 23 Plans - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Black ink drawing of a stack of files, my mother's journal, and a Medicare & You handbook with numerous notation flags sticking out, all superimposed by brackets, underlining, checkmarks, and various annotations my mother obsessively added to every document she received from the hospital. The background is a blue-grey field of sanded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 22 What Optimism Looks Like - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Black crosshatched ink drawing of an IV hanger with one pouch and one bottle hanging down with tubes leading off the bottom edge of the drawing. Along the right hand side of the page, a measuring scale descends. All of the imagery is superimposed above a blue-grey field of layered and sanded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 21 Odd Jobs - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Black line drawing of a fluorescent light bulb and my Dad's complete set of pots and pans, layered over a blue-grey field of sanded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 20 Hopeful - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Black ink wash drawing of blades of grass, most cut to a level, but a few eager blades extend past the cutting, on a blue-grey background of layered and eroded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 19 Out of Bed - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

A crosshatched drawing of a close up a liquid drop from an IV, along with a black line drawing of a hospital recliner bracketed by a line abstraction of the a hospital hallway, all superimposed over a blue-grey background of layered and sanded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 18 Generation of Judgements - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Black line drawing of balance scales adapted from Durer's print of Death, layered over black line drawing of a graph of the survival rates of leukemia patients, both superimposed over a blue-grey background of eroded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 17 Tracheotomy - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Black line drawing of a tracheotomy air flow collar superimposed over a medical cutaway diagram of lungs above a heart rate monitor reading scrolling across the bottom edge of the page - all of the black linework is on top of a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 16 Platoon - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

A black ink drawing of a stethoscope floating above a line drawing of a classic white doctor's lab coat, with four more coats arranged like paper dolls in a register along the bottom of the composition, all superimposed above a blue-grey background of sanded acrylic paint.

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 15 An Uncomfortable Pattern - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

Paul Flippen @flipworks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Continuing the images from my graphic memoir, 36days. 14 Stay Strong - ink and acrylic on paper, 7x7 in. #graphicnovel #graphicmedicine #ink #drawing #comics #comix #illustration #graphicmemoir #art

A black line drawing of my mother's heirloom punchbowl resting on a mirrored rococo display base, framed by a meandering line articulating the nurses' station in the hospital, all superimposed on a blue-grey background of eroded acrylic paint.