This is more of an illustration than a comic, but! Ya know!!! Sometimes you’re cowboy. And sometimes you center your IP (integrative project see here) around cowboys until you become cowboy.
On another note! If you want to see some more cowboy/girl/bug drawings of mine, please come to the Helicon student exhibition “Spilt Milk”! The Helicon student shows are always a super fun way to get involved with the art scene on campus, I’ve been submitting work to their student shows for three years now and it’s always a blast. Come on down to 101 West Liberty st. from 8-11 pm tonight to check out this show!
What is it about cowboys that draws you in?
There’s a lot that draws me in! As a kid I was a really big fan of Westerns (True Grit, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Deadwood, Giant even though that’s not really a Western). But for IP, I’m specifically really interested in looking at the ways that the cowboy is a symbol of “traditional” American values and white heterosexual masculinity, and how the modern reclamation of cowboy aesthetics by marginalized people creates a subversion of that symbol (ie. Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road”, Orville Peck’s “Dead of Night”, movies like “Brokeback Mountain, etc.)