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Courage Before Confidence (Comic #782)
Posted on April 10, 2025 by liz

Jessica Abel said this in a Creative Focus workshop earlier in the year, and I immediately needed to draw it.

It’s very true, you need to follow through with the courage, shore it up with all sorts of things, but it’s so true. The courage to act, to try, to fail, to get up and keep learning. Wishing everyone much joy and courage and softness.

As I write this, I think about Aikido, it is an art that involves a lot of falling down and getting up again. Of holding your inner core and even more impressively, your connection, while whatever is going on. I like how courage can have a lot of softness to it.

Softness, Aikido style softness has been my word for this year. And I’m liking how I’m living it, as a generative force, how sometimes softness can be the bubbling brook, and sometimes it can be the ocean wave!

And now I will courageously post my half thought thoughts, late at night.

Thanks to all my patrons and a special big extra thanks to Kate Webb, Erik Owomoyela, Stuart Barrow, Jesse the K, Brian Fies and Tracey Radford.

And thanks again again :-)

Liz

 

Courage Before Confidence Comic Transcript

Little Liz has one foot raised and her foot in the air, like she’s standing on an invisible chair.

COURAGE!

Before confidence.

Liz looks a little embarrassed and smiling

“I signed up for what?”

Communities of dreaming – love letters to Star Trek

Posted on October 25, 2016 by liz
If you would like more Things in your diet please head over to Uncanny Magazine and check out Things React to Star Trek where we look at love as a tool we use to shape ourselves, and shape our communities.  Thanks to Mary Anne Mohanraj and Una McCormack for being the muses on this one (go read their essays), and thanks as always to Uncanny Magazine and all the Uncanny backers for creating this space for the Things to come, play and be inspired by the great fiction, non-fiction, poetry and interviews. http://uncannymagazine.com/liz-argalls-things-react-star-trek/

Uncanny Things

Posted on April 28, 2016 by liz
Did you know that if you look at the webcomics tag over at Uncanny Magazine, you can look at all the comics we’ve drawn for them thus far! Half way through! Thanks again to all the Uncanny backers that made these special extra Things possible. http://uncannymagazine.com/category/webcomic/ Bunson I’m working on the comic for Issue 10 right now! The cover is a gorgeous one by Galen Dara, click through to check it out in all its beauty (you can even buy a copy of the poster at Uncanny’s zazzle store!) uncanny

472b: Special Announcement, update new schedule plus hats

Posted on January 11, 2016 by liz
Dear Friends of the Things, Our three times a week schedule has suffered over the last few months (stupid real life!). We’re getting back into it, but the struggle to earn a living wage (through job search or freelance) is time and energy consuming. We’re going to a once a week update schedule. Fresh Things every Monday is a can hold ourselves to. Thank you for your support, knowing there are folks out there reading us, wanting the next comic, keeps us going. Much Love The Things

Things Comic over at Uncanny Magazine!

Posted on December 8, 2015 by liz
The fab editors at Uncanny put it best:

Space Unicorns! As you may remember, one of the stretch goals for the Uncanny Magazine Year Two Kickstarter was a new webcomic feature. Each issue, the multi-talented Liz Argall will have a special Uncanny edition of her webcomic Things Without Arms and Without Legs where they react to a story in the current issue of Uncanny Magazine.

This month, they’re reacting to Yoon Ha Lee’s Uncanny Magazine Issue 8 story, “Interlingua.”

http://uncannymagazine.com/liz-argalls-things-react-interlingua/