Holly Sullo

@hollysullo.bsky.social

Professional art maker, doodle dreamer, stingray high-fiver Portfolio: https://hollysullo.com

We report at sunset: it is a rare night when we feel perfectly content, and perhaps even relieved, in watching the sun go down. Not an ounce of melancholy in our heart as the sky darkens. Our expert is putting water out for the birds amidst a chorus of crickets.

Digital painting of a sunset sky: a strip of dark blue-grey clouds takes up the bottom third of the frame, and above them, mountain-like clouds of the same colour rise, outlined in glowing yellow and orange. In the grey sky, there are a few fuzzy washes of yellow and orange.

Happy gay month!! 🎉🎉🎉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Exist, resist, and find time to be your fun little self! ✨️ The world is better with you in it 🌸🌼🌷

An illustration of a dog sitting in a field of rainbow flowers with the word "gay" in the sky

Did hourly comics yesterday, will post probably later in the week?? It’s my favorite day, even when it’s just small sketches. It’s been these amazing snapshots of different parts of my life-

Incidentally, for 2024’s Hourly Comics Day, I started to make a comic about the history of Simone and Hourly Comics Day. But (ha ha) you know how it is with HCD sometimes — it gets away from you. Here’s as much as I made.

HOURLY COMIC DAY. A series of comics drawn in the style of Simone Veil. Hourly comic day is observed annually on February 1st. It was started in 2006 by webcomic artist Simone Veil. (Hey) she’s has come out as trans in the intervening year years, so she went by a different name in 2006. You may recognize her as the author of the webcomic pictures for sad children.Her comics are simply drawn often black and while. Characters are usually heads and bodies with stick arms. This is me trying to imitate her style (kind of a pale imitation). Her comics often concern sadness and existential dread manifesting in strange and surreal ways. In 2011, she held a kickstarter for a print compilation of pfsc. Funding greatly exceeded her expectations. In 2014x after struggling to fulfill the last of the orders and contending with a rising chorus of internet hate, she posted a video of her burning boxes of unshipped comics. Then she deleted her comic archives and vanished off th internet. But I digress.  
On December 21, 2005, Simone Drew a comic every hour she was awake. When th day was over, she kept going. On January 25, 2006, she picked a day and invited other people to give it a try too. And they did.