Plain or Simple, by gray Folie. (contemporary comic, 2018)

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"What do you think makes art good, Keshet?"

Blurb: a short comic about a plural painting a portrait of their girlfriend and discussing the purpose of art.

Why is it worth your time?: gray Folie's work is singular, using pixel art and high-contrast colors. Most of their work is pretty devastating to read, but this one is fairly calm and sweet. Also uses eyeliner colors to show cofronting and switches more subtly than I've seen other artists do.

Plural Tags: cofronting, abuse intermediate-focus, nonhumans (chameleon people--as in actual chameleon, not shapeshifter), median

Content Warnings: alcohol, implied childhood abuse, and explicit discussion of Nazism and antisemitism.

Access Notes: Short, free to read online. Back-up links:

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Misc Notes: You might also enjoy these other doodle comics about the characters that the creator has posted (haven't backed these up because oh god):

• this doodle comic about how Plain or Simple might have gone instead
• this one about the characters at a coffee shop
• one about emotional openness (CW: parent death)
• trying to pay attention in therapy
• communicating No
• Everything becomes art
• Butches being butches
• telling the truth in therapy (CW: car accident, messed up therapy dynamics)
• This is the part where you'll think I'm mad (CW: auditory processing hallucinations?)
• Getting your wife's binder off
• Biting the hand that feeds you
• Night owl
• Symbolism
• What is a personality anyway?
• Outis (the multiple character)'s art tag on Folie's tumblr.