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foolish child

Dickens stares directly at the reader and asks, "Remember when I said "Happy New Year"? Scratch ALL That."
Geekery Visual Art

Foolish Child #87: It’s Sedition!

“Are you watching white supremacists storm the capitol while eating a bowl of popcorn??”

By Dickens| January 13, 2021 | 3 Comments
Sarai says, "I'm just happy not to be a Dildosaurus Rex anymore."
Geekery

Foolish Child #87: Dildosaurus Rex

“Actually, I know all 100 species of dinosaur and that is not one of them.”

By Dickens| December 30, 2020 | 6 Comments
Two hand drawn dinosaurs are asking, why are they in fact dinosaurs? A baby Dino sits on one of their backs making cute noises.
Geekery Visual Art

Foolish Child #86: Dinosaurs

This child wouldn’t allow me to draw in peace unless I was drawing dinosaurs. It’s fine — I’ll just say something queer and relatable.

By Dickens| December 16, 2020 | 20 Comments
Dickens and their friend discuss the hot new queer film "Happiest Season." Dickens — repeating the famous Mariah Carey meme — declares, "I don't know her."
Geekery Visual Art

Foolish Child #85: Happiest Season

“ARE YOU F*CKING WITH ME AGAIN???”

By Dickens| December 2, 2020 | 10 Comments
A hand drawn panel of a bright blue sky, with queer people dancing in the street. One has a sign that says "Bye Don 202!" There's a rainbow above. One of Dickens' friends suggests that the group join the dancers. Dickens says, "If you can call that dancing."
Geekery

Foolish Child #84: After the Storm

“I’m sorry. The last four years have just… destroyed my optimism.”

By Dickens| November 18, 2020 | 2 Comments
In a two panel hand-drawn comic, Dickens' next-door-neighbor comes over to ask if Dickens has a plan to vote. Dickens quickly shhhhs them, because they are afraid someone else is listening in.
Geekery Visual Art

Foolish Child #83: Election Anxiety

One can never be too careful in 2020…

By Dickens| October 21, 2020 | 5 Comments
Dickens and their friends discuss their attraction for a certain child's television star, but who it is remains a mystery... for now.. (Three hand drawn characters of color talking against a green background in a two panel comic)
Geekery Visual Art

Foolish Child #82: It’s the Imaginary Blue Dog for Me

“I know y’all not in here watching Blue’s Clues like it’s porn. Bunch of weirdos.”

By Dickens| October 7, 2020
In a two-panel drawn comic, Dickens and a friend sit together on a couch against a green background. The friend asks Dickens, "Can I ask you a highly personal question? Do you consider yourself gay? lesbian? queer?" In response, Dickens jokes "Oh, Thank Helena" in reference to the TV show Warehouse 13.
Geekery Visual Art

Foolish Child #81: Labels

“I don’t know. I can’t keep up with all the rules and definitions and the gatekeep-iness.”

By Dickens| September 30, 2020 | 2 Comments
In a two panel comic, Dickens child asks if they can play outside again, to which they respond that it is "105 degrees and raining ash in California." In the second panel, Dickens and their partner stand outside and watch the orange skies of Northern California. Their partner says "The movies always made the apocalypse seem... obvious. This is just... Wednesday."
Geekery Visual Art

Foolish Child #80: It Never Ends

Well yes. It turns out the apocalypse creeps on you slowly, starting oh — in about March 2020, who would’ve guessed?

By Dickens| September 9, 2020 | 9 Comments
Two Panels from this weeks "Foolish Child" in which Dickens decides to go outside to get a break from racist comments online, only to run into a a racist white man in real life who parodies the same comments found online.
Geekery Visual Art

Foolish Child #79: Comply

“I really don’t need to be in my house simmering over the racist comments on violence against Black people.”

By Dickens| August 26, 2020 | 6 Comments
A hand drawn cartoon of three friends, split into three panels, where two Black friends joke with their non-Black friend about how nervous people get when Black people joke about race.
Geekery Visual Art

Foolish Child #78: We Got Jokes

“You know I can’t tell when you’re making Black people jokes!”

By Dickens| August 12, 2020 | 5 Comments
Cartoon of the artist, Dickens, discussing Black Lives Matter with two white strangers. The first white stranger makes a joke that the Black t-shirt she's wearing with Black Lives Matter on it is "so slimming" the second stranger erroneously compares statistics of white vs. Black victims of police brutality.
Geekery Visual Art

Foolish Child #77: Black Lives Matter Isn’t a Trend

What’s the point in arguing with a world that will always devalue Black skin?

By Dickens| July 29, 2020 | 9 Comments
Geekery

Foolish Child #76: You Don’t Need to Justify Your Grief

“What right do I have to feel grief over this? It’s not my loss.”

By Dickens| July 15, 2020 | 8 Comments
Geekery

Foolish Child #75: The Instructions Are Right There, People

Trying to erase the past doesn’t HELP Black folks.

By Dickens| July 1, 2020 | 1 Comment
Geekery Visual Art

Foolish Child #74: Karens Don’t Get It

“Karen” is a whole conversation about: white fragility, white privilege, white women weaponizing their tears against Black people when we don’t comply.

By Dickens| June 17, 2020 | 5 Comments
Geekery Visual Art

Foolish Child #73: All Houses Matter

You’re not worth my energy nor the years being shaved off my life from the stress of having to defend My Humanity.

By Dickens| June 10, 2020 | 8 Comments
Geekery Visual Art

Foolish Child #72: State Your Emergency

“Ma’am, I can assure you that refusing to wear a mask to protect your community… is not the ‘new’ N-word.”

By Dickens| May 20, 2020 | 4 Comments
Geekery Visual Art

Foolish Child #71: “We’re in this Together!”

Coronavirus commercials are getting more and more aggressive.

By Dickens| May 6, 2020 | 6 Comments
Geekery Visual Art

Foolish Child #70: Karen

You… don’t know what the word “slur” actually means… do you?

By Dickens| April 23, 2020 | 11 Comments
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Foolish Child #69: TikTok

It’s a miracle that I figured out how to use Zoom.

By Dickens| April 8, 2020 | 4 Comments
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Foolish Child #68: Current Events

Fine. Everything is PERFECTLY fine.

By Dickens| March 25, 2020
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