Floran Bailey
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Biologist by day, comic artist by night. Swamp dwelling anarchist all day every day.
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Abortion and The Argument from Personhood
Legality In America 38 states class a foetus as a person in criminal and tort cases and attach additional penalties to cases where a mother and her unborn child are injured. 29 states do not have a minimum gestation time and confer personhood status regardless of the foetuses stage in development. In theses states if you punch a woman that’s one week pregnant in the gut and kill the foetus additional charges can still be filed.
By Floran Bailey6 years ago in The Swamp
Neo-Liberalism as Marketing in Comics
It’s a familiar sight. You enter the local comic book shop (if you even have a comic book shop) and see the shelves packed full of bland, stupid looking funko pop dolls and done to death recycled trite. Books that sell based on nothing more than name recognition and an endless series of gimmicks. What if Thor was a woman? What if Spiderman was black? What if ice man was gay? Forget telling a compelling story, simply changing the characters demographic data to the trending minority of the week should be more than enough to draw new readers. Right?
By Floran Bailey6 years ago in Geeks
Ten Tips for Writing Compelling Characters
So you want to write a book, comic or screenplay and all your characters are caricatures of two-dimensional tropes so done to death they’re contributing to global warming. What can you do to freshen things up a bit? Well, here are my ten tips for making your character more compelling.
By Floran Bailey6 years ago in Journal
