I’ve done art shows, and I’ve done craft shows, but comic cons are my favorite because parents get to be kids with their kids!
Side by side, you’ll see offerings that appeal to 5 year olds and 50 year olds. You see parent/kid cosplays. They frolic about with glee as they pass a stall with Pokémon and then one featuring Freddy and Jason. They share stories of their youth as they come across playthings they had when they were a kid.
It’s beautiful. It’s downright magical.
Tinker Bell has become one of Disney’s most important branding icons for over half a century, and is generally known as “a symbol of ‘the magic of Disney'”.
This is ironic because she’s technically is an attempted murderer. In the beginning of Disney’s Peter Pan she orchestrated a plot to kill a child! Specifically she told the Lost Boys to shoot Wendy out of the sky. Yikes!
Yes, yes, I know she came correct by the end of the movie… sacrificing herself to save a Peter Pan. Does that equate to redemption, I think not.
You see, in modern society, attempted murder carries the same punishment as a completed murder (without the possibility of the death penalty).
This qualifies Tinker Bell as a Bitty Baddy in my book.
Fret not, Tinker Bell lovers, she could probably plead insanity. J.M. Barrie describes the extremes in her personality are due to the fairy’s small size which prevents her from holding more than one feeling at a time, so when she is angry she has no counterbalancing compassion.
Would the defense work in a court of law?
I think I started making art as a way of generating a more ideal reality. My childhood was amazing in some ways, traumatic in others.
To me, art is magic.
Recently my aunt sent letters my dad had written her when I was a kid. He died when I was seven, so reading them was more precious than gold.
This part brought tears to my eyes, because I remember these nights.
I keep a journal of my memories of my parents, and other people’s memories of them. My husband thinks I’m super sentimental. I suppose I am, but I think it comes from losing a parent so young – because my sister Sarah is the same way.
This illustration is for us. I know we both wish this memory had been captured.
As an awkward mousy teenager in high school, I was curious about the shiny happy popular girls who always seem to have it together. They had perfect hair, perfect clothes, the perfect boyfriend to go along with their perfect lives.
It was the goth kids I really admired though. I respected their audacity to stand out in high school. To me, who did her best to blend in and disappear, those kids had guts.
My husband, who I did not meet until after high school said he imagined I was a goth girl in high school, and I was, but without the clothes, black makeup or good taste in music.
Horror Hailey is a goth fashion guru. I’m a follower of her Instagram feed. Here she is as a Bitty Baddy.
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Judah: National Geographic ALMANAC 2020 inspired this, in the Science and Technology chapter. Future homes are the theme here. Drones carrying food, robots making our homes comfortable – and our life! It’s all in here.
Mom: I loved the many layers of this scene. The octopus is what helped me choose the inspiration piece. I’d seen the Displate art ad on social media many times recently.
Mama: “What I like about Judah’s complex drawings is detangling the elements and adding the color so they are more layered and visible.”
Judah: “It’s great. I love it!”
Judah: “I asked my mom “If you could create a Yoshi’s Crafted World boss, what would it be?”, so we came up with this.”
Mom: “Well I’m all into Game of Thrones and really would love to have a dragon, so how about that?”
Mom: “Judah, mama had a dream about flying keys like in Harry Potter, want to sit down and draw some with me?
Judah: Sure!
I pull out my drawer of miscellaneous keys and dump them on the table. We each pick one and start drawing.
I’ve combined the images (mine blurred in the background) using Harry Potter themed colors. I love how it turned out!
Mom: “I love Judah’s busy compositions. If it weren’t for his robots I wouldn’t know what end was up.”
Judah <he’s thinking about what he wants to say.>
Well I didn’t make my Kickstarter goal, but alas all is not lost. Here’s what I learned.
My plan for the future is to revisit the coffee table book idea when I have reached 100 Bitty Baddies. I’m currently at about 55, so some time next year be on the look out for a new Kickstarter.
Special thanks to all of the lovely people who pledged and shared the Kickstarter. You’re a wonderful amazing humans and I am so blessed to know you.
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