Comic Review: "What Happened on Thursday", by Weird is The Best
Kama brings us cats and coffee, cats and coffee, cats and coffee!
We live in complicated times. For all the grief and empathy for the state of the world in our hearts, I’m sure that almost every person reading this has felt like leaving the phone behind and holing up somewhere in the mountains. Up high, with no network reception nor electricity, sitting by a warm fireplace because it must be cold outside.
More than ever, we need artists to show us that we carry on. That there are moments to value and treasure, however simple. To remind us to breathe and look around us. To tell us that everybody longs for a tranquil life. And that it’s worth being here so we can seek that peace and we can wish it for everyone else. In cats, in the early mornings, and even in ducks fighting at the local park. In accepting anxiety as a part of life, and in moving along, letting it guide us gently.
That’s how Kama’s (a.k.a. Weird is the Best) work makes me feel every single time. Her drive to carve a cosy corner of the world with her art makes me feel hopeful and inspired and helps me appreciate and celebrate more.
I found all of these things in her most recent publication, “What Happened on Thursday.” It was compiled from the drawings she produced during Hourly Comic Day, an event in which artists from all over the world draw a comic strip representing every hour of their day. Yes, it sounds difficult, and that’s because it is!
Teaser: there are cats. And coffee. And cats. and coffee.
There are also not entirely boring songs in the shower!
The best thing about Hourly Comic Day is how so many artists are connected by the same activity: documenting their going ons! It’s interesting how the act of doing it appears in the drawings because that’s, well… what they were doing at that time. Inception?
Overall, beautiful drawings and colouring too! I’m looking forward to seeing what she’ll bring us next.
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About Weird is The Best
Kama Mielczarek is a Polish illustrator living in the UK. She draws comics, cats, and people and, in her own words, is always trying to make us laugh!
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